The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-12 00:00:00

BER 111dJES2'Y'S JUVENILE BALL.

THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1860.

Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN has committed an un-
pardonable sin—he is only Governor of Madras,
and he has dared to differ from Governor-General
Lord CANNING, and not only to differ, but to publish
the minute specifying the nature of his differences
and the reasons for them. Mr. WILSON'S Finance
Scheme had been made public with the imprimatur
of the Calcutta Vice Royalty ; on the whole
it was approved, and Government Securities
improved in value, because the Government
showed a determination to raise tile required
revenue. Some doubt was• indeed expressed
as to how the new taxes were to be col-
lected ; it did not seem quite certain that the
natives would be easily squeezed, still the native
money lenders, who might be presumed to know
their countrymen best, bought immediately at a
premium, the Government stock which they
would hardly look at before. For ourselves we
read Mr. WILSON'S speebb, and were pleased
with it, reserving, of course, our judgment till
we should hear both sides of a question on which
few Englishmen can affect ready and complete

knowledge.
The other side has now come to us in a form which
we did not certainly expect at the time. We shall
not, however, enter much into the question of Sir
C. TREVELYAN'S breach of the proprieties. We
may confess, till we hear explanations, that it
seems very much like the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire-
land publishing to that excitable country a critique
on the budget introduced by her -MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment, and pointing out to Ireland, and thus to
the Ministry and his Sovereign, a more excellent
way. Sir C. TREVELYAN has been dealt with as
Lord ELLENBOROUGII was before him. We shall
doubtless soon hear from him his own justification
of what he has done. His recall will have the result
place a me.n of tried merits, but one
of putting in his
far less likely to improve our Indian Administration.
The Indian pro-consuls seem indeed to be efficient
in proportion to their independence of Calcutta. We
all know what Sir JoIiN LAWRENCE did when
Lord CANNING was physically unable to interfere
with his movements; and we may bo pretty sure
that had he not acted thus unfetteredly, his name
would not have acquired greater renown than
could be conferred by the p. erase which has been
so jealously denied him—refused, lest as a peer he
should supersede some needy lord, by the universal
demand to make " Lord LAWRENCE'' our Indian
Viceroy. Sir Ch ARLEs TREVELYAN also shares
this feeling of independence. Hardly had he been
seated firmly on the throne of his tetrarchy than
he abolished with a stroke of his pen the entire
system which used to irritate so greatly the

energetic Sir CHARLES NAPIER—the system of
doing everything by writing, and, as if that were
not enough, of doing it in duplicate and in tripli-
cate. Indian business of all kinds was done on a
more time-wasting plan than that of our unre-
formed Chancery proceedings. Sir C. TREVELYAN
brought it to something like common sense. The
mistake in the present case was that he strained
independence into insubordination.
We are told that the Calcutta Government, with
Mr. WILSON as their calculating machine, must
have better information and more capacity to use
it than Sir CHARLES. That, however, we shall
know better about after discussion. At present
his minute seems to contain most weighty conside-
rations, which cannot be answered by merely
saying, " they know best at Calcutta." His
minute, indeed, may be regarded as the reply to
the attacks made by Mr. WILSON on the views ex-
pressed by him previously to the promulgation of
the budget of the Indian Chancellor of the
Exchequer. His chief defence at present is that
had he protested secretly to Calcutta, he would
have sacrificed Madras, and he preferred to sacrifice
himself.
Sir CHARLES does not seem to think the new
taxes—the income tax, license tax, and tobacco
tax, necessary. He argues that the debt is not
heavy, but 21 to 1 on the revenue, while that of
England is about 11 to 1. He would accept the
debt as it stands. He denies that the opium re-
venue is precarious ; it has gone on increasing ever
since he knew it, and could hardly fall off sud-
denly. He also objects to the deficit being accepted
at £6,500,000, without some detailed proof of it.
He, as responsible for the government of 30,000,000
of the inhabitants of India, thinks he ought to
know why they are called on to make good such a
deficit. Even admitting it, however, to be correct,
he shows that, as the Exchequer balances are
£6,000,000 in excess of what they were last year
at this time, there is no need for precipitation.
He then argues for the policy of reduction of
expenditure. Our vast military establishments
afford ample scope for this. The army now costs
£8,519,227 more than it did in the year before the
mutiny! This is the source of revenue to which
Sir CHARLES would look. His reasons certainly
appear conclusive. We have no need now for the
vast native army we have again collected—it may,
indeed, soon be again a source of danger. Circum-
stances favour its disbandment, for the price of
labour is rising, and the native soldiers would, in
large numbers, desire to return to their occupations.
At the same time the increased cost of provisions
renders the maintenance of the army more expen-
sive. To disband our native armies is, in fact, to
convert tax-consumers into producers and tax-
payers, with advantage to all. But how will
red-tapeism answer the proposal of Sir CHARLES
to raise more money in the Madras Presidency,
and with less offence, in his own way, than the
magnates of Calcutta want to force him to raise in
theirs ? The Madras people think it bard to be
saddled with additional taxes, and taxes, too, which
are annoying to their prejudices, for the cost of a
mutiny which they did not share, but contributed
aid to suppress. On the proposed plan swarms of
harpies will be let loose on the people, while Sir
CHARLES says that in Madras a series of well-con-
sidered reforms are in progress, which, if carried
into execution, will change the face Of Southern
India; and he asserts that, if the people are allowed
to pursue their course, the Government of Madras
"will undertake- to realise, by reduction of expendi-
ture, more than the most sanguine estimates that
can be formed of the net revenue derivable from the
three proposed taxes in the Presidency."
We may conceive how offensive such proposals
must be to the hundreds of Europeans who will be
affected by them ; and how high authority must
kick at being thus openly admonished by a subor-
dinate, but if the matter comes before the Parlia-
ment of England, it surely will not be tolerated
that good measures should be rejected merely to
spare the sensitiveness of the Viceroy and his
council at Calcutta. Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN'S
recal may be unavoidable ; indeed, Mr. BRIGHT
stated that ho believed it would be found that he
himself so felt the incompatibility of his act, with
his position, that he believed ho had resigened.
There seemed, indeed, an unusually fair disposition
to wards all parties in the House last night. Mr.
WILSON, Sir C. TREVELYAN, the Indian Home
Secretary, all received, their due share of commen-
dation. But, we hope, the result will be the
triumph of Sir C. TREVELYAN'S policy—that of
reducing our vast, our costly, and our dangerous
native army, as the best way of balancing Indian
revenue ar.d expenditure.

There seems to be a curse upon our precious gun-
boats from first to last—but we hope the last will
be very far off. The public will remember that,
when these same gun-boats were absolutely wanted,
there were none ready. And, what is worse still,
none were ordered to be got ready. The demand
was still, " They don't come" to the Baltic, and
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, with his splendid fleet, was
unable to walk ashore after the Russian coasters.
No; he wrote and wrote home for gun-boats, and
was answered, they were being got ready—that
they were building, and would be with him in good
time. But that good time never came. In
fact it was not intended that any boats should
be sent—but yet the boats were being built to
save appearances and ward off the growing public
indignation from the Admiralty, of which that
eminent civilian, Sir JAMES GEORGE GRAILIM, was
the First Lord, and a precious use he made of his
position. He wrote public despatches to Sir CHAS.
NAPIER to do certain acts, and also wrote private
despatches forbidding him to do anything of the
sort, or injunctions to that effect—the one being
intended to neutralise the other !

This game went on to the mortification of the
one and to the perfect mystification of the other,
who played at hide-and-seek, or do and undo, to
his own admired satisfaction. Well, the end of the
matter was—that no gunboats were sent for fear
that, by their agency, the Russian fleet might be
destroyed; and such a direful contingency was
very much to be deprecated by our German friends,
who acted behind the scenes, and pulled every
string in aid of the Father:and and its Russian
kindred blood. In fact, so far was the underhand
complicity carried, that the ' neutral Prussian
was made the daily messenger of mutual commu-
nication for the benefit of the Russian enemy. Nay,
more, even -the French, our magnanimous ally,
was so far tutored or intrigued into the secret that
the combined Admirals in the Baltic were made to
disagree on every point of attack much in the same
way as in the Black Sea. The fleet in Cronstadt
must not be sacrificed any more than Odessa be
bombarded—save at a very saving distance. New
all this grand war ended as it began, in smoke—and
England had to pay the piper for playing to the
tune of " 0 ver the water to CHARLIE !" for not
Paying the Russians their due reward. In fact,
there was "no luck" about the 'war at all. It was
a make-believe all through; and peace was abruptly
patched up just as the gunboats were ready for
finishing the war with credit and with profit.

No wonder, then, that the public should feel sore
at the extravagance of cost in our dockyards and

all that relates to the navy. Everything seems to
be made a job of for some private political purpose,
and mystery reigns enveloped in its grand obscure,
never to be found out, till too late for any present
punishment or future obloquy, when the perpetra-
tors are beyond account. People shrug their
shoulders, and exclaim that this is " too bad"—and
there the matter rests;

But what shall we say of these precious gun-
boats ? What, indeed !—" thus bad begins, but
worse remains behind." These same gunboats were
" got up," as the saying is, in a dreadful hurry, just
in order to be too late. So many were wanted
that our own Government yards could not produce
them in ten years, and so all the most emi-
nent private yards in the kingdom were pressed
into the service to hasten their equipment.
There was no time to be lost, and no ex-
pense spared—the sooner done the better, and
the sooner paid of course. After having wasted
two years before the order was given, it was
found that the private yards were not pro-
vided with seasoned timber. "No matter "
was the reply—" build them, build them of any
wood you have," and so they were built of green
wood—cut down but yesterday. Well that was
considered good enough for vessels to be sunk to
the bottom, as it was calculated they would be, by
the " long Russian guns," of which some of our
great commanders seemed to have a very respectful
apprehension.
And what has been the consequence of all
this "much to do about nothing ?" Just
what might have been expected. The gunboats
were not to be sacrificed to the Russians,
but, doomed to a more inglorious fate, they were
hung up on dry land to encounter the dry rot.
And there they rot to their heart's content—a
wonder and a shame to our pockets' forlorn
loss. And this is the way the money goes—all
stir but little or no progress. Well might the
House of Commons stare at the tardy—unwilling
confession of the gallant Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, who hoped matters were not
so bad as reported—with fancy bolt heads of cop-
per outside and iron deceivers within—much re-
sembling the fronts of brass and feet of clay.

Already, on Thursday evening, we took occasion
to comment in general terms upon the results of
the latest examination of candidates for matricula-
tion in the London University—results made known
upon the preceding forenoon at Burlington House,
Piccadilly. We are induced to revert for a few
moments to this deeply interesting scholastic exhi-
bition, for the purpose simply of directing attention
more particularly to some of the remarks uttered
upon that occasion by the accomplished President
of the Council, the Earl GRANVILLE. One portion
of the noble lord's harangue it was hardly possible,
with a remembrance of his own recent domestic
affliction, to listen to without a respectful sympathy
for the emotions which were there and then invo-
luntarily evidenced. It was in a subsequent part
of his address, Lord GRANVILLE, forgetting for a
while his individual sorrows, recovered somewhat
of his constitutional vivacity. It was in this mood,
for example, that he made the humorous acknow-
ledgment, that "in addressing them last year he
had the great advantage of being in the Op-
position ; but that now ho was connected with
the Government." Adding, quite frankly—" He
felt that it was easier to criticise than to
perform." In testimony of which he went
on at once to avow in a sort of loud-whispered
confession—" Last year he found fault with the
Government for not hg.ving sufficiently compre-
hensive views with regard to this University,
and for not providing the members with a better
habitation, and also not giving them a Parlia-
mentary representative." And further he said,
" On that occasion he quoted COWLEY'S descrip-
tion of what a university should be, with its quad-
rangles, halls, chapels, dining-rooms, &c., but now
he was compelled to descend from the poetic region
of COWLEY to the prosaic dulness of Downing-
street." If the rest of Lord GRANVILLE'S colleagues
would but speak out as frankly and confidentially
to the public, what wonderful confessions and reve-
lations we should have ! But as if in this instance
the President of the Council had not been suffi-
ciently explicit in his confidences, he added imme-
diately after the burst of laughter that followed his
last apologetic acknowledgment that, " Owing to
his connection with the Government, he was now
unable to answer as to what the nature and extent
of their future habitation would be." Observing
that with respect to the representation, while he
for his own part would much have pre-
ferred a double representation, he assured
his hearers that " the pledge of the Go-
vernment as to one member would be fulfilled,
and had been provided for in the Reform Bill."
Adding, " he felt considerable satisfaction in the
circumstance that during the protracted debates on
the Reform Bill no objection whatever had been
taken to the proposal to have a representative in
Parliament for the London University." Lord
GRANVILLE further trusted, he said, " that Par-
liament would settle the long agitated question in
the present session." While speaking thus plainly
as to his hopes and expectations as to the destined
share of the London University in our system of
Parliamentary representation, Lord GRANVILLE
admitted that " it would be imprudent in him to
count the one chicken before it was hatched, or in
any way interfere with the choice which the Uni-
versity might make in the selection of its repre-
sentative; but he hoped," he said, "that their
choice would be uninfluenced by party spirit, and
that they would send to the House of Commons a
man who would not only be qualified to promote
local interests, but also those of literature and
science." So that, literally, while disclaiming any
intention to count the one chicken before it was
hatched, Lord GRANVILLE was, nevertheless,
naively speculating as to the colour of its plumage,
as to the scope of its song, and, though itself not
yet hatched, as to its own after-capacity for
incubation !

The Queen gave a child's ball last evening at Bucking-
ham Palace. The juveniles honoured with invitations
were between 6 and 14 years of age, and were accompanied
by their parents or relatives. About 260 were invited.
The company began to arrive at half-past eight o'clock,
and assembled in the Picture Gallery, Green Drawing
Room, and Promenade Gallery.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary arrived soon after nine o'clock, and were
conducted to the White Drawing Room, where her Majesty
received her illustrious guests. Their Royal Highnesses
the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale were also present.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by the
Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Prin-
cesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Princess Mary, the Duke of Cambridge, the
Duke de Nemours, the Princess Marguerite, the Duke and
Duchess d'Aumale, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen,
were conducted about nine o'clock to the Banquetting
Room, which was prepared for dancing.
The Queen wore a dress of black crape with flounces
trimmed with jet. Her Majesty wore a jet circlet and
black fl)wers as a headdress.

The Princess Alice wore a black dress of crape and tulle
over black silk, trimmed with bugles. Her royal highness's
headdress was formed of a wreath of lilies of the valley and
camelias ; ornaments, diamonds.

The Princesses Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, wore dresses
of white tulle over glace silk, trimmed with lilies of the
valley.
Their royal highnesses wore wreaths of the same.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a black tulle dress,
the upper skirt festooned with large bows of ribbon,
trimmed 'with jet; the corsage to correspond; diamond
necklace, earriNgs, and stomacher. Her royal highness's
headdress was composed of wreaths of cherries, with dia-
mond ornaments.

The Queen's private band was in attendance, and dancing
commenced immediately after the entrance of her Majesty
and the illustrious party.

His Excellency the Count Persigny arrived at
Albert-gate House on Thursday, from Paris.
His Excellency Chevalier Canofari and Madame
Canofari have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, from Paris. '

The Earl and Countess of Lisburne and Lady
Elizabeth Vaughan have arrived at Fenton's Hotel, from
Crosswood, South Wales.
The Earl and Countess Vane have arrived in
town. His lordship has taken a residence at Prince's-gate
for the season.

Lord b.nd. Lady Hawke and family have arrived
at the West Cliff Hotel, Folkestone. Mr. and Mrs. Tolle-
macho have left the same establishment for the Continent.

The Bishop of Durham and the Misses Longley
have arrived in Arlington-street for the season.

THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.—The Right
Rev. Charles Thomas Longley, Bishop of Durham, who
has been nominated to the Archbishopric of York, rendered
vacant by the death of the Most Rev. Dr, Musgrave, was
born at Rochester in 1794. He was educated at Westmin-
ster School, whence he proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford,
where he gained a studentship in 1812. In 1815 he took
his degree of Bachelor of Arts, being first class in classics,
and was public tutor of Christ Church from 1818 until
1828. Prior to his resignation of the tutorship—namely,
in 1827—he was presented by Mr. C. B. 'Wall, the then
patron, to the rectory of West Tytherley, near Stockbridge,
Hampshire, which he held until 1829, when he was ap-
pointed to the head-mastership of Harrow School. This
appointment he held until 1836, in which year the act was
passed constituting the new Bishopric of Ripon. Dr.
Longley was appointed the first bishop, and held the
•bishopric until 1856, when, upon the resignation of Bishop
Maltby, ho was translated to the Bishopric of Durham.
The new archbishop is the son of Mr. John Longley, late
Recorder of Rochester, and subsequently a magistrate of
the Thames Police-court. He married, in 1831, the llon.
Caroline, eldest daughter of the first Lord Congleton.

TILE VOCAL ASSOCIATION.—At the performance
of the Vocal Association, on Wednesday evening, the 16th
inst., at St. James's-hall, the principal artists from her
Majesty's Theatre will appear by the kind permission of
E. T. Smith, Esq.

The foreign journals state that a new monetary
unit has been ( stablished for the province of Finland,
called a." marka," and worth one-fourth of a silver rouble.
A telegram from Madrid states that money is at
present abundant in that capital, and that the National
Bank are expected shortly to reduce their rate of discount
from 5 to 41 per cent.

It is stated that the amount thus far ascertained
to have been paid by Pullinger to the person oatside the
Stock Exchange who carried on some of his operations,
and who is since deceased, is £57,000.
THE LANDED ESTATES COURT OF IRELAND.—
Upwards of £40,000 worth of property was sold yesterday
before Judge Dobbs. It is reported that a great number of
petitions for sales are under consideration, and that there
is every prospect of renewed activity in the land-market
before the close of the current year.

THE IRISH LAW ADVISER.—The Evening Post
states that Mr. Sergeant Lawson—overwhelmed by the
extent of his professional practice—is about to resign the
post of Law Adviser to the Irish Government. It is re.
ported that Mr. De Maleyns, Q.C., is to be the successor of
the learned sergeant. The appointment would be a good
one.

It will be seen by the Gazette of last evening that
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey has been appointed
to the command of the 3d Buffs, and Major-General Sir J.
E. Wilmot Inglis to the command of the 32d Regiment.
Nothing can be more appropriate than tha appointment of
General Inglis to the command of the 32d, the gallant regi-
ment whose last and greatest exploit was the defence of
Lucknow, under the command of its new colonel; but the
appointment :of the Hon. Charles Grey to the gallant
Buffs, though equally intelligible, does not seem equally
appropriate. Unless the Army List does the officer great
injustice, he has never had the advantage of any more dis-
tinguished servico, than is to be seen in Hyde Park or at
Windsor, as Equerry to the Queen.—Times.

- -
Sir Henry George Ward has been appointed to
succeed Sir Charles Trevelyan as Governor of Madras. The
career of Sir Henry Ward will be familiar to many of our
readers. The son of the late Robert Plumer "Ward, whose
Memoirs were published some years since, Sir H. Waid was
first employed in diplomacy under Mr. Canning, and was
appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to acknowledge the
Mexican Republic. Ile was then for many years in Par-
liament, always conspicuous on the Liberal side, and espe-
cially distinguished as the mover of the resolutions upon
the Irish Church, which in 1834 led to the secession of a
portion of the "Whig Ministry. Sir 11. Ward was Secretary
to the Admiralty in Lord John Russell's Government from
1846 to 1819, in which latter year he was appointed Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. He held this
offi cepurlonnNt'otilhkeleBdi bys°sn when he was appointed Governor of Cey-
lon.jam Islands he had to suppress an insurrec-
tion sympathisers from Greece, and the seve-
rity with which he quelled a rebellion that seemed formid-
able at a time of successful revolt provoked much discus-
sion in Parliament, though it was not cbtlicia ly condemned.
In Ceylon, however, his administration has been most suc-
eanr and
gives
promise of an equally prosperous reign
e Presidency of the neighbouring continent.—
iern7ichif:les a

THE LATE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—On Thurs-
day the Liverpool borough coroner opened an inquiry into
the death of a lad named Patrick :Healey, who it was al-
leged had been murdered by two youths named William
isl'Millan and James Halloran. It appeared that the de-
ceased was passing along Bispham-street, on Wednesday
night week, when he was set upon by .I.P.Millan and Hal-
loran, both of whom repeatedly struck Mealey on the head
and face with a poker until he became senseless. Ho was
lett lying in the street until some people passing along had
him taken up and conveyed to the residence of his mother,
a widow. The poor fellow lingered until Saturday night,
'when he died. The above facts were corroborated by several
witnesses. Dr. Warburton, who had made a post mortem
examination of the body, stated that lie found several
wounds on the head and face ; the skull was fractured near
the vertex, and there was extravasation of blood upon the
scalp. In his opinion death was caused by concussion of
the brain, the result of external violence. After a short
consultation the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful mur-
der" against William I‘l'Millan and James Halloran, who
were then committed for trial at the next South Lanca-
shire assizes.

SUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCE AT PETERBOROUGH.—
Considerable excitement has been caused in this city and
neighbourhood by the proceedings of a coroner's jury, which
has held three sittings during the week. It was summoned
to inquire into the death of a fine young woman, 18 years
of age, named Mary Jane Pope. She is the daughter of
respectable parents, and on Sunday attended the Baptist
Chapel. During the service she was taken ill, lost the use
of her legs, and was convulsed. Being removed home, a
surgeon was sent for, and afterwards a physician. Both
these gentlemen came to inder endent conclusions that the
girl had been poisbned. She, however, denied having taken
anything. Death ensued in a short time after the
seizure, and the symptoms of the attack and he
rigidity which set in directly after death confirming the
suspicions of poisoning, an inquest was held. The post
mortem examination strengthened the opinion of the medi-
cal gentlemen, and led them to conclude that she had died
from the effects of strychnine. It was ascertained that on
Saturday deceased purchased sixpennyworth, of Buttle's
vermin powder, but n o motive for suicide seems to exist.
From the evidence given to the jury it appears that in 1854
an infant of the same family died suddenly of convulsions,
that in April last another child died after a short illness
showing similar symptoms, and that last week, a boy, eight
years of age, was seized with convulsions exactly corre-
sponding to those under which the deceased girl laboured;
but prompt medical assistance being obtained, he recovered.
It is also known that of a family of eleven children four
only are now living. Uncter these circumstances the co-
roner and jury have submitted the intestines and other por-
tions of the body of Mary Pope to Dr. Letheby for analysis,
and the inquest is adjourned for a week.
THE ABERDEEN FAILURE.—At the meeting of
the creditors of the firm of John and Anthony Blaikie, ad-
vocates, held in the Royal Hotel, Aberdeen, on Wednesday,
Mr. Archibald Borthwick, C.A., Edinburgh, was appointed
trustee upon the sequestrated estate. Messrs. Newell Bur-
net, advocate, Horn, of Pitmedden, and W. Adamson,
sharebroker, Aberdeen, were at the same time named as
the commissioners. Several claims were given in, but no
approximation was made as to the actual state of affairs.
See /sawn.

' THE ESCAPE FROM NEWCASTLE GAOL.---A meet-
ing of magistrates was held at the Manors' Police station,
at 1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, when tho case of the
late escape from gaol again came under their consideration.
Mr. Wood, the deputy-governor, was suspended from his
office for a period of ono week after the expiration of the
time far which he was first suspenfied, and the turnkey,
Porter, was dismissed from his offile. Mr. Robins, the
new governor, arrived at the gaol on Monday, and on the
fAlowing day he relieved Mr.Selbage of the onerous duties
which, since the escape of Douglas, that gentleman has
assiduously performed,—/Vetveasek Chronicle.

LATEST

.NEIV S.

The following telegrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

PARIS, MAY 12.

The 21Ioniteur announces that in yesterday's
sitting of the Leglislative body the report on the
new tariff for sugar and coffee was made to the
Chamber by the committee which had examined it.

TURIN, MAY 11.

It is asserted that the vessels composing General
Garibaldi's expedition have touched at Talmona, in
Tuscany, in order to take in provisions, to put the
combatants in better condition, and to add some
officers to their ranks. The vessels then set out
again.

GENOA, MAY 11.

Advices have been received from Messina to the
7th instant, Palermo to the 6th instant, and Naples
to the Bth instant.

It was rumoured that an insurrectionary move-
ment had taken place in Calabria, to which pro-
vince troops had been sent. The insurrection in
Sicily was said to have spread from Cefalu to Mar-
sala. Palermo and Messina were destitute of pro-
visions, and a steamboat service had been organised
by Government for the supply of necessaries to
those places. Disembarkations of insurgents coming
from different parts of Sicily and Calabria had
taken place at Trapani. Naples was tranquil, but
little confidence prevailed.

TURIN, MAY 11.

The fall in the public funds continue. Sardinian
Rente is quoted to-day at 82f. 50c. for cash. Great
perplexity prevails concerning the issue of General
Garibaldi's expedition.

DRESDEN, MAY 11.

The Official Dresden Journal, in reference to the
news published by the .Yurnberger Correspondenten,
states that the Government of Saxony has received
no overtures on the part of France respecting the
interior affairs of Germany ; and adds, it has
reason to believe that none have been made to other
German governments.

ROME, MAY 10.

Nothing justifies the reports again in circulation
of an approaching resignation of CardinalAntonelli,
whose ministerial position remains unshaken.
Some members of the Sacred College have sug-
gested to the Pope the convocation of an assembly
at Rome, in which every Catholic power should be
represented by some political or administrative
person of note. This assembly, after examining
the real state of affairs in the Papal States, would
point out what reforms could be carried out and
what could not.

The Holy Father appears much pleased with the
idea, which, if realised, would make the Catholic
world co-operate in the administration of the States
of the Church.

CHINA.

SHANGHAI, 'VIA TRIESTE, MARCH 23.

The import trade is paralysed, and virtually sus-
pended in consequence of the movements of the
rebels, who are reported to have taken Hangchaw.
It is also rumoured that a collision has taken place
between the Russians and Chinese on the frontier.
Silk, No. 3 Tsatla, 415 to 425 taels: Settlements
in fortnight, 2,800 bales. Exchange on London,
6s. 6d. to Cs. 7d.

Freights for tea, 30a. to 40s. ; silk, 70s.

CANTON, MARCH 29.

The ultimatum was delivered to the Chinese
authorities on the Bth March. An answer is ex-
pected in the course of the week. Sir Hope Grant
leaves shortly for Shanghai, an a the allies will
occupy Chusan immediately. Business is partially
suspended owing to the movements of the insur-
gents.

The foreigners in Japan go about armed, and a
guard from a Russian corvette has been landed at
Veranagamra for their protection.
Tea unaltered. Stock, 6 chops. Freights ad-
vancing, England £3 per ton. Total export of tea,
1,221,0001b5. Exchange on London, 4s. 9id.

CALCUTTA, APRIL 7.

Sir Charles Trevolyan and all the members of
the Madras Government strongly oppose Mr. Wil-
son's financial scheme, and have published minutes
to that effect.
Imports dull; money easier.

GARIBALDI'S EXPEDITION.
A letter from Turin, dated May 9, says :—The
Diritto of this morning publishes the following
document, which will be read with some interest in
England:—

" Genoa, May 5.
" My dear Bertani,—As I am once more about
to take a share in the events which are to decide the
destinies of the country, I leave the ensuing direc-
tions with you :
" To collect all the means you may obtain,
to aid us in our enterprise ; to give the Italians
to understand that if we receive proper assist-
ance Italy will be made in a short time, and
with little cost ; but that a few barren subscrip-
tions will not acquit them of their duty ; that
that part of Italy which is free to-day should
have, not 100,000, but 500,000 men under
arms, the latter number being by no means out
of proportion with the population; that it is a pro-
portion attained even by States which have not
their independence to secure by conquest. Let
Italy have such an army, and she will have no need
of foreign masters, sure to eat her up piecemeal
under the pretence of freeing her; that wherever
there are Italians fighting against their oppressors,
there all brave men should be sent, supplying them
with means for the journey ; that the Sicilian in-
surrection should be aided, not in Sicily alone, but
wherever her enemies may be met.
" I never advised this Sicilian movement ; but,
since these brethren of ours are fighting, I deemed
it my duty to go to their rescue.
" O-ur war-cry will always be, ' Italy and Victor
Emmanuel!' I hope even at this juncture the
Italian banner will be borne out unscatched.—Yours,
affectionately,

" G. GARIBALDI."

This letter is in better taste than many of the
guerillero's late effusions. It is not unlikely Sicily
or the Southern Kingdom will offer that brae man
a field, enabling him to retrieve the fine character
which Parliamentary and matrimonial mishaps
have partly, though not justly, damaged. Garibaldi
is no man to be measured by the common standard.
What would be mere rashness and stark-madness
in another is no more than faith in his good star
in him. He is not made for fine speeches or even
written addresses, but his mere impulse in action
is better than other men's caution and forethought.
He will in all probability, be beaten in all the
dbnstituencies in which his friends put up his
name against Ministerial candidates, for Ca-
your or Cavour's friends are not willing
to be again brought into the lists with
so uncouth and, uncompromising a debater. Be-
tween Italy's champion, who has nothing to give for
her but a charmed life, and is ready to risk it in the
most desperate encounters, and Italy's diplomatist,
who flatters himself he can beat all her enemies by
outwitting them, there can be nothing in common.
By this time they may be looked upon as irrecon-
cilable enemies, and I am even told, though I will
'never believe it, that the utmost has been done
to estrange the heart of King Victor Emmanuel
from his self-sacrificing leader of the forlorn hope, by
rousing into the upright, but perhaps over-confiding
mind -of the King, a jealousy of the Nizzax d adven-
turer akin to the feelings of Saul for young David.

There are those who would even assure me that the
King evinced some vexation, as he proceeded on his
ovations through Central Italy, whenever the name
of the hero of Varese happened to be coupled in the
people's outcry with that of the conqueror of San
Martino. I will never think so meanly of Victor
Emmanuel, I say, and at any rate it is very clear
from the above letter that Garibaldi does not reci-
procate the feeling, and, whatever may be his frame
of mind with respect to the King's advisers, he still
is, and I believe will ever be, stanch to the King.
The evening papers publish another proclama-
tion of Garibaldi :
"Italian Soldiers !—For some centuries the want
of concord and discipline led to grievous calamities
for our country. Today nothing can be more ad-
mirable than the unanimity which breaths through
the whole population, from the Alps to Sicily.
Our discipline leaves yet something for us to
wish, although both of discipline and valour you
gave such
instances as may enable the nation to re-
organ ise itself, and appear in a compact unity to
those who would enslave it.

" Persevere in your union, Italian youths ! ye
glorious remnants of the battles fought for your
country ! Remember that in the North (Venetia)
we have still enemies and enslaved brethren; and
that the people in the South, when rid of the Pope
and the Bourbon, will need your well•organised
martial example to prepare for greater conflicts.
"In the name of the reviving country I recom-
mend, therefore, the youth whose presence fills the
ranks of our brave army not to fall away from those
ranks, but rather to rally closer under their able
commanders, and that Victor, whose bravery may
be staggered for one moment by pusillanimous ad-
visers, but will soon resume his ascendancy, and
taking the lead once more, show the way to a cer-
tain and final victory.

" GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI."

The tone in which Garibaldi spoke to those who
urged upon him the desperate character of his enter-
prise touched upon that sublimity which may seem
akin to madness. To those who called his attention
to the chances of meeting with the Neapolitan
cruisers he talked about the feasibility of boarding
the Neapolitan frigates, and taking possession of
them one after another. His most prudent adviser,
Medici, did not join him. I saw him walking with
Malenchini this afternoon under the Turin colon-
nades. There was a rumour to-day that Garibaldi
had landed at Telamone, near Piombino, on the
Tuscan coast. He is evidently beating about, so as
to bewilder with his movements and lead astray the
Neapolitan navy.

The Siecle publishes a letter from M. Joseph
Ricciardi, a friend of Garibaldi, giving ;the follow-
ing particulars respecting the departure of the ex•
pedition to Sicily :

" Genoa, May 8.
" The evening before last, I and several others
were at General Garibaldi's, at Quarto, and at 10
o'clock we took boats to go on board the steamers
Piemonte and Lombardo, which were to arrive
from Genoa with the principal body of the expedi-
tion. Five hours passed without any vessel coming
in sight, and it was not till three in the morn-
ing that the two steamers at last made their ap-
pearance, aid the embarkation took place. Not-
withstanding my delicate health, and in spite of
General Garibaldi's counsels, I had persisted in my
determination to go with him, for the very simple
reason that my name is' subscribed to the pro-
clamations addressed to the inhabitants of the
kingdom of Naples ; but five hours passed in the
open air during a very cold night, and without
a cloak, brought back all my pains, and, to my
great chagrin, I was obliged to return to Genoa,
whence I now address you. I know that the expe-
dition sailed yesterday morning at seven, an d
by this time it must have joined the Giglio, man-
ned by a good number of resolute men, and laden
with arms and ammunition, procured at Leghorn
and at Elba. From what I was able to see on
board the Lombardo, I estimate at about 1,200
the number of volunteers who have responded to
Garibaldi's call. I even noticed a few soldiers and
some officers in uniform. I will tell you on this
subject that it was found necessary to confine the
garrison of Genoa to their barracks to prevent the
soldiers joining the expedition in such numbers as
to give the affair a very serious aspect. Such is
the confidence inspired by Garibaldi that no one
doubts of the success of the glorious enterprise on
which the fate of Italy depends. I authorise you
to publish all flee details here given, even with my
signature. There is some question of a second ex-
pedition, but I think the first will suffice."
The Opinione Nationale also gives some particu-
lars contained in a letter which it had received :

"It was, says an eye-witness, and the author of
this letter, a deeply affecting scene. They as-
sembled in a beautiful night at a villa on the sea
shore, at some leagues from Genoa. They were, I
am told, about 2,000 in number, but what is cer-
tain is that all the elleys of the immense garden
were filled with groups of volunteers, who moved
down to the beach laden with muskets and cases of
ammunition, which they placed on board boats for
conveyance to the vessels in the offing, and all this
without a word being spoken, except a few neces-
sary orders given almost in a whisper. Every one
was serious ; there were no cries, none of the en-
thusiasm of parade, but on every countenance
the expression of strong energy and deep con-
viction. It is only when at sea that Garibaldi will
issue his orders. He must have had some brilliant
plan in his head, which he has not hitherto revealed
to any one, for his -countenance was radiant. They
left some hours after midnight, favoured by the
most delightful weather."

The same letter states that Garibaldi takes with
him his only son, regretting, as he said, that he had
not ten, in order to take them all. George Manin,
son of the President of the Republic of Venice, also
accompanies him, and will be specially attached to
his person.

The Espero of Turin, speaking of the men who
have joined Garibaldi in his expedition, says :

" Some of them are dressed in red blouses and
felt hats like those worn in the Tyrol ; others have
long grey frock-coats. There are 150 besaglieri
among them, armed with the best rifles that could
be obtained. Most of these volunteers •have made
the last campaigns in Italy. MM. Nino Bixio and
Sirtori have joined the expedition."
A letter from Genoa of the 7th, in the Indepn-
dunce, says:—
- - -

" The soldiers of the general seized in the road-
sted of Genoa two steamers belonging to Rubattino
and Co , of that port—the Piemonte and the Lom-
bardo"—and when once out of reach
.proceeded to
pick up the, volunteers, who, in obedience to
orders given some days before, were waiting in
different parts on the coast. The director of the
company immediately made a protest in due form.
Yesterday orders arrived from Turin by telegraph
that the coasts should be watched, and that all the
arms which could be found should be seized; but the
volunteers had already embarked and had taken
with them a considerable number of muskets, which
had previously been deposited at a place near Genoa.
It is rumoured that a third steamer, the Sardegna,
of the same company, was stopped on its return
from Cagliari, near Genoa, by a small steamer of
Leghorn, called the Giglio, on board of which were
volunteers, with a quantity of ammunition ; and
that the men quietly took possession of the Sar-
degna, a larger vessel than theirs, put the passen-
gers, crew, and mails on board the Giglio, and
afterwards proceeded towards Sicily."

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

BOURSE, May 11.—The market has been heavy,
and prices have declined. Threes opened at 70f 75c,
and receded to 70f 65c. ; Mobilier varied from 690 f
to 682 f 50c; Austrian, 522 f 50c to 520 f; Lombard,
521 f 25c to 518 f 75c ; Lyons, 870 f to 865 f ; Orleans,
1,335 f to 1,330 f ; Eastern, 605 f to 600 f; Southern,
521 f 25c to 518 f 75c. The following are the last
quotations :

q per Cents. 93 15 Credit Fonder.... 802 50
Do. end month 96 25 Belgian 4f . 97
3 per Cents 7O 30 Piedmontose (5) .. 82 tO
Do. end month 7O 25 Roman B5
Bank Shams. 2875 Austrian
Credit Mebilior .. 680 Spanish Threes
46 25
Do. Account ..... 678 75 Home Debt

RAILWAYS.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern . 9BO 7-- .. 932 50
New ditto 875 .. 875
Lyons and Mediterranean 865 .. 866 25
GQIIOV4 407 50 .. 407 50
Southern ' 615 .. 520
Western 667 50 .. 570
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard .. 515 .. 513 75
Exchangeon London, at sight, paper, 25f. 18c.; money,
425 f. 17e.; three months, paper, 24f, 871 c.; money, 41 86c.