The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20.

Tae anxiety inspired by the state of the
weather is weighing upon trade in every depart-
ment. It is feared that irreparable damage has
been done to the grain crops in many districts,
and that the yield will be very deficient. More-
over, owing to the superabundance of moisture, it
is beyond question that a large portion of the
potato crop will be lost. The food question con-
sequently assumes an importance which throws
other considerations into the shade. Not that
there is any doubt of an ample supply of food
being procured, and at a moderate price, the har-
vest in many of the great foreign grain-producing
countries being, happily, abundant ; but
the necessity of importing unusually large quan-
tities of corn, though calculated ultimately to
stimulate our exchanges with foreign countries,
and to benefit the shipping interest, will be at-
tended with an immediate draught upon our re-
sources, leading to disturbance in the money
market. There is a prospect, too, that a deficient
harvest may give some, though probably not a
severe check to the consumption of those other
articles of foreign production which contribute
largely to the revenue. This apprehension ap-
pears, at least, to be entertained by the CHAN-
cr.L.Los of the EXCEINVEZ, who baa just asked, in
some haste, for a margin of a million sterling, to
protect the public service.

The prevailing uncertainty checks enterprise.
Some branches of our home trade are beginning to
complain. Country shopkeepers, whose custom
bee chiefly amongst the agricultural class, experi-
ence a falling off in the demand, and refrain from
incresaing their stocks of goods. In the drapery
and other departments the spring and summer
trade has been wofully disappointing, owing to the
weather. Stocks remain on hand unsold ; pay-
aietde cannot be met with punctuality ; and the
difficulty of getting in money reacts upon
the wholesale dealers. There will therefore,
in all probability, be a continuance of
complaint in many small trading circles. This
state of things is, unquestionably, an evil ; but,
viewing it in a broad light, we must not onut
altogether from the reckoning the set-off involved
in the saving which has taken place. For ex-
ample, if the weather has been so unpropitious ma
to prevent the population from spending as much
money as usual upon dress, there must have been
money saved from personal expenditure.
The accounts from the textile manufacturing
districts report little absolute falling off in employ-
ment, but a check to business. At Manchester,
notwithstanding the advance in the price of cotton,
the market for cotton goods has continued flat, and
the Milk of the business transacted has been
at a further concession in price. The advice.
from India and China are still discouraging.
The woollen interest is relatively in a better
position than the cotton. Spinners and manufac-
turers, and therefore the workpoople, are in
nearly all instances fairly employed. At Lei-
cester, in the hosiery department, there are some
shipping orders in hand, partly, we believe, for
!tine:lea, which is already taking our goods in
exchange for cotton and corn ; and, as some army
contracts are likewise in course of execution, the
industry of the place is well engaged. The re-
port from Nottingham, however, is much less
satisfactory, a good deal of machinery being at a
standstill, and a considerable number of opera-
tives, both in the lace and hosiery branches, out
of work.

The accounts from the hardware districts are
rather gloomy. At Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and the contiguous towns, trade has slackened, the
demand both fur home consumption and exporta-
tion being below the average.
A feature of the week has been an animated
demand for cotton at li►erpool, leading to an ad-
vance in price and large sales. The computed
stock is now reduced to 1,157,160 bales, but is
still very large compared with that held at the
corresponding date of last year, viz., 658,910
hales. It would appear, too, that the demand
has been to a considerable extent speculative,
and based upon no stronger foundation than the
receipt of less favourable, but perhaps interested
reports respecting the growing crop in America.
At a time when so large a quantity of cotton is
held on borrowed money we cannot help thinking
that the course of the market will be regulated
principally by that of the money market. If
money become scarce and dear, the position of the
holders of cotton will become difficult.

The flatness of the English funds has latterly
attracted attention. Many people have an abiding
faith in the moveinciita of Consols as a poli-
tical and financial barometer ; and a fall in
the price is sufficient to make them
gloomy. It cannot be denied that the
funds are at present prejudiced by consideration',
such as those connected with the state of the crops
and of foreign politics, which must also have an
influence upon trade generally. But the heavi-
ness of Consols is exceptionally aggravated by cir-
cumstances which need not necessarily excite mis-
givings in C0111.113611:1A1 circles. As we have fre-
quently pointed out, the funds are kept down Ly
cumpetition of other securities. During the
week just closed a large assurance corporation is
stated to have sold a considerable amount of
British Government stock with a view to
re-investment in Indian Government securities,
which arc considered to Le equally safe ; and this
is only one instance out of many. Moreover, it
money la not absolutely drawn out of the funds, it

is deterred from going into
of rival investments. On

Indian Railway Company
=Mica sterling in hard cash

account at the Bank of

sale of Five per Cent. Bonds,.

4.i54 interest Of which are alike _
byl szeRZTARY of &TM for INDIA
be gleimoil. The sum required, according to the
terms of the prospectus, was only about 350,0001.,
and the fact that no large a proportion of the
holders preferred instantly to pay up in full proves
that they are bond fide investors. We may thus
form an ides of the way in which these new secu-
rities compete with Consols, by forcing forward
the reserves of intending investors. It is per
ceived, also, that there will be plenty more new
stocks, which, to be taken up, must be rendered
relatively more tempting than Consols. The re-
quirements of Government are excessively heavy,
and must be satisfied.

!Me (rant.

BALMORAL, AUGCST 17.

The birthday of the Duchess of •Kant erns cele-
brated quite privately at Balmoral without any of the usual
festivities, in consequence of the late melancholy death of
her royal hiihnesn's sitter.

Despatches were bent ne Saturday from the Colonial-office
to the Governors of Caoada, Gibraltar, the Mauritius,
Ceyloo, Hung Moog, Labuan, Australia, and to the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian bawds.

Their Royal Highneesee the Duchean of Cam-
bridge and the Homes Mary, accompanied by the Heredi-
tary Grand Duke and Onual Duchess of Mecklenbnrgh-
Strel it; and attended by lady Caroline Cunt, left Cambridge
Cottage, Key, on Satovday last, to honour the Duke and
Dueness of Marlborough by a viva of several days at Blen-
heim Palace, Oxfordshire.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received at
dinner on Saturday last, at their residence in Piccadilly, his
Excellency the Austrian Minister, his Excellency the Por-
tuguese Minister, the Duchess of Inverness and Miss Gore,
the Earl and Countess De Grey and Ripon, the Earl of
Shelburne, General Lord Clyde. Viscount Jocelyn, Lord
and Lady Harriet Ashley, Lady William Russell, the
Bight Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney and
Mrs. Herbert, Colonel the Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Hon. Fre-
derick Brag, and Mr. C. Remelt Lady Palmerston, later
in the evening, received a select circle of friends, including
his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, the Duke of Ar-
gyll, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Count Corte., the Lord
Chancellor and the Hon. Misses Campbell, Lord Redesdale
and the Hon. WIN Mitford, the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone, Baron Lionel de Rothschild and Mies de Roths-
child, &c.

The Marquis of Bristol has returned to town
from Pencarrow, the oat of lady Nokoworth.

The Maniuli of Sligo has left Penoarrow, Corn-
wall, for hie seat ;n Ireland.

The Earl of Coventry has joined the circle visit-
ing the Duke and Dothan a Richmond at Gordon Cattle,
Fochabere, N B.

The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliarn, who during
the peat meth have Lees re sleet at lhel.• meat, Melton,
in the county Wicklow, are expected to leave there this
week, for Wentworth House, Yorkshire.

Lord and Lady John Rumen a•Aved at Aber-
geldie Castle on Thrnelsy evening.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss
Copley have left tows for Folkestone, at which watering-
place they purpose to reside about two months. The noble
and learned lent is is excellent health.

The Lord Chief Justice of England is at prewut
sojourning at Dalehuilly House, enjoying the Fore e'd
bracing air of Ba !epoch, and the amusement of grouse
shooting.

On Thursday Wt Lord and Lsdy Willoughby
d'Erasby, Rod tbs Hon. Gilbert Heathoote, M.P., emir .3
et Drummond Castle, where they iuteod to reside during
the autumn.

Lord Hubert de Burgh, after a abort leave of
absence from Tarim, has left town on his return to rea...ue
his diplomatic duties in that nipital.
Viscount Crichton, eldest Non of the Earl and
Counter.; Erne, will attain his 21st year next month, to
celehnite which event extensive preparations we in progress
at Crum. A large number of the tenantry are invited to
partake of the hospitality of the noble earl, and wish health
and longevity to their future landlord. A regular fire
eitairip,tre, on a scale but rarely paralleled in inland, will
characterise the OCCSAiOC.

Lord Derby, on the occasion of the laying of the
fmulation stone of an iedustrial ragged school sod church
at Kirkdtle, near Liverpool, on liaturday, delivered a
speech of considerable length on the importance of the
ragged school movement.

Doajetlward Dome, the seat of the Dowager
Marchioness of Lothian, searJedbargh, his been let for the
antumn months to Lord Dunfermline.

Prince Lucien Bonaparte has been in Lincoln-
shire during the last few days. The handsome pariah
church ci Hostas, case of the noblest ecclesiastical edi•
Ices is the (malty, particularly attracted the atten-
tion of the prince, as did the venerable cathedral of
Lincoln. The prince, who travels inrog., seems very
amiduous in collecting all the information be can on the
peaceful topics, science and art, to which his mind Las long
been devoted.

A bronze statue of the late Sir John Franklin ill
sheet to be erected at Bpilaby, Lincolnshire. The statue
will be placed on a gtenite pedestal. The Arctic hero was
born at fipilaby, end hence the townspeople are anxious to
pay a tribute of respect to Ins memory.

The Queen ham appointed the Rev. Evan Nepean,
Minister of Grosvenor Chapel, to the rscant Canonry in
Westminster Abbey.

Mr. Sandford, now unpaid attsch4 to her Majesty's
Embarsy at Par's (and temporarily attached at Frankfort),
is appuiutal unpaid attach& at Turin. Lord Edward
Maar, now unpaid attaché at Vienna, is appoint.' unpaid
attache at Madrid.

A few days before her Majesty's arrival at Bal-
moral the Electric Telegraph Ccalpany wed the ear
meek:lo,4oe by telegraph between the eagle cad the metro-
poll.. Message* can now be want direct from Landau to
Balmoral without detention at any of the intermediate
stations. The wire* are in daily u.e.

Account. from Cork announce the sadden death
by apoplexy, it is supposed, of Colonel Reynell Pack, C. 8.,
hall-1w of the Pulliam sad del uty-quertarmarter-geberal
of the seuth-estate district.

It is stated that the Prince and Princess Frederic
'Mises will go to the sea-bathing place of habits, in the
island of keys, on the Ist of September, and after a short
readers. there his royal highness will return to Berlin to
be present at some military meantime'. On the lath Sep-
tember hie royal highness will reconduct the princes' to
Pota4am, and on the 24th they will leave Go a visit to the
ooart at Coburg, where they will make during the stay
tbsew of her Majesty Queen ViCUMII4

The King of Denmark has returned from hie
visit to the isles& on the western coast of Schleswig, and
los sobs for a time taken op hi abode at the castle of
Oisekstvarg in the vicinity of Flensburg, where his Majesty
ben lately been giving a splendid Pt* in celebration of the
tenth annivereary of his roor6anatic marriage with the
Countess Danner.

The Espero of Turin says that the Duke de
Charm:* has resigned the connuissios whia he had accepted
hi tha klardmina army at the time of the war against
Agate* oe the ground that ha cannot draw a sword against
his relatioe, the King of Naples.

- .
M. Guilin, the celebrated French marine painter,
is now airing the Let teach to • painting which represents
the arrival et the Emperor Napoleoe at Genoa. Another
ef his paintings, "The !Merriam between Queen Victoria
and the Emperor Naisilisou in the Harbour of Cherbourg,"
has beam sent to London fur exhibition. These two paint.
fey have been purchased by the Emperor.
The fulluwing arrangements will take place in the
Metropolitan Poll., Courts consequent on the death of Mr.
'lamina]: Mr. Maniifiehl, of Worship•etrret, will succeed
Mr. Ituninill at the Maryleboae Court ; awl Mr. Alexander
A. Knox lIILA been appointed to the vactuesy caused by the
transfer of Mr. Yearlitisb

NAPLES.
NAP /.L Awns: 18.
Count and Countess Aquila have arrived at Mar-
seilles on board a Brazilian corvette, escorted by a
Ne►politan steamer.
They will leave this evening for Paris and
London.

GENOA, Amon 18.

News received from Naples states that Colonel
Coleus, with 4,000 volunteers, lad quitted Taor-
mina and taken the direction of the mainland.

RIII3BLL

Alarming accounts have been received in St.
Petersburg of the appearance of locusts in some of
the southern provinces ; the wheat crop has suf-
fered most from their ravages, especially in the
government of nelson. It is remarked that this
year, for the first time, the locusts have not attacked
the flax fields.

gruous, is one of the most remarkable structures
in this metropolis. Even the hostile critics, who
object that the various ornaments do not harmonise
with each other, acknowledge their separate beauty.
Within five minutes walk of the Fontaine St.
Michel is the famous marble fountain, exquisitely
restored, of Jean Goujou, called the Fontaine des
Innocents, and now standing in the centre of a
verdant square, into which has been transferred,
as if by magic, the old fruit market—the Covent
Garden of Paris.
PARIS, SATURDAY Emma.
The Bourbon journal, the Gazette de France, has
the impudence to publish, with much detail and
circumstance, an account of Garibaldi's having been
taken prisoner by a Neapolitan ship. This story
comes in the form of a letter from Naples, dated
August 11, which sets out by mentioning,
"only as a rumour," that he was taken
when on board the Sorrento by his Majesty's
ship Tancrecii, but in a postscript the scrupulous
correspondent says that the news of the capture is
" positively.true," and that it was effected by
Colonel Rodriguez at Villa San Giovanni, and he
goes on to recommend most earnestly that Gari-
baldi's head should be out off without delay. The
" enormous lying" to which the friends of Bombe,
habitually have recourse is so well known that these
startling statements of the Gazette have not excited
the least attention.
Bullier's Correspondence—not by any means a re-
volutionary organ—states as an undoubted fact that
out of his army of 20,000 men, General de Lamo-
ricibre can reckon at most upon the fidelity of 7,000
or 8,000 gendarmes and foreigners ; all the rest
would go over to Garibaldi on the first opportunity.
It is announced that Generals Lebceuf and From-
sard will accompany the Emperor on his excursion
to Algeria for the purpose of assisting his Majesty
in a military survey of various parte of the Medi-
terranean coast. The Emperor, it is said, thought
at one time of taking with him the entire board of
national defences, with its president, Marshal Niel,
but he ultimately resolved to be satisfied with two
members only. This detail undoubtedly lends an
additional pivancy to his voyage.
At the opening of the Bourse the rise of yester-
day was maintained, and the Rents subsequently
improved to 68.20, being 10c. higher than the last
closing quotation ; in the afternoon, however, there
were disquieting rumours about barricades at
Naples, the flight of the King, and so forth, under
the influence of which the Route dropped to 68.5
for cash and 87.95 for account, being a fall of bc.
and 15c. Mubilier fell 7.50. Railways left off at
nearly yesterday's prices.
M. de Lamartine has just published a paper with
the heading, "Garibaldi, Piedmont, and Italy,"
which will be read with curiosity after his long ab-
stinence from politics.
The Irish deputation appointed to present Mar-
shal M`Malion with his subscription sword, is
expected here next week under the guidance of
The O'Donoghue, who is represented as " one of the
most distinguished members of the British parlia-
ment."

GARIBALDI TO THE WOMEN OF SICILY.

According to a letter in the Prase, the want of
self-reliance and persevering energy of the men of
Sicily has occasioned Garibaldi some disappoint-
meet, and has led him to appeal to the women in
the following proclamation :

Liberty ! the most precious gift of Providence to peoples,
has been ;mined for Sicily, thanks to the manly resolution
of the Sicilians, and the generous aid of their -brethren of
the continent. Liberty, difficult to pin, is more difficult to
keep, as all Italy for ages has experieneed to her cost.
Sicily is such a country that there is palmed in her cam to
recur to foreign histories to And examples of all kinds of
civic virtues, sod the women there have at all times die-
played a courage which has estoniehed the world. From
the women of Syracuse, who cut off their themes to make
ryes of them in the old Roman days, to those of Miwaine,
who encouraged their relatives to attack a lxonleulling host,
there ass valiant deeds of this sex in this island. The
Vespers, also, en event unparalleled in the history of
nations, maw the fair islanders lighting by the side of the
combatants for national independence.
I myself (I recall the occasion with emotion), in denouncing
from the Palace of Palermo to this generous people the
humiliating pretensions of their tyrant, heard a groaning
repeated by the women who crowded the halconiee, deep
1:711to turn an army pile, and that groaning was the
1-essitenos of tyranny.
Sicily is free, it is true ; • single citadel only remains in
the power of the enemy ; but eleven years ago, Sicilian valour
achieved the same result ; and yet that free land, through
not having chosen to make a last effort, fell hack into
slavery, was trodden once more under merestary feet, and
brought to a worse condition than before the glorious revolu-
tion. Demand gracious women of Sicily, hear the voice of the
man who sincerely loves your beautiful country, to which
be is bound by the affection of his whole life. lie eats of
you nothing fur himself, nothing for others ; but for the
common fatherland he make your powerful assistance. Call
to arms the inhabitants of this island, and shame those who
cling to their mother's or sweetheart's aprometrings.
La Cairoli, of Pavia, a rich, noble, and beloved matron,
had four eons. One died at Varese on the body of an
Austrian whonill he had killed; the gilded, Belle.
detto, you have at Palermo, scarred with the
wounds he received at Calatatimi and Palermo ;
the third, Enrico, lives, though Ma skull was split open in
three battles ; tout the fourth has been sent to join the
same array by that ioromparable soother. Women, ae
us your sons. your lovers. Few—the struggle will be
end doubtful, sod full of danger tor all I Masy—we
conquer without battles: andou will see realised the
hopes of twenty generations of Italians ; and I shall restore
to you your dear one, bronzed by the battle-fiehl, crowned
with the aureole of victory. and bleated even by those
enslaved and suffering peoples who have sent forth their
sons to win hack from you your country.
Manna, August 3. G. GAIMIALDI.

THE PAPAL LOAN IN AUSTRIA.

The•Nasione of Florence publishes the following
despatch, in which the Papal Nun.lo at Vienna makes
known to ecirdinsl Antouelli the result of his efforts for the
sneers of the Boman loan in Austria, and where, notwith-
Minding the boasts of the Giornale ill Roma that all the
loyal catholic nations vied with each other in to
and their offeriugs to the Pope, only a COW vely small
am was suhscrilld for:

" Very Ve3;;aiieinioenee,—ln conformity with the
Aden 000taiued in your despatch, No. 12,231, I madder
it my duty to announce to you that the sums subscribed for
the Kew Pontifical loan may amount approximately to an.
million of frame. The result certainly is out very inagui.
&cot, but it was easy to foresee it : the empire is, as may
be affirmed, entirely exhausted. The voluntary or Jawed
offerings for the war of last year, the national loan of 2C3
million of florins, of which only two-fifths could be real.
nod ; the charge of from 30 to 34 per cent. for exchanging
into specie • the scarcity of provisions in Croatia,
papas
Dalmatia, and Istria ; the political excitenieut which exists
I. Hungary and Gallica , in coosequence of their apirations
after national indepeodenoe ; the example of Italy, and the
diamiareging news sent from Rome to the Amato di/ Peyote,
the catholic journal of Vienna—all these muntl, physioal,
and political muses have contributed to render the sums.
of ties Papal loan most difficult. Among the richest
chapters of Hungary, and particularly those of Agria and
Albancia, not one would subscribe, and it has been the
lame with the greater part of the monasteries and religious
corporations. From the preceding details, It is easy to
comprehend that the hankers could not Ammo of the
remainder of the provisional titles which had been confided
and sent to me from Bruesela ; and that the indefinite ex.
tension of the time for subscribing beyond the lfith July
will not be attended with any good result."

Tot. NATION IN RUSSIA. —A letter from
in the A ggebree Otreetir, soya :—" The government is still
very severe ill religious matters. Recently, aM. Tokarski,
a Roman catholic', married a Russian youeg lady of the
Creek church, hut the priest who performed the ceremony
hart to make them sign a written engagement to bring up
their children in the orthodoz religion. When a child Mae
born, M. Tokarski had it baptised in the catholic chunk.
That fact was denounced to the authorities, and iu virtue of
an imperial ukase just issued the priest has been kiwi..
pirated as a simple *Wier in the army, and U. Tuharslii
has been thrown into prison and there remains.

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While on the subject of the last ;
improvements in Paris, I must mention that two of
large a proportion of the is in danger, an appeal to the whole Catholic pope-
the most remarkable instances are within a short of
op to pay Up in full proves lation of the world, made by the bishops and clergy,
walk of St. Germain l'Auxerrois. The new foun- fr
investors. We may thus has only produced enough to maintain an army of taro of St. Michel, although criticised as incon- to
in which these new _ 26,000 men for three or four months. ev