The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-07 00:00:00

THE GARIBALDI SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Mr. W. H. Afthiiiit has received the following
/glee from Garibaldi:

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CAPMA, JAN. 26, ISM.
Mr. Ashurst,—Our friend Vecchi informs me that he
has heard from Mr. Oravdurd that you desire to have my
"iguana( to the antbosisation given you by him, as niy
Ade-de-aimp, to call in as collector•general any and all the
nuns subscribed in behalf of Italy by your generous
countrymen, o( whatever city. I therefore authorise you
to do this,lo order that whatever money may be subscribed
in future for this purpose may be added to that you have
already collected. And I desire that this expression of
my wish .h add owe as • nil" aid guide to thou
various committees either now audios or likely
to be instituted. And here I ought to state that
I have never drawn any draft upon those beams ,
who bare received sums of money in my name. The sums
I have nmaffeed from the patriots of your country have
beeeladividnell payment' or offerings exclusively. I will,
bowers, inquired Dr. Bertani whether those gentlemen
and the hoods and Manchester committees have sent sums'
to him direct.
• •

Colonel I'eard has my esteem, both as a gentleman and as.
a Soldier. His officers did their duty. There might have
bees beater discipline maintained among the men. I know
it. They came late. But they made ample amends for this
defect, not their own, by the brilliant courage they dis-
played in the slight engagements they shared with us
near the Volturno, which enabled me to judge bow
precious an assistance they would hove rendered us had
the-war of liberation remained longer in my hands.
In every way the English volunteers were a proof of the
good will borne by your noble nation towards the liberty
and independence of Italy. And I believe your generous
country—which I so much love and respect—will never
refuse us her contingent whether of arms, men, or money,
in testimony of these qualities by which she is distinguished,
and which have made her the first nation of the civilised
world.

Accept, honoured Mr. Aahurst, the cement aasuraime
of my grateful friendship, and always command your

G. GAkIBALDL

SIELITIRE OP GUNPOWDZR IN TAN CITY.
On Tuesday morning the Lord Mayor received
an anonymous letter, addressed to him at the Mansion
House, in which the writer stated he had reason to believe
that • large quantity of gunpowder, far beyond the amount .
permitted by law to be In the possession of either • dealer
or • non-&aler in the article, was then lodged in a
house in the Old Bailey, which be indicated. The chief '
(nitrate lost no time in communicating with the City Com-
missioner of Police on a circumstance so suggestive of alarm.
had forthwith Inspectors Mitchell and Everett,
with • warrant under the hand of Mr. Alderman Allen,
proceeded to the King of Denmark Tavern, the house
question, in the Old Bailey, kept by Mr. James Ansell,
immediately opposite the prison of Newlatia, to make •
search. The King of Denmark, it should Le stated, is an
old hostelry, and a kind of gathering-place for a number of
carries to various part of the wonky within moderate
diotances of Loudon' for whose accommodation a booking-
office, with • depot for parcels and packages, is kept there.
The business of the booking-office is transacted and
many of the packages are lodged from time to time
in a little place close to the her of the public-
house. There, on a search being made, nothing wan
found by the officers to justify their errand ' • but on
going into • yard at the lack of the house they certainly
made a discovery confirming the suspicions of the person
who had, in the public interest, put himself in communica-
tion with the 'Lord Mayor. is a sort of recess in a corner
of the yard used for storing coals and coke, and open
at the top, they found seven casks, containing in the
sag te 400 lbs. of gunpowder. One cask containing
and legibly marked with the word "gunpowder,"
on the top, and four others of 501 b. each,
to have come from Messrs. Curtis an and FIV-Ivis7,ted
of
Lombard-street, four of which were addressed to Mr. Pos-
ting, ironmonger, Theme, and one to Mr. Maser, iron-
monger, of the same place. The remaining two were from
Messrs. Pijou and Walks, of Dartford Powder-mills, Meet,
one being directed to Mr. E. S. Clarke, Chusch-Cobitam,
Surrey ; the other to Mr. Samuel Taberner' grocer, Leigh-
ton Buzzard. They had been left at the King of Denmark
to be taken to their different destinations by carriers,
who were to call for them, and the police have
reopen to believe that they, or some of them, had
remained there for nearly • week previous to the
search, and it is suspected that some of the carriers had re-
' fused to be the bearers of commodities so dangerous. The
yard in which the gunpowder was found is separsted from
the adjacent property on the north by • wide court, bat the
immediate neighbourhood on the west and youth aides is
densely populated. The powder had evidently been lodged
in the place where it was discovered from cousideratiuns of
safety to the people in the public-house, though, now the .
danger is past, it borders on the ludicrous to think that it
was deposited beside • lot of coals and coke. It may lie
worth while to state, as germane to this incident, that
the Act 12th George 111., cap. 61, strictly prohibits any
pence being • dealer in gunpowder from having at
any one time more than 2001 b., and not being such dealer,
more than 501 h., " in any house, mill, magazine, store-
house, warehouse, shop, cellar, yard or what f, or other
building or place occupied by him (all buildings and places
adjoining each other being deemed one house within the
act), or on any river or other water (except in carriages
lading or uolisding or passing on the land, or in ships, boats,
or vessels, lading or unlading, or passing on any river or
other water, or detained there by the tide or bad weather)
within the cities of London or Westminster, or within three
miles of either of them." The penalty for infringing this
provision is the forfeiture of all the gunpowder found be-
yond the quantity allowed, and 2s. for every pound beyond
the quantity so allowed ; so that the penalty iucurred in
this case wall amount to 33f. and the forfeiture of 3.501 b. of
the gunpowder. It remains to be stated that the powder
seized was conveyed to the Tower under the charge of In-
spectors Mitchell and Everett, and there lodged, and the
posing supposed to be amenable have bees summoned to
account for the transaction before a niagistrate.
•

THE MAILSACRE IN STRIA.—Last night a public
meeting was held at the Vestry-hall, King's-road, Chelsea,
for the purpose of organising a local agency auxiliary of the
Syrian Relief Fund. The Hon F. Maude, R.N., occupied
tie chair. There were also resent the Hon. Hobert Bourke
the Row. Mr. Blunt, Mr. T. Price, Mr. Edward Weaver, anti
several other distinguished friends of the movement.
PROVIDENT CLEM& MUTUAL LIFE AMUNANCIL
RBSOCIATION.—The annual general meeting of this society
was held at the London Tavern yesterday evening, Mr.
R. H. Jones, chairman, presiding. The report and
balance-sheet having been read, the chairman observed that
their association was making rapid progress. Since the
establishment of the Provident Clerks' Assurance Society
DO less than 269 similar societies bad been brought into
existence, only forty-five of which were now alive. To him
it showed that their society was based on firm and lasting
principles. The retiring directors were unanimoualy re-
elected ; likewise the auditors, notwithstanding the fact
that two rival candidates were in the field. A unaninsam
vote of thanks to the various officers and the
chairman closed the proceedings. Immediately after-
wards, in connexion with the above, was held the amniaf
meeting of the Provident Clerks' Benuvoleut Fund. The
asarnbsee gentlemanofm J.
Aubpeiledsmt chair,Smith, the
iiinahevoifilaunt
The business was opened by reading the report nod balance-
sheet, which were at once received and adopted. The re-
port stated that there had been au increase of receipts
during the past year to the amount of 2,2181. 12s. M.
the treasurer of
With regard to the founding of an orphan school, the chair-
man said he did not think they were in a position to carry
it out. He had early in lieu existence of this society
a school established, he thought he would rather give the
thought over the matter, and though he should like to see
preference to an aged clerics asylum. Some (Wollaston
ensued on the point, whether the society could nut Four-
I chase a righter admission for a child into some school
already existing, but this was decided to be too expensive,
the lowest sum required being from 200 to 250 'misfit's.
The whole of the officers were re-elected, and a warm vote
el thanks was awarded to them.
Rork'. GlionsArnmAL SocirtY.—At the meeting
os Noway, the 11th inst., at Burlington-house, the papers
to be read are—l. Diecusnios on the papers read at the last
meeting, viz., "The North Atlantic Telegraph," by Cap.
talus Sir F. L. M'Clintock and Allen Young, lir. Bae,
Taylor, and Colonel Shaffner. 2. Further details relative
to the discoveries is Central Australia, by Mr. Yardman
Stuart; communicated by Sir It. L Murchison,

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LONDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 7.

IT will be seen by our telegram from Berlin
that the Prussian Chamber of Deputies has just
passed a resolution of great European importance.
On the motion of Baron VINCSE, after a six hours'
debate, and notwithstanding the opposition of the
Ministry, a majority of the Prussian Deputies have
formally declared " that it is neither for the in.
" Wrest of Prussia or Germany to place obstacles
"in the way of the Unity of Italy. " This reso-
lution was carried as an amendment to the Ad-
dress, by 159 to 146 votes. We cannot record
this fact without expressing our fervent wishes, as
Englishmen, that a nation able thus to rise above
ancient prejudices, and show itself magnanimous
may be rewarded in the increase of its own freedom
and greatness.

Tun further correspondence on the affair; of
Italy, laid before parliament on Tuesday evening, is
now issued to the public. The greater portion of
it relates to Garibaldi's expedition, and the pro-
gress of 'Algal in the kingdom of the Twu Sicilia',
the invasion of Umbria and the Marches, the risks
of an attack on Venetia, the continued occupation
of Rome, the intervention of Gaeta, and the
light in which those fact+ were regarded by the
English government, and incidentally by those of
other courts of Europe.
With respect to Naples, we find that her Ma-
jesty's government, so far from purloin's( before
all things the project of Italian unity as alleged
by Mr. Disraeli, *bile throughout following its
avowed policy of non-intervention, has discon-
raged all enterprises calculated to disturb the
pence of Europe, even those which at a later
date it recognised in their effects. Ou the 22nd
of May, a fortnight after the sailing of the expe-
dition to Marsala, Lord John Russell wrote to Sir
J. Hudson asking him to obtain from Count
Cavonr a promise nut to commit any aggression
against the kingdoiu of the Two Siciliee, and adding
that " so lung as the Pope's forces du not invade
Familia or Tuscany, Sardinia is bound to
maintain • defensive attitude." At this date it
was apprehended that Sardinia was about to
purchase the acquiescence of France in an exten-
sion of her dominion by ceseion of territory
in the Mediterranean ; the opinions just mentioned
were given in connexion with that probability,
and Count Cavour was asked to bind his govern-
ment not to yield any territory to France beyond
that given away by the treaty of Turin. In the
same month Lord John Russell endeavoured in a
similar manner to bind the Piedmontese govern-
ment to keep the peace towards Austria, and in-
structed Sir J. liaison to invite Count Cavour to
promise that no attack should be made on Venice.
The despatch in which this request was made is
dated May 26, three months before the date of
the much-quoted despatch to the same effect first
published in the Coluyne Gmette. The desire of
her Majesty's government "to preserve the peace of
Europe and prevent new dangers to the balance
of power" are the reasons or the grounds assigned
fur the activity of England in these matters.
When the free action of Garibaldi and hie fol-
lowers had changed the state of things in Sicily,
the English government showed itself prepared to
take a candid view of the situation of the Sardi-
nian government. Still in a despatch dated
July 25, Lord John Russell stated to Sir
J. Hudson the conviction that Italy would
be stronger under two sovereigns than under one
crown, and enjoined that minister to press on the
Sardinian government the obligation it was under
to discountenance expeditions directed to the over-
throw of the Neapolitan throne. In all these de-
spatches the expediency of leaving the people to settle
their own accounts with their sovereigns without
external interference is repeatedly asserted. At the
same time our government was firmly resolved to
listeu to no proposals tending to any line of action,
such as the use of force, which would have made
England responsible for the course of events. Such
proposals were made. On the 25th of July a
despatch (rem M. Thouvenel informed our govern-
ment that France saw danger in the events taking
place in Southern Italy ; Garibaldi, master of Si-'
oily, was exp-ved to make a descent on the main-
land ; alarm feigned at Naples, and already a
flight to Gaeta was meditated. " Would France
and En4lamtl"—thie was M. Thonvenel's ques-
tion—" statist by without doing anything to modify
the course of events which threatened the severest
blow to the European equilibrium ; would they
suffer • country with which they maintained the
usual relations to be invaded by an army composed
of revolutionary elements and of foreigners ; •od
would they allow outrage to interfere with the con-
stitutional experiment to which the Kiug Francis
11. had SO loyally submitted 1" The answer to this
important inquiry was that

Nee Majesty's government were of opinion that so MSS
had been made owl far a departure on their part from their
general principle of soo•ialerrention. That the levee et
Garibaldi was not as Heal! safficieet to overthrow the Nee-
pobtaa mosertey. If the navy, *nay, and people at Naples
were attached to the King. Oaribuldi would be delisted ; if
oe the contrary, they were dimmed le webs= Garibaldi,
our iaterference would be as leierveelleti Is the internal
affoin of the Neapolitan kingdom. That if Irsoos sad Eog•
loud should ot Garibaldi, and a esester•rovolution should
t.hs place, we .Iwald render ourselves respensible for the
eras that aright rogue. If Fmece obese to ielerforo aloes,
we shook, nter.ly dmapprove bar eaerse, and protest agglasi
It. In our (cameo the Neapolitans eight le be the weelese
either .7 rulers u, I 9 'naive Garibaldi.
The extrvme awl periaap Izotbid '1
English government to avert as Italian attack as
Venetia appear* awl reappears continually
throughout these despatches'. On the 21.1 of
August Lord J. Ittimell, writing to It Fwe, says
" her Majesty's governmeat would discourage as