The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1860.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL-JULY 9.

Acceptances for the Liverpool Cup. Two miles. 76 subs,
43' of whom pay 6 soya each. The highest weight ac-
cepting being 7st 101 b, it has been raised to Bst 121 b, and
the others in proportion.
Yrs st lb
Comforter
Longrange 5 8 12
Gladiolus
Adam Bede
Telegram
Petra .
Eskdale
Shafto
Aston 4 8 4
Marine ' 4 8 0
Bucephalus
Northern Light 3 7 9
Wallace 3 7 9
Birdbolt 3 7 9
Howth
Druid 3 7 2
The Brewer

Yrs st lb
Winkfield
Phantom
Edmund Kean 3 7 1
Viatka
Weatherbound
The Pitman
Feodorowno.
Moorcock
Flitch 4 6 11
Infanta
Chirper
Horace
Malpas
Yoicks
The Baronet 3 6 10
Starbeck

HAMPTO:

RACES.

The. Stand Plate of 60 soya. (handicap), for all ages. The
winner of any race after the weights appear to carry 51b
extra; Any number of horses the property of the same
owner may run for this plate. Three-quarters of a mile.
Yrs at lb Yrs st lb
Drogheda
Independence
New Brighton
Prelude
Miss Eleanor
Lady Peel 4 8 2 The Gentle . 3 6 13
Flame 4 8 1 Audrey
Chaloine
. _

Kate
4 6 7
Day Spring
Harlequin 3 6 6
ch c by Surplice—
Rose of Cashmere 3 6 4
Schnapps
Pixie
Tonio 2 4 10
Ringbone

Volunteer
General Hess 3 7 13
Barege
Chantress
Juliet .. 4 7 10
Estella; ..
Infan,ta
Vulture
Greenwich Fair
Codicil
The Richmond Plate of 50 sovs. (Handicap), for all
ages. The winner of any race after the weights appear to
carry 51b. extra; any number of horses the property of the
same owner may run for this plate. One mile.

Yrs st lb
Independence .... 4 9 6
Drogheda
Romeo
Prelude
Miss Eleanor 4 8 1
Gorsehill
Man-at-Arms, 3 8 0
Barege
Lady Peel 4 8 0
Flame
Estella
Volunteer 4 7 12
Contention
cbythe Fallow Buck
—Subterfuge .. 3 7 7

Yrs st lb
Dartmouth
Infanta
Codicil
Pescatore
Volatore
Nana Sahib
Doeskin 4 6 13
Gift
Day Spring .. 3 6 10
Watersprite
Harlequin 3 6 7
c by Surplice—Rose
of Cashmere
Colonel Crockett
Ringbone

Our First Sweetheart.—Widow Hewitt was
dear, primitive old woman, with only two faults in
the world. The first, and by far the most terrible
in our estimation, was an inveterate prejudice in favour
of camomile tea, and the strength of her prejudice was
only equalled by that of her decoction. Her preserves
were superb, and her apple-pies—her real "apple-pies"
—were something to talk about, putting to the blush the
make-believe fashion of trumpery tarts, where an ounce of
fruit is spread over any quantity or quality of crust, with
prison bars laid across, as if to protect the beggarly thing
from invasion ; her cake was equal to her pie, and her home-
made wines were equal to her cake. Somehow we soon got
on such terms with the old lady, that we had the run of a
certain corner cupboard, and revelled in raspberry-jam,
greengage, marmalade, and sparkling gooseberry; but
alas ! there was a " bubbly jock" to our gastric felicity in the
form of that horrid camomile tea, which the dear old lady
insisted on administering, in the full dose of half a pint. to
every luckless being within reach of her prescription. No
matter what was the ailment—fever, sprained ankle, or
neuralgia—it could only be cured by camomile tea. Camo-
mile tea was her " life-preserver ;' it was necessary to
existence, in her opinion, as the air we breathe ; and, as
old Gimble the wheelwright said, " It wur a merciful pro-
vidence she didn't take to quack pison-stuff on the same
scale." She bribed the Sunday school children into its
bitterness once a month ; she persuaded the landlord of
"The Chequers" that it would remove his grog-blossom;
she made the dressmaker believe that it would "clear her
complexion ;': and it was asserted that she had attempted
to dose the old foxhound, Music, when he came to them a
puppy with the distemper. Certain it is that old Music
always displayed active signs of disapprobation whenever
he caught sight of the brown pitcher that held the elixir,
and it is also certain that he scratched up the camomile
flowers on the common with a force that savoured more of
revenge than mischief. Dame Hewitt's other fault was in
thinking that her son Ben, who managed the business, was
the only son in the world worthy of a mother. Certainly,
Ben was a fine-hearted, handsome young man ; he was
seldom seen at " The Chequers," and played the fiddle at
church every Sunday ; he knew a good deal of Shakspere and
Goldsmith'; always had a flower in his jacket button-hole ;
managed to shoe the most vicious horses without diffi-
culty, and had a knack of quieting obstreperous babies in
a magical manner. Ben's eyes and whiskers were
eno gh to disturb the peace of all the Phillises and
Daphnes in the neighbourhood ; and when his mother
declared that the baronet's son was not to be compared
to him, there is little doubt that her opinion was
fully concurred in by more young ladies than one. It
was our fortune to captivate Ben's affections to a very
serious extent. His youngest sister and ourselves had
exercised the freemasonry of children, and grown very
"thick" during two or three accidental meetings in the
lane. We had given her a volume of "Fairy Tales," and
she had bestowed on us a pin-cushion of her own making.
Our approbation of each other was fully, established over a
private reading of "Robinson Crusoe,' blended with the
demolition of a large apple turnover, and ended inour being
taken to her home to ;ee a litter of wonderful puppies.
Good Dame Hewitt took infinite notice of our fine com-
plexion," and said all sorts of kind things ; but we recollect
that she insinuated a few remarks as to the efficacy of
"camomile tea" in "improving the skin." Ben came in,
and found us on the floor, squaw fashion, with three pup-
pies on our lap and one in each hand ; whether it was our
personal beauty, our picturesque "pose," our somewhat
saucy tongue,
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Ben was " smitten" to a deep extent, and had ten
years been added to our eight, the consequences might
have been fatal. From that day, whenever we were
missing at home, the place of our resort was no
mystery,—we were surd to be found at Dame Hewitt's.
Dear, kind, manly, six-feet high Ben, called us his
"little sweetheart," and concluded himself with the most
lover-like devotion. He permitted us to indulge in all
sorts of wilful abominations, from interfering with red-hot
horse-shoes, to taking his best straw hat on a butterfly-
hunt. He allowed us to hammerfen the anvil, and work
the bellows as often as we chose, and when these occupa-
tions had metamorphosed us into something that our own
mother would have scarcely recognised, his utmost rebuke
was " Look at your pinafore," accompanied by a maternal-
like attempt to restore our hands and face to their primitive
hue at the water-trough. Bon invariably thought that a
holiday would do him a world of good, when we proposed
a nutting or wild-strawberrying party in the woods ; and
how he would tread down the biggest brambles in our way,
and lift us in his strong arms that we might have the plea-
sure of clutching at an unusually big cluster of oob-nuts.
How he would bring us the finest strawberries he found,
and make us sit down where the moss was thickest on the
sunny bank, while he smoothed our roughened curls into
something like human ty, and insisted on a kiss for his
trouble. We are afraid we played the tyrant very often,
and exercised our power most ungenerously ; but Ben
seemed to like his slavery, and encouraged our spirit
of domination by every possible means. The squire
was in immediate want of his hack, which had been sent
to the forge to have a cast shoe replaced ; but if we ex-
pressed a strong wish that Ben should mount and take us
up before him for a canter to the turnpike and back, why,
the squire might whistle for his nag until our desire was
gratified. The family might scream their loudest for Ben
to come in to dinner • but if ho were engaged in swinging
us under the old walnut-tree in the garden, the beef was
always allowed to get cold. We wanted a young squirrel
to pet, and Ben, of course, risked hie neck up the tallest
trees ;we took a fancy to a large water-lily, springing in
the very middle of Miller's Brook, and Ben immediately
was bootless and stockingless, and knee-deep in the lucid
tide. He went to London the coldest, foggiest day in the
whole winter, in order to present us with a riding-whip on
our birthday. He gave us the exquisite myrtle which he
had cherished for three years, and trusted us with his
valuable pocket-knife for any blade-destroying purpose
whatever; in short, Ben was our devoted slave.—Eliza
Cook's "Jottings from my Journal."
MURDER BY A LADY OF HER CHILD.—The in-
habitants o? Coseley, an extensive coal and iron district near
Dudley, Worcestershire, were terrified on Wednesday by
the intelligence that a lady, well blown and respected, had
perpetrated, in a horrible manner, the murder of her illegi-
timate child. Miss Sarah Ann Tyre, daughter of Mr. Thos.
Tyre, of the Duffield Iron-works, residing at Mount Plea-
sant, of the same place, had been suspected and accused of
being encicnte, to which she gave a stout denial to her ac-
quaintances. Strangely, a married woman, named Grimmol,
on her way to an iron work with her husband's breakfast,
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made sure that it was a human being, she sought
assistance, and a female child, which appeared to be
several days old, was extracted`from the place. It was soon
seen that it had been pitilessly ill-used. Marks of violencen
were particularly prominent on the head, and there were
abrasions and bruises on the legs and body. The injuriese
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on the head showed that it had been dashed against some
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having "had something the matter with her, but did not
know what."' She was then too ill to be taken into oua-
tody, but the police guarded the house. She is about 18
years of age, has a very interesting appearance, and only
recently returned home from a boarding-school. Some
painful disclosures in reference to the affair are eApeoted to
be made at the coroner's inquiry,


CHINA.

HONG KONG, APRIL 21.
The mail is advertised to leave on the 25th, four
days before the usual time, in expectation of the
change of monsoon, which ought to occur about the
end of this month. You must therefore be satisfied
with a shorter letter than usual, which is of the less'
consquence because there is really nothing to write
about. Nothing of any interest has happened
since 'I last wrote. The Commander-in-Chief is
till at Shanghae. The French vice-admiral has
gone thither. We have not yet heard of the occu-
pation of Chusan. 1,8Q9 French troops, principally
of the 101st regiment of the line, have arrived in
a man-of-war steamer and transport, and are now
in Hong Kong harbour. Many of the men
land and roam about the town daily. They are
smart good-looking fellows, but the majority
appear too young and slight for this climate. '1 hey
have had a very prosperous voyage, and have had
no sickness to speak of. They have with them a
general of brigade. They will leave this for
Shatighae in a few days, and are, I believe, to dis-
embark and occupy a position at the entrance to
the Woosung, the river that leads from the great
Yang-tse river up to Shanghae. Having once
established themselves in that locality, it remains
to be- seen whether they will ever again quit it.
The French nation has the credit of hankering after
a colony, or at. least a pied-a-terre in China, and
the situation I have indicated might perhaps suit ,
their-purpose. It is favourably placed for trade, 1
and may be expected to prove healthy. The
climate of Shanghai, which is about 15 miles up
the Woosnng river, is considered better than that
of Hong Kong.
The organisation of the expedition proceeds, and
the preparations are assuming gigantic proportions.
The harbour is full of transports, fitted up for
infantry, cavalry, artillery, stores, &c. The quarter-
master general's department ceases not night and
day from its herculean labours, which seem daily to
gather more and more thickly around it. Strong
must be the frame and clear and wise the head. of
any man who can -preside over the multifarious
duties and direct the varied operations of this re-
sponsible department. It seems to be well repre-
sented in this force; and the long experience and
untiring energy of its chief may fairly be taken as
a guarantee for ultimate success. Of commissariat
officers there seems to be a small army. Under the
names of commissaries, purveyors, storekeepers,
and other denominations, their name, in the aggre-
gate, should be "Legion." You meet them at
every corner, in pretty uniforms and faultless shirt-
collars, and new corners turn iu the street to stare
reverentially at the stars on theirjackets and spurs
on their heels, and speculate whether the pro-
prietors can be generals of division, or only briga-
diers or high staff officials. However, we are not
disposed to cavil at their gay plumage, but are pre-
pared to speak of them with the greatest possible
respect, for they not only feed 'us but pay us too •,
and any failure on their part in the discharge of
either of these very important duties would result
in most serious personal inconvenience ; therefore
we wish them all slccess. Land transport is still
a subject of frequet conversation, and I doubt
not of considerable anxiety. Of tonnage there
seems to be a sufficiency. 225. a ton, with a cer-
tain engagement for six months for every trans-
port, would hardly fail to ensure this ; but means
of carriage by land are not to be had to any extant
for love or money. As far as I can gather, the
state of affairs is somewhat as follows. We
expect in all about 5,000 baggage animals—of
these some bullocks are coming from India, and
some ponies from Japan and Manilla ; but it is
understood that neither Spaniards nor Japanese
will allow any natives to accompany them, in which
case the animals must be entirely entrusted to.
the Military Train and Chinese coolies. The bat-
talion of the Military Traiu recently arrived from
England has been divided into three battalions, and
each of these into four companies. Each company
is to be provided with 375 baggage animals. It is
said that they have come oat quite unprovided with
gear of any sort, and that their first demand on
arrival in Hong Kong was for 5,000 sets of horse
clothing and 2,000 pack saddles ; their second, for
an increase of pay. Horse clothing in a country
where there are no horses is rather a difficulty, but
it might be supplied from India. 2,000 pack saddles
could perhaps be made up in Hong Kong in two
years. But I question whether the ponies of Japan
and Manilla ever saw a horsecloth, much less had
one on ; and if we bad pack-saddles and all the re-
quisite furnishings they would be of little use un-
less we had also animals trained to carry them and
men trained to load and drive the animals. It is
not an easy matter to do either. Any one who has
seen in India a refractory pack bullock, or rampant
baggage tatoo, will quite appreciate the difficulty;
and with untrained men and animals there would
be innumerable sore backs and unutterable chaos at

the very first start. It is therefore in contempla-
tion, I have heard, to abandon the idea of pack
animals, and to harness them all into carts, which
are expected from England.
Of the capabilities of the military train we have
as yet seen nothing, but from their splendid appear-
ance I should doubt very much their powers to
manage a bullock. The very idea of one of these
magnificently attired dragoons twisting the tail
and otherwise combating wrong-headed and ob-
streperous ox makes onesl a
shudder. Certainly they
look very well, and I should' imagine are tolerably
expensive. They have beautiful long sabres, and
long burnished spurs, and handsome uniforms, and
elaborate belts and pouches, and it is really quite
a pleasure to see them promenading the streets, and
to listen to the martial clank and rattle of their
polished steel scabbards. But it strikes me that a
coarse smock frock and leather leggings, a pith hel-
met and good stoutait
whip,s with a short sword and
w
revolver in the belt, though not so pretty,
would, perhaps, be more useful in contending with
the obstinate little animals on whom they are soon
to expend their uniforms and their energies.
However, John Bull is a complaisant creature and
likes to pay well for an article, and does not in-
quire too particularly as to its adaptation to the
work for which itwas'intended, and in this instance
he certainly has
plentyea show for his money.
Supplementary to the military toe
tie
‘c
or he military train we have the
Chinese Coolie Corps
they are facetiously Bamboo Rifles," as
' from the circumstance
of each carrying a stout I 3(
amboo, on which to hang
his burden. Of these •s,
taking five or six ve
may perhaps succeed in
thousandable-bodied
to the north with us.
They are strongbiela
should carry seventyepounds at least. Each coolie
is paid nine dollars p
and a suit of clothes gratis.rnensem, and gets his food
Chinese coolie here is six The average pay of a
dollars, without food or
clothes, so this high rate
race must be tempting to a
quite as fond of
amassing money as their
neighbours.
They are somewhat prone to desertion here,
especially after receiving advance of pay on en-
listment ; but if we once get ant them away from Hong
Kong, this inconvenient will probably
cease, as in the of Pe chi-li we are
taught to believe they will be quite as much
foreigners as ourselves. y'ls see then what we
have to depend upon for the land transport of
the whole force. If the country is found suitable for
wheeled carriages (a rather important condition,
which, by the way, seems quite uncertain—though
I have heard on good authority
that it is practica-
ble, at all events, for the wheelbarrows in which the ,
Chinese in these northern latitudes are accustomed
to travel), and if our bamboo rifle friends can be
kept together, we shall be able to move a portion
at least of our army by land, ,though it will never
n
be safe to get far frcmwater communication.
at
In the seas and the rivers, all events, till the
frosts set in we have constant allies, of which the
enemy cannot deprive us.
The Armstrong guns have created quite a furore,
down
and Hong Kong has beento Cowloon, en
masse, to see and to criticise thninThey are cer-
tainly very beautiful pieces of mechanism, and to
all appearances are as highlynished as one of
that h
Purday's best rifles. Those eve arrived are
12-pounders; and what strikes one most at first
sight is the lightness of their appearanceie and small-
ness of the bore, after having n always accus-
tomed to associate a certain calibre with a corre-
sponding diameter of tube.
I believe, myself, that at first we shall all be dis-
appointed with them, and for this
reason. We for
get that the astonishing precision
that has been
attained with these guns has been under the most
favourable possible circumstances,
ranges
and that the
accuracy of their fire at longdepends in a
very great measure on a commensurate accuracy in
judging the distance of the object fired at. For,
where you can measure to an inch the exact distance
from the muzzle of the gun to the tarts°et the ne-
cessary elevation can be determined with Mathema-
tical precision, and the result of the shot is certain;
but in field practice against an enemy it is a very
different affair. Then the nature of the ground,
smoke
the state of the atmosphere, the and dust
in action, the inexperience or inaccuracy of eye of
m the gun r, and, not least, the unpleasant whiz
of the enemy's shot through the air, ale all so many

disturbing causes which militate materially against
great accuracy in judging the correct distance.
If then we expect, as I believe that most of us
somewhat irrationally do, that the Armstrong gun
is to pick off a Tartar general or a Chinese man-
darin at every shot at a range of two miles, we
stand a very good chance of being disappointed—
not from any defect in the guns, but from our own
unreasonable expectations.
We have no news from Shanghai yet, but the
mail will arrive before I close this. The latest
shave from that quarter is that the Chinese Em-
peror, in replying to our ultimatum, stated that he
had no objection whatever to an English Ambas-
sador at Pekin, but that he must come by the same
route and be received in the same manner as the
American Ambassador who went there recently.
The reception is understood to have been not a
very dignified one. It is said that Mr. Ward was
carried through the streets of Pekin enclosed in a
sedan chair of approved construction, closed in, all
round, like a box, but with a round hole cut in
the roof, through which he made some interesting
observations of the heavenly bodies. The condi-
tions upon which he was to be admitted to " the
presence being that he was to knock his head an
indefinite number of times on the .ground, he came
back again with the unratified treaty in his pocket;
and a whole skull, neither much wiser nor much
better for his excursion.

April 23.—The Shanghai mail arrived last night,
but brings us no news of import. The English
Commander-in-Chief was to proceed to Chusa.n
on the 18th. As I told you before no opposition
was expected there, and the nest arrival will pro-
bably bring intelligence of the quiet occupation
of the island. by our troops. Kin-tang, where
they were to rendezvous, is a small island to the
west of Chusan, and not a town in the south of the
island, as I told you in my last.
24th. I will now finish this for the mail, which
closes this evening. The arrivals of troops since I
last wrote have been :-300 of the Ist Seikh Ca-
valry; 100 of Fane's Horse (Seikhs) ; Mowbray's
battery of Royal Artillery ; a detachment of Madras
Native Artillery, with a mountain train attached ;
the rest of her Majesty's 31st Foot ; head-quarters
and detachment of 60th Rifles; 87th Royal Irish.
Fusiliers • remainder of 21st Madras Native Infan-
try ; head-quarters and detachment of the 15th Pun-
jaub Infantry.
The only departure has been a battalion of the
Military Train to Japan for horses. The 60th
Rifles have landed at Stanley, on the other side of
the island, and are living in the barracks there.
The 87th have gone to Canton to relieve the 3d
Buffs, who will accompany the expedition to the
north. All the other troops have been landed at
Cowloon, where the camp is daily extending. Gen.
Napier has gone over there to-day to take the
command of that portion of the forces in the mean
time. The Seikhs are objects of great curiosity
to the Hong Kong people, and Cowloon is be-
coming quite a fashionable lounge in the 'after-
noon for idlers. The man-of-war steamer
Magicienne arrived yesterday from Singapore with
a transport in tow. On her way up se put into
a bay on the Cochin China coast for some
purpose or other, when one of her boats was flied
upon by a fort on the shore. A flag of truce was
sent in to demand an explanation, and that too was
fired upon. British navy officers have a rough
and ready way of returning such compliments, and
in acknowledgment of this eccentric proceeding the
gallant captain of the Magicienne ran in to within
good shooting distance, and having quietly demo-
lished the fort with his broadsides, proceeded on
his way rejoicing.
For the last few days the wind has been blowing
moderately from the south, and transports have
been coming in with a rush. To-day it has changed
again back to the north-east, and while it continues
in this quarter we need not look for many'arrivals.

TEE INSURRECTION. 1N SICILY.

The following letter from Palermo supplies us
with details respecting the close of the combat be-

tween the Sicilians and Garibaldi's volunteers and

the royal troops, and describes the first interview

between the general and General Lanza's delegates :
" At the termination of the fight on the morning
of the 27th, in which Garibaldi, at the head of his

cacciatori, drove in at the point of the bayonet the
post that defended tho San Antonino gate and
penetrated into the centre of the city, the roy3l
troops, abandoning the San Antonino Barracks,
the central square of the Four Cantons and the
Macqueda gate, then concentrated themselves at

headquarters. They thus formed a line extending
from St. Francis of Paul to the barracks opposite
the state prison.

" In the course of the evening this line was again
forced, and General Lanza, compelled to fall back
on the King's palace to the south of the city, found
himself thus cut off from the citadel by the entire
insurgent city. Such was the situation of

the iroops On the morning of the 28th.
During the day they further evacuated the prisons,
the Bagnio, and the barracks-before mentioned, and
they then took refuge at the extremity of the Mole,
where they cried out loudly for the boats of the
Neapolitan men of war to come and take them off,
which was done.

" During the evening, a brisk firing of musketry
was directed against the King's palace by the insur-
gents, who succeeded in entering the Archbishop's
palace, whence they fired on the soldiers, who were
compelled to abandon the Finanza Palace, and the
Ospitaletta, where they had hitherto kept their
positions. In the night numerous bands of armed
peasantry and mountaineers incessantly harassed
the royal troops, who had quitted the heights of
Monreale, and were encamped between the Capu-
cini and the village of Olivezza, thus preventing
them from coming up to the aid of General Lanza,
who was closely besieged in the King's palace.
" May 29.—The troops continue to maintain
themselves at the palace and in the citadel, whilst
Garibaldi, established at the Hotel de Ville, is tak-
ing various measures for organising and carrying
on the contest, Amongst other acts he decrees the
formation of a national guard, and the opening of a
subscription for the objects of the war. Moreover, an
ordinance signed by him and countersigned by the
president of the committee for the interior decrees
that " persons guilty of theft, assassination, and
robbery of any kind will be liable to the penalty of
death. They will be tried by the council of war."
Another decree prohibits all persons from passing
with arms in their hands through the streets unless
under the direction of a chief. Orders are likewise
issued that the police are not to be molested. A
provisional war committee is charged with the duty
of enlisting. Dr. Vicenzo Macalessa is appointed
commissioner of the province of Girgenti. A letter
received from the last named town announces that
the troops stationed there had fraternised with the
inhabitants.
" The insurgents take possession of four pieces of
cannon and a 12-pounder, which they found in the
prison barrack abandoned by the Neapolitans. The
five steamers that had left on the 28th for the port
of Termini return to Palermo without having been
able to land the 1,000 men they had on board. goats
bring them back to the citadel. During the even-
ing these troops make an unavailing attempt to go
to the aid of Gen. Lanza. Some sisters of St. Vin-
cent of Paul arrive from Naples during the day, to
nurse the wounded ; they cannot enter the city, and
go back on board the French steamer, the Mouette
in order to return to Naples.
"At nine o'clock p.m. the citadel re-opens its
fire, and an immense conflagration ensues near the
square of St. Dominick. The number of shells fired
at the city since the 27th, at six a.m., is calculated
at 3,000. More than 100 of them fell on the mar-
ket-halls, every shop of which is destroyed.
" May 30.—The troops, announced by the Official
Journal of the Two Similes to be in pursuit of Gari-
baldi, return from the Parco, and are received at
the Porta Reale by the baud commanded by La
Massa. Notice from the President of the Commit-
tee for the Interior is given that the postal service
will re-commence on the following day. A procla-
mation by Garibaldi summons all Sicilians to arms.
" At two o'clock a carriage surmounted with a
white flag arrives at the landing-place of the Quar-
antine. Gen. Letizia and the Brigadier Christiano,
delegated by Gen. Lanza, alight from it, and repair,
accompanied by Garibaldi, on board the English
ship Hannibal, where, besides Admiral Mundy,
there are the commanders of the Vauban and of the
American frigate Iroquois.
" Gen. Letizia declares that he has been sent to
demand an armistice, and proposes the following
conditions :—Retention of the respective positions ;
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pality shall address a petition to the royal commis-
sioner to solicit the granting of reforms and insti-
tutions necessary to the country.
" Garibaldi grants the first items ; but on his re-
fusal to entertain the last-named proposal the nego-
tiations are broken off.
" During the armistice, the wounded of the royal

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army are taken out of the citadel and conveyed on
board the vessels in the roadstead.

" The preparations of defence continue in the
city. The streets are barricaded, all the men are
armed ; priests and monks, mounted on the barri-
cades, appeal to the courage of the people.
" On the 31st, at noon, hostilities have not yet
re-commenced. There is a rumour that a truce has
been concluded for three days.

THE LATE G,4L_ES.

GREAT YARMOUTH, SATURDAY NiGHT.

The boats which on Monday last went to the
North Sea in search of the fishing vessels missing
from this port since the gale of the 28th ult. re-
turned yesterday and to-day, and we lament, to say
that the intelligence they bring but two truly con-
firms the worst apprehensions. The exploring
squadron, we are informed, first tried the coat of
Holland for about 80 or 90 miles south of the Texel,
then proceeding north of that island the same dis-
tance, as the southerly winds which have prevailed
since the gale would have carried any wreck in that
direction. At Nieudiep they learned that a quantity
of nets had been washed ashore, ascertained by
means of the marks on the cork to belong chiefly to
Lowestoft. They discovered no further traces of
the objects of which they were in search, except a
piece of a lugger's deck rail picked up on the Texel,
which they brought home, and which has been
identified as part of the Paymaster (missing). They
learnt that pieces of a lugger's mast and yard had
been washed ashore on the Dutch coast, but that
having no brand, they could not be identified. This,
therefore, is all that is now known, or probably
ever will be known, of 14 fishing vessels which left
Yarmouth and of six which left Lowestoft only a
fortnight ago with nearly 200 souls on board. Not
within living memory, nor, perhaps, within the
wreck history of this fatal coast, has this neigh-
bourhood been visited by so appalling a calamity.
On Yarmouth it will not fall more heavily than on
the little fishing villages of Caistor and Winterton,
to the north, which contribute a large quota of
hardy fellows to our fisheries. A public meeting
will be held here on Tuesday, in the Town-hall, for
the purpose of msking an appeal to the charitable
in behalf of the widows and orphans of the lost
crews—a step which has been delayed until the
result of the search for the missing was ascertained.
But where there aro so many sufferers—some 240
destitute women and children, it is calculated—the
town itself can do little, even did not its own severe
losses in the destruction of thousands of pounds of
property cramp its benevolence, unless the general
public come to its aid. With resDect to the baro-
metrical indications of the gale, we may mention
that a fishing vessel has seldom or never a barometer
on board, as each boat generally returns after a
night's catch ; and it is very questionable whether
the master ever regulates his movements by that
instrument.

REFOR.3I/12'ORY AND REFUGE UNION.

During two days of the past week the ground
floor of Willis's Rooms has been occupied by an
exhibition of articles manufactured by the inmates
of various reformatories, refuges, and industrial
schools. These articles, carefully arranged accord-
ing to the departments of industry which they re-
present, have been placed about the room, sur-
mounted with the banners inscribed with the name
of the institution from which they had proceeded.
Some of the works are seen in the prucess of manu-
facture, and the " Maida-hill Ragged and Indus-
trial Schools" distinguished themselves by a little
printing press, from which they produced handbills
for the inspection of the visitors. The exhibition,
which was also a bazaar, was a repetition of an ex-
periment made in a previous year by the "Refor-
matory and Refuge Union," and its results showed
a progress in the good work undertaken by the
society.

The "Reformatory and Refuge Union," as it is
called, was founded in the year 1856, as a centre of
encouragement for the reformatories, refuges, and
industrial schools throughout the United Kingdom,
having for its objects the collection and diffusion of
information connected with such institutions, the
promotion of new establishments, the selection and
training of preceptors, and a general superintend-
ence of religious, intellectual, and industrial educa-
tion. The fourth year of the " Union" was completed
on Wednesday, and a conrersa:ione was held on the
first floor at Willis's Rooms, over the exhibition, at
which addresses were delivered by the Earl of
Shaftesbury, who presided, Mr. Hanbury, and
others. From the statistical information com-
municated on the occasion it appears that there
are now 172 reformatories, Sc., in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, more than 40 of which have
been established since the committee of the
" Union" commenced their operations. No less, it
seems, than 11,000 boys and girls are now under
preventive and reformatory treatment, and these
returns are exclusive of the penitentiaries for wo-
men, which are more than 60 in number, and pro-
vide accommodation for 2,300 inmates.

Wednesday evening having been thus devoted to
the distinguished patrons and leaders of the
" Union," the exhibition on Thursday was followed
by an assembly of the teachers at the Reformatory
Schools, who took tea and heard speeches, under the
presidency of Mr. Hanbury. The gathering was
very numerous, and the worthy philanthropists
were enlivened by the performance of a variety of
popular tunes played by the bands respectively be-
longing to the " East London Shoe Black Society's
Refuge," the "Boys' Refuge," and the "North-
West London Training School." With an evident
predilection for the brazen departments of musical
practice, these little fellows, who were disciplined
in military fashion, played with surprising nerve ;
and the prayer with which the more serious pro.
ceedings commenced was vigorously ushered in by
the well-known march from " Norma." This might
be considered the conversazione of the teachers.