The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MO \IDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1862.

Hero's new enterprise appears to all of us mere
lookers on, undoubtedly—and rash even to the last
degree of rashness. But, if GARIBALDI lacks every-
thing in the way of disinterestedness—his Honesty,
his Guilelessness, his Heroism, are beyond the limits
I of exaggeration.

Since writing the above this afternoon, another
Telegram has just been flashed to us from the Con-
tinent. It announces the simultaneous outburst of
a new rallying-cry among the populace in the
North of Italy, and in the South of Italy, at Genoa
and in Sicily. "Down with RATAZZI 1" It is
significant. Should the cry extend or get echoed
North, South, East, West, in the Roman peninsula
the Minister will have to thank himself for the diffi-
culty into which he has blundered. A difficulty it
now threatens to be to Signor RATAzzi none the less
formidable of its kind, for inasmuch': as this new
cry of, "Down with RATAZZI !" is coupled in one
quarter with another cry of, " Viva VICTOR Mi-
lan:rm., and GARIBALDI !" Once, again, fairly
identify the interests of the KING and the Hero,
and down will go the French Italian Minister!

We do not like needlessly to find fault with our
courts of justice; but more things have been done
lately than usual,.which should hardly be passed

over in silence.

We have already adverted to FLOOD'S case, con,
victed by a Sussex jury of murder without recom
mendation to mercy, although the judge hinted
that such a recommendation would be attended to :
it was also beyond dispute that the man bore an
excellent character, and had been driven to half
intoxicate himself, and, in that condition, to murder,
by a series of regimental brutalities, and by the fear
and threat of their renewal from'the person whom he
shot. The man cannot be hanged, and if the feeling
of the country is to be respected, we may hope that
as a lesson to the real authors of the murder, his
brutal comrades—he will be punished only for man-
slaughter. It is singular that Sussex also furnished
the jury who acquitted another deliberate mur-
derer, because, though he killed a man, it was not
the man whom he intended to kill.
Another case is what, so far as we can judge
from the reported evidence, is a most unwarrantable
one of admitting to bail. Rape is a crime which
every woman, every father, brother, and husband,
feel to be hardly second to murder. It was,
till very lately, dealt with in the same way.
In aggravated cases, it richly deserves hang-
ing. Yet Mr. WOOLEYCH, however, admits
to bail, and on easy terms too, a Mr. JUPP,
whom the evidence, as we now have it, both of the
police and of the respectable young servant girl,
prove to have been guilty of a most violent and suc-
cessful assault on the girl's honour. If screams,
fainting, hysterics, and insensibility were not pre-
sumptive evidence that Jun, had been guilty of a
crime which merits the severest penalties society
can inflict, we know not what would be evidence.
If the poor girl had been the daughter of a mem-
ber of Parliament, or of a Bishop, Mr.WooLßYcli's
conduct would have been questioned in the House of
Lords and the House of Commons ; and the Home
Secretary would have been as indignant and active,
as when Mr, PILKINOTON, M.P., was garrotted—but
a virtuous servant girl is no object of interest, we
presume, to elected, or even to Episcopal Legisla-
tors. The Bishop of OXFORD, who took care of
girls of sixteen, might have bethought him of in-
quiring whether a girl of eighteen was to be thus
outraged with impunity, if his father and uncle were
willing to pay £lOO a piece, and the criminal him-
self £2OO, if he left as much behind him. We shall
see whether the police will be able to produce him
on the day of trial, for it seems incredible that he
should produce himself.

Another was a case in which, we believe, most
readers of the trial think there was a serious failure
of justice; nor can we but think the Judge himself
as much in error as the jury, and probably the chief
cause of their error. General SHIRLEY, he of
Bashi-Bazouk reputation in the Crimean war, is the
hero on the wrong side of this case—a highly re-
spectable and well brought-up young woman, se-
duced by him under a promise of marriage, as she
asserts, is the victim. In cases of breach of promise
of marriage, by a perversity intended surely to
favour the stronger sex, the parties to the alleged
promise cannot be examined—though the parties to
suits of infinitely less consequence may be. Hence,
a crafty old man of fifty may easily dupe a little
suspecting orphan of twenty-three, such as Miss
THOMAS was, if he ehoses so to do. That Major-
General SHIRLEY did so dupe Miss THOMAS must,
we should think, be the impression received by all
those who read the evidence, and it was not of a
nature, like much evidence, to appear different to a
court and to a reader.

Miss THOMAS had but very slender means, in-
deed, but had from seventeen years filled a respec-
able situation as a governess. She sought another,
through Miss MOON, the head of an agency office
for governesses, at whose instance she first
endeavoured to improve her French at
Paris, but afterwards Miss MOON suggested
and drew up for her an advertisement, which ran
thus—" As Lady Housekeeper.—A young lady is
desirous of obtaining an engagement as housekeeper

to a widower or single gentleman. She is accom

plished, and of ladylike deportment. Address
CON STAN CE, care of the Lady Principal of the Musi-
cal Agency Office, 40, Oxford-street." It seems
hardly credible that not only the veteran seducer,
but the judge, and we suppose the jury, should see
nothing in this advertisement, but a public offer of
the advertiser to accept a dishonourable position ;
and that though the principal of the institution
drew it up herself. Miss MOON had inserted many
such advertisements, and it is certain that no re-
spectable paper would insert what this advertise-
ment was said to be—an advertisement of prostitu-
tion. The reason for the preference on the part of
Miss THOMAS approved by the principal of the in-
stitution was, obviously, that it is frequently far
more trying to a respectable young Nyman to
servo under one of her own sex than under a
gentleman.

General SHIRLEY refused to produce the letters
he had received, which ought to have been a pre-
sumption against him. But even his own letters,
cautiously as they were worded, to our judgment,
showed that he had made her promises of
marriage, on which a young orphan girl,
not suspecting a soldier, entirely relied. She
was wholly unaware that he was sepa-
rated from his wife, and so must even some re-
spectable neighbours have been, for they at one
place received Miss THOMAS as Mrs. SHIRLEY ; it is
remarkable that in one letter after he had effected

his purpose, when he wanted her to come to his
house in the country, and act as his housekeeper, he
actually added to the request that she would resume
her own name, for a time at least! An expression
which he could not have used except to make his
language decently square with promises he had
made her,
There was also the evidence of a young
lady, who had heard a conversation which it was
planned she shoulo.' hear, and in which the
general distinctly spoke of his promises to Miss
,
THOMAS. There was nothing whatever to impeach
`---
this evidence, Has the general not made promises,

he knew better at fifty than to confess it, and that
in the very act of refusing to keep them.

We admit that the chief failure is that caused by
the law which refuses the best evidence, but
balancing the denial of the Bashi.Bazouk general
separated from his wife, against the assertion of
an orphan of twenty-three, corroborated by previ-
ous virtuous character, by Miss MOON'S acts, by her
letters, and by the conversation, we could not hesi-
tate a moment in giving our verdict for the victim.

Another naval lesson from America, and again
from the Confederates. All of us who take an in-
terest in public matters—and few are the English-
men uninterested in their navy—will a second time
strain our eyes to the uttermost to see if anything
fresh can be learned on the subject of ironsides and
steam rams. This time we must look across half
the American continent to the Mississippi itself—
there for a long time the Federal Fleet of gunboats
has been in vain bombarding the city of Vicksburg,
and in vain, also, endeavouring by means of a canal
across the neck of the Peninsula on which it stands,
to cut it off from being a River Port for ever. The
river had fallen too much to scour through the
canal and change the channel. The consequence is
that Vicksburg is still a virgin fortress, and its bat-
teries, with those of Baton Rouge, one or two hun-
dred miles below it, command an important section
of the Mississippi, quite enough to place the Federal
fleets in a rather awkward position.

But it is at Vicksburg itself that the feats of the
Merrimac have been renewed, and that it has
again been shown how far superior the South,
considering its smaller mechanical resources, has
proved itself to the North. Our readers noticed,
probably, the brief account which appeared in The
Sun on Saturday, of the exploits of the Arkansas,
to-day we extract, from a Chicago paper, much
fuller details of the same exploit. The river
Yazoo runs into the Mississippi at Vicks-
burg, and it was up this river that the
second Merrimac was fitted out. She appears to
have been covered like the Merrimac with a double
coating of the best railway iron, her deck low,
with portholes only just big enough for the muzzles
of the guns, nothing on deck but the " Smoke
Stack," anglice, funnel, and not an aperture by
which a boarding party could enter, a fact verified
by her foes. Her armament was powerful, but it
was her invulnerability which made her so dreadful
an antagonist. The Federal iron-plated gun-
boats pitted against her, are only imperfectly pro-
tected—their plates do not exceed 21 inches in
thickness, and they are applied only to those parte
which are supposed most to need protection.

It was known that the Arkansas was building,
though scoffers at such an idea of Southern skill
and energy were not wanting. However, three
steamers were sent up the Yazoo to reconnoitre.
They were just too late. They found the Arkansas
ready to steam at them at once, while they could
not get back to the main fleet lying off Vicksburg,
in time to prepare them for a visit from the new
Impregnable. The Queen of the West went ahead
of the of her two, but they had not gone above five
miles when the Queen was observed coming back
" with every pound of steam on," and proclaim-
ing—" the Arkansas is coming." And coming she

was. The Carondelet was the first to encounter her,

aided by the Tyler, the third boat. She laid her
broadside towards the approaching ship, but the
balls were seen to strike and fall harmlessly into
the water. Another broadside was given at fifty
yards, but with the same result. The Arkansas

then ran into the Carondelet's starboard quarter,

crushing it, and keeping up a fire of broadsides
with pointed shot, which raked her from stem to

stern, while the shot of the Carondelet rolled off the
Arkansas " like indiarubber balls." Boarding was
now tried, but the iron hatches were down and
fastened inside. The boarders returned but only
to their now sinking vessel; her stem was riddled,
the officers' quarters shot away, and at last a steam-
pipe was cut away by a shot, when many of the
men jumped overboard out of the way of the
scalding steam.
The Arkansas having finished the Carondolet,
attended next to the Tyler, which, with her
thin sides, had no chance of resisting the
enemy's shot ; she fled at once, firing her stern
guns into the pursuing Arkansas, and receiving
the fire of the bow guns of the latter, till her boats
being shot away, and her hull badly injured, they
both, pursuer and pursued, came in sight of the
whole fleet. The Arkansas must run the gauntlet
of this, before she could anchor under the guns of
Vicksburg, and she was in no way reluctant to
undertake that feat. As it happened, not a vessel
in the fleet had steam up, or was in a condition
to move. They so lay, also, that a great part of
the ships could not use their guns without injuring
friends more than the enemy. The ram fleet, which
lay at the mouth of Yazoo, forthwith scattered
in all directions. On the Arkansas passed, send-
ing her shot right and left, while the most
powerful boats were hindered by the cause just
mentioned from returning her fire. At last the
Oneida hits her from her eleven-inch gun—the ball
drops harmless. Two others fire, but without
effect. The Arkansas steams on, doing all the
damage she can to gunboats and transport ships,
and apparently receiving none herself. The Cin-
cinnati, the last gunboat in her route to the Vicks-
burg battery, is anxiously looked to by the fleet ;
but she has not steam enough to head the stream ;
the Arkansas attacks her, and it was thought that
the balls from her rifled parrot guns, at short range,
did enter the seemingly invulnerable ship—the
other guns produced no effect at all. The Cin-
cinnati soon got into water too shallow for the
Arkansas to follow her, so as it were giving her the
parting kick of a broadside, the latter steamed off
to her destination at Vicksburg.

We do not perhaps learn much that is strictly
new from this second splendid naval feat. It was

in great part, like the former in Hampton Roads,
a surprise,
but like that it illustrated what an
invulnerable could do amongst vulnerables. It is
doubted whether the Arkansas received any serious
injury at all, but there was no Monitor to en-
point was proved,
icmpounetrefrechtelyr, everydefednbeoda.t sheo One
eught with being but

the possibility of guns' being worked under
closed hatches, and with portholes not much
larger than their mouths, yet not suffocating the
crew with the smoke and gases generated by the
gunpowder. It seems that ships may close them-
selves up, and become like floating armadillos,
and yet retain all their powers of offence, and
steer where they like with perfect ease.

The visit of the Queen to Germany is rendered
necessary, to a certain extent, as administratrix to the
estate of the late Prince Consort, and it is generally under-
stood that her Majesty will have a considerable amount of
business to transact in that capacity. Arrangements will
have to be made with respect to Prince Alfred, the pie-
sumptive heir to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, and the in-
heritor of his father's property in the Duchy. This, with
other matters, will, it is expected, fully occupy the time
fixed for the Queen to remain on the Continent.—Court
Journal.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-At no time during the year
are the grounds of the Palace so beautiful as at present.
Viewed from any point, masses of colour of every shade,
produced by flowers grouped together by thousands, delight
the eye on all sides. The great fountains are also now seen
to the best advantage, the brilliancy of the flowers giving
additional charms to the display. The whol3 aeries will be
played to-morrow (Tuesday) at four o'clock.

THE TIMES AND THE ZOLLVEREIN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sul,—l am a German.

I have lived in England for

many years, and, partly from my English family con-
nexions, hive in many ways followed the customs of this
country. One of these I found to be skimming over the
Times newspaper at breakfast, and the retailing of its pro-
found wisdom and comprehensive information among those
whom one meets during the day, often adhering to the very
phraseology of that paper, though mostly preserving as
one's own the dicta and verbs of England's tremendous
thinking-machine. I confess it was not always easy to
comply with this custom; and I might have found the dif-
ficulties in my way insuperable, had it not been for the
praiseworthy example set me by most of the very well -to-
do and intensely respectable people I had the good fortune
to fall in with. At present my mind, lam happy to say,
is as Times-bound as theirs. By degrees I have learn dto
swear by the Thundner ; lam now as well convinced as
any other man of the authenticity of everything which
that admirable genius " Our Own Correspondent" reports
—I am never shocked at hearing that a would-be (but ab-
solutely impossible) refutation of one of its statements has
been denied space in its columns, The leading articles are
my especial delight ; and I thin k myself so well trained that,
trusting to my oracle's superior wisdom, it would cost me very
little to proclaim to-day as most absurd and wicked the men
and the measures which three years or 4hree months ago I
glorified and venerated as heroic and virtuous. I have of
late two or three times changed my view of Garibaldi—l
have altered seven or eight times my estimate of the Ruler
of France ; the King of Prussia is to me by turns a repre-
sentative of liberalism and the champion of right Divine;
and, after having declared three weeks ago that Southern
rebellion was at an end * and Beauregard a coward, the
way in which I can now be heard extolling that com-
mander, and walking into the Yankees— a people whom
I highly esteem and deeply abhor —is entirely satis-
factory to myself.

But it is not enough to admire, we must imitate good
example. In short, the laurels of "the leading journal of
Europe" let me sleep no longer. I, too, will duly burn my
midnight oil, and my lucubrations shall be no less wonder-
ful than those of the Times. I dare hope to approach that
masterly speculation and grand flight of imagination with
which that paper has just treated the history and connec-
tion of the Zollverein, of Germany, of Prussia, of the
Austian empire.

I have set up correspondent for an influential German
paper, and I shall likewise furnish its editors with leading
articles on English politics, commerce, and society, Per-
haps I do not quite understand these things, but that does
not matter, as my illustrious example so fully proves. I
certainly flatter myself that my articles will, in this
moment of international connexions, be of the greatest value
in drawing closer the bonds of brotherly esteem, based on
a semblance of a mutual study of the nation's circum-
stances, history, aspirations, and prospects.
I shall also not fail, incidentally and of set purpose, to
give plentiful advice as to the best mode in which things
in genets' had better be managed, and my suggestions
proceeding from an accurate knowled€ e, which, I con-
fidently trust, will be placed on a par with that of the Times,
cannot but be well received ix England itself, as well as by
English residents in Germany, though it will sometimes be
my painful duty to pour the oil of sarcasm over the heads
of your benighted countrymen, and to pitifully and
patronisingly allude to the very unsatisfactory state in
which your country found herself before the repeal of the
corn laws, in the days of Old Sarum, and when Caesar per-
leyed with the'painted Britons. Such gentle reminders and
graceful allusions will, no doubt, be found to be in as good
taste as the appeal the Imes makes to its older readers, to
recollect the former " poverty-stricken " position of Ger-
many; and such passages, especially when brought for-
ward during Exhibition times, must, there as here, be
thought the very salt of our articles.

I believe, Sir—for I have read your paper likewise for
some years that you are inclined, however much the clash of
noisome discussions may tend in the contrary direction, to
uphold the views which in our younger days we proclaimed
to the tune of Beranger's (that old sinner's—l mean that
inspired poet's) " Sainte Alliance des Peuples."

I trust therefore that you will help me in my cosmopoli-
tan and international undertaking. I trust even the limes
—whenever I shall have proved to be successful—may
s omeLimes assist me, seeing that from a good understand-
ing between nations many tangible results may flow, in
facilities for railway undertakings, manifold engineering
and mining works abroad, and in, similar modes appreciable
by the aforesaid respectable public. But to you, who ap-
pear to me so much less grand or awful, I address myself
confidently in the first instance, hoping that you will occa-
sionally give me the advantage of your advice, and that you
will sometimes translate an extract or two from my multi
farious and anonymous, but not the less weighty articles.
My first leader, then, will speak of the contemplated
union of Ireland with the dominions of her Majesty. I
shall here briefly dwell on the immense advantages
which will accrue to many Irish orange women and flower
girls by a market being offered them under the kindly fos-
tering protection of the Mansion-house and the City police
—to a host of navvies who will find on these hospit-
able shores, work and whisky to the liberality
and the enjoyment which may be expected from
listening to or reading the amenities of the Secre-
tary whom the Imperial Government will appoint for
that interesting country when the union it has so long
hoped for, will, by the help of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, be
happily brought about. I mean then to go on to say that
very credible information has reached me to the effect that
even Scotland wishes to enter into more friendly relations
with the Southrons, and that the name of the United King-
dom will comprise three countries hitherto absardly
divided by an insidious, vexatious, and imbecile system of
passports and tolls. It will be necessary to mention that
some people fear too many Scots will come southwards,
and never go back again, but I shall point out that this
evil will be counterbalanced by the magnificent spectacle
of two nations agreeing voluntarily to do away with the
mischievous raids and barbarous feuds which have only
lately led to the establishment of, or strengthening of,
many border towers, entrusted to so many valiant Arm-
strongs and Bells, and the chief command over which
has been given to the warlike Earl of Carlisle. These,
the very towers or forts which figure so largely in
the fortification estimates of Lord Palmerston, becoming
now superfluous, a considerable sum may happily, and to
the great relief of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of
her Majesty's lieges, be struck off the annual expenditure.
Having made this statement, I shall use it for an argument
towards a general European disarmament, and then, taking
to Pan's pipe, indulge in pleasant reveries and speculations
as to the rapidity with which the Cornish language may
be expected to spread over the newly-formed United King-
dom.

Can you for a moment doubt, sir, that such au article,
evincing in the best manner of my great model, both good
sense atid feeling, scrupulously exact and replete with use-
ful information, can fail to produce an impression fully as
favourable on the continent, as did the recent Times leader
on Austria, Prussia, and the Zollverein
Perhaps I shall in the same article, but I will in the
one immediately following, strive to enlighten, and, by the
force of example, raise my countrymen in the point of
manners, by detailing to them the last improvements which
our immortal contemporary, Beau Brummel, has recently
invented in the matter of dress and living; and it may
probably encourage them in their present constitutional
struggles, if we tell them there is great hope the demands
of the English barons will all be granted and be handed
down to posterity in a document to which the name of the
Great Charter is likely to be given.

Only help me occasionally by your advice, and you and
I, sir, will yet bring to light a series of articles, which,
along with those of the Times, shall be conducive, if not to
a good, at any rate, to an amusing and jolly international
feeling, convertible, indeed, in serious moments, into its
very opposite, and thus mutually, in our leading articles,
we may help, by a believing public, to lead your country
and mine by the nose,—l am, Sir, yours respectfully,

(i. 0.

* Vide Timm Correspondent from New York after the
evacuation of Corinth.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALF-CROWN DAY, SATUR-
DAY.—Admissions on payment, 3,071; ditto, by season
tickets, 1,529; total, 4,600. Total visitors for week ending
Saturday, 103,128.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.—The St. Louis
Republican publishes the following outrage committed by
the Federal troops :—ln Monroe county, Missouri, near the
Salt River Railroad bridge, on Sunday last, as Mr. James
M. Lesley and his family were returning home from church,
together with a party of young ladies and gentlemen who
were visiting them at their country home, they found their
dwelling and grounds occupied by Federal troops who had
been stationed at the bridge. Suspecting no harm, though
finding the grounds guarded, they advanced towards their
residence, when Mr. Lasley was ordered to get down and go
to Palmyra. He replied that they must permit him to enter
the house and get a thicker coat, as he would be absent all
night. This they positively denied, telling him the coat he
had on would do for him. They then placed him and Jas.
Price (a young son of a widow lady) and young Ridgeway,
an only son of aged parents, in front of the Federal lines.
The young ladies and Mrs. Lasley, with her two children,
yet remained on the ground, Having separated these taree
gentlemen from the ladies whom they had escorted from
church, the officer is command addressed some very insult-
ing words to them. The dreadful truth that they were to
be shot at once flashed across Mrs. Lasley's mind, and she
darted to join her huaband and share his fate, bat was
caught and held by one of the young ladies present, just
as Mr. Lasley and young Prioe fell, having been shot dead.
Young Ridgeway rushed into the woods which were near,
but delayed his death only a few seconds, for he was pur-
sued and instantly killed. It is proper further to say that
Mr. Lasley had taken the oath of allegiance, and was ender
a heavy bond ; that young Ridgeway was also under oath
and bond, and that Price was only 15 years of age. Before
this Crime was committed it is alleged that the soldiery, ',ad
taken possession c,4 Lasley's house—had helped them-
;6..vto to everything they wanted—hacl 'partaken of a good
dinner which the cook was cdered to prepare for them,
and had destroyed many household articles.

LATEST NEWS.

NAPLES, AUG. 10.

, Rumours are current that a great many persons
have been arrested during the night for complicity

in the secret enrolments.

TURIN, AUG. 10.

The Campana of to-day maintains that the only
means by which a solution of the present difficulties
can be brought about is the dismissal of Ratazzi.

GENOA, AUG. 10.
A popular demonstration took place here to-day.
The crowd, which was very numerous, afterwards
dispersed in an orderly manner.

PALERMO, AUG. 10.
Garibaldi is at Caltanisetta, but his followers have
not entered the town.

The deputies MM. Mordini, Fabrizi, and others
have arrived here.

They are preparing a demonstration against the
Government.

Bulletins are being circulated, bearing the words,
" Down with Ratazzi !" " Long Live Victor
Emmanuel and Garibaldi !"

PARIS, AUG. 9.
La France of this evening contains the following

news :

" At the third Conference held at Constantinople
it was decided in principle that the Turks should
continue to occupy the citadel of Belgrade.

" A Garibaldian manifestation has taken place in
La Scala theatre at Milan, at which shouts were
raised of ' Rome or death ! '

" It is asserted that the Confederate Envoys at
Paris and London have demanded the recognition
of the Southern Confederacy, and that England has
refused to accede, while France has not yet given
any reply."

AUGUST 10.

The Moniteur of to-day announces that the Em-
peror arrived at St. Cloud at 6 30 p.m. yesterday,
and that his Majesty will hold a grand review
en the 14th inst.

M. Dufaure has been appointed Batonnier of the
Advocates of Paris.

La France of this evening contains the follow

ing:—

"The Pope is said to have addressed a circular
to the Catholics in the East recommending them
not to assist the Turks in attacking the Montene-
grins, because Catholics ought never to fight against
Christians."

TURIN, AUG. 9.

The Optnione of to-day says:—" The encounter
between the Garibaldian volunteers and the royal
troops appears to have taken place at St. Etienne,
on the road to Girgenti. The royal troops num
tiered 100 and the Garibaldians 1,200. After a few
shots had been fired the volunteers retired, leaving
70 muskets. General Garibaldi commands the
column which is marching towards Messiva."
The iWonarchia Nazionale of to-day says :—" The
encounter was accidental. The Garibaldians lefr
arms and two killed on the field. The majority of
the volunteers were very young."

AUG. 10.

The Discussione of to-day contains the follow-
ing Garibaldi has occupied Rocca and Palunba.
He has made a speech which some persons assert
was to the following effect :

" The present state of affairs cannot continue. I
go against the Government because it will not let
me go to Rome. Igo against France because be-
cause she defends the Pope. I will have Roma at
any price. Rome or death ! It I succeed, so much
the better; if not, I will destroy the Italy which I
made myself."
The same paper says :—" The departure of vo-
lunteers from Palermo has almost entirely ceased.

Rumours are current that their conduct ha 3 been
such as to render them obnoxious to the population.
Some of the Volunteers who had left Palermo have
returned thither. They had taken their departure
under the belief that an understanding existed
between the King and Garibaldi, but on being un-
deceived they returned to their homes."

No further news has been received from Sicily.
Signor Ratazzi declp,red to-day in Parliament that
the statement published by the Agence Continentals
in the French papers, that the 45th Regiment on
landing at Palermo, shouted " Garibaldi for ever
and was in consequence immediately ordered to
Ancona, was absolutely false.

TURIN, AUG. 10.

The Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of yes-
terday evening, voted the bill granting the conces-
sion of the Neapolitan Railways to M. Bastogi.
The Bill on the sale of the State domains, and
some other Bills, were also agreed to.
The Marqui a Pepoli urged the discussion of the
Bill for granting credits on landed property.
Signor Ratazzi having, in conformity with the
proposition of several deputies, expressed a wish
that the Session might be prolonged, the Chamber
agreed to reassemble on Tuesday next.