The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-25 00:00:00

'll EDUCTION in PRICE of THE
ATlllet Mat —To Proprietor., taking advantage of lb.
Abolition at Oa Paw Duty, hate noalved that as mot atter tbe
lob at Weber. We TAeaabdt In =DUMB TO THREDPENCE,

Tilt INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF Prink —Yoder-
iv, a general meeting of the committee for managing this
toad was held at the Mansion-house. The Lord Mayer
acted as chairman, and there were present Sir Charles Tee-
yelyan, Mr. Alderman Innis, Mr. 11. M. Parker, Mr. P.
Cazenove, Mr. Deputy Obberd, Mr. Low and Mr. Goodman.
The hon. secretaries reportiel that the tote/ amount of the fund
subscriptions received at the Mansion-house was 114.42 N.,
of which Itet,ritite. had been remitted to India ; 2,5112/. had
been expended in the collection and administiation of the
feed ; and 3,366/. remeieed in hand, consisting of bills not
yet at maturity. Lord tenting, the Governor-General of I.
ilia, in a letter to the Lord Mayor, dated from Fort William,
on the Nth of August, writes :--" I gladly avail myself of this
opportunity to repeat, on behalf of the government and
people of this country, the grateful sense which I entertain
of the wale and prompt liberality which the English people
have displayed in coming forward to relieve the natives of
Upper India in the calamity with which they have bees
visited ; and I share in the hope sear:sited by your lordship
that the sympathy manifested on this occasion will be ac-
oepted by the natives of India as evidence of the desire of
the British nation to fulfil their duty to their lotion fellow-
subjects. You will have been iuformed by the Governor of
Bombay and by the Fannies Fund Committee in Calcutta.
that the money received in both plates from England has
been transmitted to the lieutenact-govensors of the North-
West Pmvinote and the Punjaub, under whose control
it has been expended, and under whose directions full
accounts of the ,disbursements end of the operations of the
several committees will in due COlllllO be prepared. As in-
teresting letter was also read to the meeting, addressed by
Jugonnauth Sunkenett, a native gentleman, President of
the Flornbty Aasonatioe, to the Lord Mavor, under date of
the 12th of August. This Meyer of Port Lour, in the
Mauritius, bed forwarded to Bonthay the munificent sum of
2,000 f. as a het remittann, and the entire subscriptions at
the colony were expected to amount to between n.OOOl. and
10,00 W. Besides the 104,515 Y. forwarded from Lieirlon to
India, Manchester has scot 6.400/. ; Dublin, 3,500/. ; and
Gleseow, 6,5001. Liverpool has also forwarded a mem
sgeedingly largo sum.

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BOARD or TH•D; WHITEHALL, SEPT. 24.—The
Hight Heriourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Cana for Trade cad Plantar ions have received, from the
Bearetery r 4 State for Foreign Affeks, a copy of a despatch
from her IfiajeAy'a Ormstil at Lisbon, maiming ••w of •
seam immilry the Portuguese Board of Health, dtriett
the Hart of 81. Nasaire odeeted with yellow fever, and Cue
Pen of Newts surperted of iatectiow with the Name disease.
--Seestee.

contrary on or before the day of meeting.
Oct. 17. 3. Beinum, Upper Hiker street, Portmaniuiare. tailor
—Oct. 17. H. Meyer, Woodaliptace, Brixton, grocer-11 M.. 17.
J Snilth, Goildfont, Surrey, builder—Oct. 16. 11. Boreharn, Wit.
mot street, liuseell,synare, plumber—Oct. 18. J. E. Ilford, Cum-
berland-place, Bayswater, grocer—Oct. In. J. Mantua, Liston.
Bedfordshire, Jeweller—Nor. 4.. C. Gibbs Droltwich, Worces-
tershire, baker—Nor. 4. J. Penne, Kidderminster, chemist—
Nor. & J. Geode:ell, Santhwell, Nottinghanishlns, coal mer-
chant—Nov. & H. Aotill, Loughborough, Leicestershire, ale mer-
chant—Oct. 16, O. P. Rooney, Liverpool, licensed victualler.
PARTNERSHIPS DIPPIOLVED.
G. Parkinson and W. Jiiilson, Market Weighton, Yorkshire
—O. Kerr and K. Bradley. Heading, Berkshire, printers—Lanka
Tony And Mary Winileat. Bristol. milliners—J. B. Shelley and
P. Hertahorn, Langton, Staffordshire, china manufacturers—
J. Smith and J. O. Howson, Liv:rpniii, fruit merchants—J. C.
Harter, W. Harter. T. Monter. and J. C. Harter, Jun., dry-
salters, so for se regards W. Herby and J. C. Harter—.'. Scott
and SI. W. Crawford, Hartlepool and Catcote, Durham,
car;i.:imar„rituf;:eutiitiznrs—.. T. W. Locky
rti&ial rersianands.L. RituaLhouse,.
ann..
B. Whitehead, aid 1. Lodge, Halifax, Yorkshire, dealers In china
and glans—P. J. Neep and G. lake, Leather.laie, Hatboro,
ril7"—A. Dalrymple and J. C. noes, renchurchstreet,
Cowes,
nail Jamaica, West India merchants—O. Jostle, H. C.
balm, and 1. Jostle, Colchester, Rama, Ironmongers, so far as
regards O. Joalln—F. A. itickett and 8. Merrick, Seethinglane,
City, while- le grocers—W. Basher and J. Wright, Aheryavenny,
Monmouthshire. ,maces—J. Wilson and T. Wilson, Goaden-
common, near Guildford, Surrey, tanners—G. S. Tamer, W.
Lawson, and H. Troyer, St. Mary-at. Hill, City, wine and spirit
merchants—A. Collins and S. Hooking, Brewerytrett, Golden.
equare, preparers of photographic papeni—C. A. Ferguson and
T. F• 17114011. HUN all, Poplar. mast and oar makers.
Keret! iII:GUIGYINATIONS.
Preen HAY HMIKIOT. Rothesay, grocer, Oct. 1, at the Comm.,'-.
dal Hotel,
Ermudia spina. Scowie. Suthertaudshire, farmer, Oct. 4, at
Onna'a Inn, Dernoch.

Tas thrs.Poiter..—Much dissatisfaction is said
to exist monist the constables of this police owing to no
opportueity divine been afforded them of presenting their
memorial to the easunaiseloarr praying for a relaxatiors of
the hews el** ea lir Menday. Ageseral meeting win
held a few weeks beck, at which Mr. Deputy Judge Payne
presided, end a deputation appointed to present the memo-
rod to the commissioner. This deputatiou have sent in
several letters to the bead office in Old Jewry soliciting the
commissioner to name a time when be would receive them,
but up to yesterday they hai not received any reply. Un-
less a defisite reply is received in the course of the present
week it is intended. to convene another meeting, to consider
what further steps shall be taken. A petiuuti from the
coostables is also at the present time before the police com-
mittee, praying fur an increase of salary and an alteration in
the chnhing.

CITY bliefilla Cowwiselow.—At the weekly meet-
lag of the Commissioners of hewers, held yesterday at
Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Christie presiding, Dr. Letbehy,
the medical officer of health, reported upon the state of 242
houses that had been inspected durieg the week, and he sub-
mitted a list of 56 places fur sanitary improvements in
venous particulate of water supply, cleaning, hc. He like-
wise reported that the markets and the slaughter-houses bad
hose duly inspected during the week, and that the officers
bad wised 755 lbs. di meat as unfit for human food. Item.
misted of five sheep, one calf, and eight quarters of beef ;
705 lbs. were diseased, Al were putrid, and the rest was
from animals that had died from natural censer. The mor-
tality returns for the week still indicate a satiefactory state
et the public health. Only 40 deaths were registered during
the week, in place of 47, which is the average fur the corns-
wading period of the last five years. 15 of the deaths were
among children of less than five years of age, and eight
among old persons of 60 sod upwards. The principal causes
of death were as follows :. -Pbthisiii,fi; mesentorie diseases,
5,• fever, 2; diarrlaus of infants, 4 ; scarlet fever, 2 ; and
whooping-cough, 1 ; making together 15 deaths from tuber-
cubit diseases, and 9 from syniotic. 6:1 births wereregistered
during the week, viz., 39 boys and 24 girls.
THE VOLUNTEEZ MOVEMENT.—UhI Saturday a
very interesting prize volunteer shooting match took place
between 12 of the sth Surrey (Reigate). and 12 of the 14th
Bnrrey (Dorking) Volunteer Rifles, at the butts of thelatter
carp, Dodging. The match was at ten rounds each, at 200
yards, and tee each at 400 yards. At the end of the first
ten rounds Reigate were 14 points &bead, arid at the end of
five rounds at the 400 yards range Reigate wan 31 points
ahead. The rain, which had been gradually increasing, now
came down in torrenta, and the Docking, finding that they
had no chance, gays up the contest. Private Blackiatou
took the first prise, Private Women the second, and the
third was divided by Sergeant Nicholls and Private Fuller.
The shooting on the part of Nesers. Blackiaton, Worsen,
and Nicholls was remarkably good. Fuller and Rossiter, of
the 14th, also shot very wall.
EXreiirrtoN THROUUSI BeRM•H.—Dr. C. Wil-
liams took his departure for Rangoon in the steamer of
the 2ud of August, en mete to Amerpoors, when he goes
on a political mission to the Burmese Court. There he will
be in communication with Colonel Pli?yre, the Commis-

sinner of liege, and will negotiate witlithi; King for per-
mission to undertake the expedition through Northern
Burnish sod the Himalaya imams into the Chinese pro-
vince of Yunan. Dr. Williams is an amistanteurgeou in her
M,jesty's Gstb Regiment, stationed at Rangoon ; sod since
his residence in Pegu has devoted much of his time to the
study of the Burmese language, in which be is proli-
dent, being also possessed of attainments which qualify him
to nccomplish efficiently the ente'priae upon which he
is Lent, should the peniusaimi of the Burmese authorities be
fortunately obtained. One greet geivraphical problem
which will be solved in tarrying out the proporied expedi-
tion will le the decision of • point now involved in total
uncertainty and obscurity, viz., into what stream the great
Saints. River, which flows from east to west in Centel
APia, debouchie it. waters. In most of our maps it is arbi-
trarily marked as taking • southerly turn, and pouring its
flood into the great volume of the Burhanipooter, and so
teaching the ocean ; whereas some assert that it takes no
such bend, but still continuing its eastern course,
unites with the Irnimoly, and PO gains the sea. There
is not the slightest proof of either position ; but we believe
the more valid sasumptioe is that our charts are erroneous,
and that the latter course is the true one. A communica-
tion, not very lucid and intelligible it is true, has been re-
ceived here from a French missionary vicar, now, and for
many years past, residing in Thibet, who asserts that the
Banapou forms no connexion whatever with the Burbion-
pooter, but continues its easterly course to join the Bea-
weedy, as above described, and so reaches the ocean ; sod this
interesting question will be one of the first cleard up by
Dr. Williams's expedition. The difficulties of the
sew route from Burnish into the Chinese province
of Vona:, cannot be great, as there is a consider-
able and regular trade carried on through it between
the two countries ; and it is with the view to awry
• line of British commerce over the same ground into
flostheen China that the present political mission to the
Court of Am has been undertaken, preliminary, it is to be
hoped, to the British officer continuing his journey into the
Celestial Empire, with the sanction of that court. The
present King of Burnish is not without some sentiments of
eelightened policy, and it is believed would (mob, consent
to the passage of British merchandise through his donii-
Mons, were it not for his natural dread of political and
military difficulties hereafter rising, which might make
him regret, as so many other Asiatic potentates have done,
the establishment of too free communications with us, who
are believed by our neighbours in the Fist to carry—first,
bales. packages, and maks, to le almost invariably fol-
lowed by swords and other aggressive weapoem.—Rnglish•
1114111.

STAFfeItD, TOMMY.
The Bishop of Lielifieid held hit Virginia! visita-
tion this morning at St. Xseyil Chnich. Is the COWIN of
his charge the right rev. prelate made the following re-
marks r—" The subject of • better provision for the minis-
ters of our church is not unconnected with that of a better
preparation for them in their position and their work. This
subject, at all times • momentous one, appears to derive
a more than ordinary importance from the character of the
age. TM people are becoming every day more intelligent
and better informed, and so they will naturally look for a
larger measure of intelligence and of information in the
clergy. The achoolmesters and schoolmistresses sent out
from our training institutions not unfrequently go forth
from them with cerefully-cultivated and well-stored under.
standings, and if they should find the pastors of the
parishes in which they take their houses deficient in this
respect, the consequeoce will probably be one of disrespect,
if not of contempt, for those to whom they ought to
look up for advice. There is soother point of
view in which I think we should do well to
look at the matter. The scepticism and unbelief
of the country, which within my own remembrance
were very much of a sooffing kind, have now assumed
• reasoning and inquiring character, and they gravely pro.
for ttput, as they all it, Christagity upon stis trial, in
respeeT. Itolts skim to be received as a divine revelation.
The 'MA's' admonition, therefore, that a priest's llpe
shonkl keep knowledge, seems to have become of larger im-
port and of more direct application to ourselves now-a-days
than heretofore. The minister of the church has now
special need to be ready to give an answer to every man
that asketh him a reams of the hope that is in him ; for
such a question may lie put to him at any time, perhaps by
persons from whom he least expects it. It will barfly be
supposed that in thus speak' I inn indulging in the ex-
pectation that everyparochial clergyman easy become
qualified to refutefully such views as are put
forth in a certain volume which has recently ►attracted
so much attention, and which, I fear, has shaken
the faith of some. Neither, 1 trust, will it be imagined for
a moment that I am disposed to regard an intellectual apart
from • religious and moral training as likely to make a good
minister in this or any other time. But I see no reason why
any clergyman should not be so prepared in mind, and by
God's help io heart also, as to be ableto give a general and a
sullicient answer grounded upon the views to which I have
adverted. As to the miracles, for example, or the
cies, or inspiration, it surely does not rtiire any deptheof
learning in a well-educated man tomboy plainly and forcibly
bow incredible it is that the narratives in the Old and New
Testament of miraculous facts, simple as those narratives
are, ought to be understood otherwise than 99 out of lOU
persons must always understand them, and taken to
be not narratives of facts at all, revelation being
thus as it were made to frustrate itself. Or
again, bow unreasonable it is to refuse to believe that He
who established the Laws of Datum may have suspeoded
them, whoa for His extraordinary purposes' it seemed good
to Him ; es that He who ordained future events may
sometimes have been pleased to foretell them by the mouths
or pens of His servants? Or that the Giver of all mental
powers to His rational creatures may have endowed monie of
them with the extraordinary inspiration of divine knowledge
to qualify them to be exponentsof His revealed truth to
their followers. Of the hopelessness and wretchedness of the
scheme which unsettle.' everything and settles nothing. I
need not say a word ; for to see and feel this, and to make
others see sad feel ashes nothing more is wanted than a
sound mind ands hinevoleut heart. It is in order to a
better preparation for the ministry of the church that the
exaninatioa of the candidates for it has been raised
to a 000siderably higher standard in this, and I believe in
other dioceses, and the result has been, I am persuaded, a
great improvement both in the intelligence and in the cha-
racter of the clergy. Referring to the new minute, the right
rev. prelate observed that it introduced such • change as
could not but injuriously affect the existing mahouts both in
a religious and a financial point of view. It is right, how-
ever, for me to mention, continued he, that since commit
tiog these remarks to paper I have received an answer to a
question addressed by mein writing to one of ourgoverument
inspectors, as to whether be would consider himself ex-
cluded or precluded by the now code from examining and
taking account of the religious knowledge of the children
in the schools Inspected by bum! He says :—" The
quotation you put to me respecting the new code
is preciaely the question I at once put to the Council
officer on reesprteg the minute, ' Am I toexamine sod take
into Cocaunt, rn reportiug, the religious knowledge of the
children If the answer had been a negative one Ido trot
see that my work would have been any longer a fulfilment
of my onlination vows. But the answer was distinctly
affinnktive. I was informed unofficially that under article
47 of the code I might recommend a reduction of the pent
by not less than one-tenth or more than one-hall for defi-
ciency of religious knowledge or want of discipline. Accord-
ingly it will be my duty to give some time in each school es
heretofore to the general examination before I begin to
take the children's capitation." Now this is satisfactory so
far is it goes, and that too in a most important point, but
this is oulyaupposiug the statement to be confirmed officially.
This is only a permission, not a requirement, to look iuto
the religious knowledge of the children. The inspector
may do so if he likes, or lie may omit it altogether. In
the former minutes he had no choice in the matter. Again,
under the revised minutes the certificates of the teachers
are to lose their money value, and these 11104 t
useful workers are to be thrown wholly on the managers
of the schools for their remuneration. This is a most grave
matter, if it be looked at with reference to the personal
maintenance of the teachers. It is • graver matter still if
it be resented —and how can Root he regarded ?—as • breech
of faith with the existing certificated masters and mis-
tresses, persons who have earned their distinction by • long
course of steady industry, and have reckoned on the annual
payments attached to them in part as • provision for them-
selves, and in many cases for their wives and families. These
and other points arising out of the new regulations have
called forth many "drone expressions of opinion and feeling
from persons thoroughly conversant with the whole subject.
But it, is iinpossible to go into them fully now. I have
brought them under your notice in the hope that they may
receive from our tirchdeaconal and diocesan boards of
education that calm and dispassionate consideration which
their importance donate's, sal that if need be the mind of
the diocese may be distinctly and decidedly expressed
upon them. With regard to the church-rate con-
test of last session, the right reverend prelate said :
We have a breathing time allowed us, but we must not
imagine that our work is done. A drawn battle--so to
speak—has been fought ; but we must be prepared for a
renewal of hostilities. We must not relax in our defensive
measures. We must if possible increase rather than dimi-
nish the number of our petitions to parliament. It is highly
ileainsble on every pound that what we do we should do
unitedly, with one heart and one Land. But there are those
who contend that DOllO ought to be exempt frem the sup-
port of the church established by law and offering its be-
nefits to all, although all do not avail themselves of those
benefit., Red who will be satisfied with nothing less than •
power summarily to enforce upon ell, whether members of
the church or not, the parnieut of a legally raised church
rate. The soundness or this principle cannot be questioned.
But is it well to stand upon ground, however sound and in
theory impregnable, whieli in practice we cannot hope to
maintain Is there wialoin in insisting upon • claim which
we are sure will never be admitted in fact! For none
who looks at the temper of the times, or the view
of the House of Commons, or the seta/ relation of the
church is relation to our whole population, will
entertain any expectation that the legislature will ever put
into our hands the compulsory and indiscriminate power of
which I lave spoken. Wjiether it would be wise for the
church to have such a power, or whether she could exercise
it if given, are questions which it does not seem necessary
to consider. I have no hesitation iu avowing myself to be
one of those who would he thankful for • legislative
measure which, while it would secure the church her undis-
puted and immemorial right of raising church rates for the
austentation of the fabric and the maintenance of worship,
would exempt those who do not belong to her communion
fr contributiue, soil thus take away from them all reason-
able ground of complaint on this aeeount. The present
opal division of puttee seems to have opened a door for
the settlement of the question, which I would fain hope
mar lead to success, through Gal's blessing, upon judiciously
prepared oral steadily directed endeavours.

THE MASTERSHIP OP ST. CATHARINE'S COLLEGE,
CA RISSIDGE —lt is expected that the Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Worcester, Dr. Philpott, who has occupied the
Mastership of this Society. with so much dignity and
amenity since 1845, will resign the same at the end of Sep-
tenila-r or early in the ensuing mouth. According to pre-
sent arrangements the Bishop will arrive at his College-
lodge on the 28th instant. The election at Dr. Philpott's
successor in the headship will take place either ou the Ist
or the 10th of October, according to circumstances. A
grand banquet in honour of the Bishop will be given in
the College-hall on the 2uil of October.
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ditto by season tickets, 653 ; total visitors, 3,230.
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BOYS, Sm. 13.
The affair of last Sunday, when so many little
tri-colour fiags were stuck by the audacious Italian
liberalism of the young Romans all over the front
of public edifices in the streets where the
Pope was to pass, led to several arrests, as
might have been expected ; but an amusing account
is given me of the tactics by which a band of some
forty of them on Saturday night eluded the pursuit
of the gendarmes, and led them a long dance up and
down the Corso between two and three o'clock in the
morning. The Papalino, or Saufedista faction, also
had a party of loyal billstickers out in the small
hours preceding that festival, when the Holy
Father, going in his " semi-public " procession to '
Santa Maria del Popolo, would give gocasion to
such opposite expressions of feeling. But those
devout or mercenary plaearders of " Viva Pio
None, Papa u Re,' were sorely hindered in their
task by the agile and threatening movements of
their adversaries, who thus contrived not only to
give the earabineere the slip, and to affix their own
tokens in the strangest and most various positions,
but also to prevent any testimonials in favour of
the government being posted up until bread -
light, when the foes of lee* authority were
to retire. These are rogcazate, mere boys' tricks if
you will • but they may yet be recorded as showing
the general: contempt for a government whose own
proceedings are equally puerile, and far less inno-
cent, and which has lately waged a cruel warfare
against the schoolboys of Rome. I do not think
the Jesuit teachers of the rising generation here
I will have much cause to pride themselves on their
success in taming, attenuating, and twisting, accord-
ing to the prescribed pattern of meek servility, the
starved minds of their pupils, for a spirit and an
example have gone abroad through Italy, which
even the Collegio Romano Las felt. One bad
feature which has just become apparent on the
utalino side, is the formation of a re-
gang of faction-fighters, or bullies,
who walk through the crowded streets, carrying
sticks, and hustling the known Liberals they meet,
or taunting them as they sit in the cafcts, thereby
seeking to provoke a personal quarrel, which would
end of course in the Liberals being carried off to
prison. The latter, however, quite aware that the
insolence of their assailants is supported by the
carabineers round the corner, usually refrain from
answering the unequal challenge.
It appears from our Neapolitan information that
General Cialdiui has nearly completed the sup-
pression of brigandage iu must of the districts down
that way • but as you know that Rome sends forth
this dreadful plague of licentious and inhuman
violence in the garb of a desperate faction, which
has for so many months past spread havoc and
slaughter through the neighbouring provinces,
you will not be surprised to hear of Chiavoue's
last skirmish on the frontier, as late as the 10th of
this month. It was near the notorious convent of
Caaamari, which has been, if it is not still, a regular
magazine of arms and ammunition for the Bone-
boniet Border Ruffian War. A detachment of the
royal Italian troops was engaged in this affair,
which oost the reactionist banditti the loss of fifteen
men killed and four taken prisoners, whilst on the
National side there was one mortally wounded, and
two slightly, an officer for one--this was on Tuesday
last. As the encounter took place on the very
edge of the Papal frontier, Chiavone, with must of
his crew, got off, and could not be lollowed. No-
thing can be easier or safer than his game of ma-
rauding incursions and fell swoops from the forest-
covered mountains on this side the boundary, so
long as a certain retreat is secured to him by
the French. This is really the state of the
case, and the Italians, continually obliged to
repel these harassing attacks, are nut al-
lowed to catch their assailants wherever they
can find them, but stopped at the limit of this
region, in which the enemy is harboured, recruited,
and armed. It is by the French military authori-
ties that this systematic interposition to cover the
almost weekly invasions of the Italian kingdom is
maintained. For example, uu the 29th ult. a com-
pany of Bersaglieri, having crossed from Caatel
Giorgio on the Neapolitan to Sau Lorenzo on the
Poutilical aide, were stopped by two French com-
panies under the command of a captain, who
ordered the people of the Litter village to desist from
bringing water for the Italians, and then entered
into au &buy altercation with the officer of Berme-
heti, insisting on his retiring at once. The ltaliaum,
however, got the water which was all they wanted,
at the village of San Lorenzo, and peaceably with-
drew. The Frenchman drew up a flaming report of
the affair, and sent it to his commander-in-chief.
Two or three days after, on the Ist Sept., came the
other affair of the guard-house at Epitattio, near
Terracina. In that instance, as I told you, a small
party of the Bersaglieri had accidentally got on this
side of the frontier, but instead of being 60 in
number, SS falsely stated by the Papal report last
week, ey were a mere patrol with a sergeant at
their head. Finding themselves near the guard-
house, or tower they approached it without any
thought of attacking it, and after just speaking
with two of the Pontifical gendarmes outside were
turning to go away, when the six men, four
gendarmes and two soldiers, who were in
the tower, suddenly fired upon them from
above and wounded two. The Bersaghieri returned
the tire, but did not attempt to master the place,
having indeed no authority to do so. One of their
wounded was left on the ground, and afterwards
carried to the hospital at Terracina. This rencontre
was grossly exaggerated in the official statements
published in Rome. General Goyon, either moved
by these reports or willing to make a parade of his
vigilance and activity, ordered all the outposts
near the frontier to be doubled in strength, so that
there was a brisk movement of soldiery along the
road through Albano and Velletri one night last
week ; and divers rumours thence anew—one
talking of a Piedmouttem invasion ; the sewed, of
a Bourbonist or legitimist embarlottiou ou the
shore ; and the third, of the desertion of whole squa-
drons of the Pontifical troops, though with regard to
this last conjecture I believe it was founded on the
fact that eleven of the carabineers rode away from
the service at Frascati, on the first or second night
of the month, taking with them horses, arms, and
uniforms belonging to the Priest-Principality of
Rome. General Guyou's zeal, however, nut endur-
ing to be concealed under a bushel, prompted him
to send a fussy alarmist telegram to Paris, demand-
ing further ivatructious, and perhaps he would
have been pleased with au opportunity of display-
ing a large force all along the frontier, so as to re-
wire the compliments of Pope and Cardinals
on the military prowess of their protecting cham-
pion. The despatch lay fur two or three days un•
answered in Paris, and was then replied to with the
simple message, "Conserve: emplaces," which is little
more than "As you were." It is understood now
that orders have been received to suspend the ex-
change of two French regiments which were to
have been relieved here, though the new ones
arrived the other day at Clefts Vecchia ; but Ido '
not ascribe any political eignitieauce to these move-
inents ; and whether the garrison consists of ten, ,
twenty, or thirty thousand, matters only to the ,
French people, who have to pay the whole expense.
Forty millions sterling has this occupation of Rome
already cost them, including the siege of 1849. Has ,
France gained by it anything of that value, or any
advantage to her true power, or to her peace at
Lome, or to her honour amongst the nations I
The highroads are still very unsafe—l need not
say why—in this consecrated Papal dominion. A
fortnight ago, near Rouciglione, the mail-coach was
stopped by ten armed robbers, who took from the
two passengers about 1,000 scudi. On the 21111
instant four of them robbed the diligence, on its
way to Rome, at the bridge of Elven'', and the
diligence from Rome to Florence was tired at, but
'peeped by driving on fast.