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By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we have re-
ceived our private correspondence and files of papers
from Calcutta to the 4th of July, and from Hong
Kong to the 22d of June.
CALCUTTA, JULY 4.

The affair of the sth Europeans is over, and the
quarrel between the soldiers of the old army and
the Government may be considered settled. There
was something so comic mixed up wi h the proceed-
ings of the men at Berhampore, something so utterly
bizarre and unexpected in some of their acts, that
you will find even officers disposed to treat the
mutiny with c rntempt. It was, however, a serious
affair. The regiment was about 600 strong, and
had expressed its opinion in the matter of the
transfer with offensive clearness. It continued,
however, to do duty until the arrival of some de-
serters from Allahabad, who taunted the men with
doing unnecessary duty. Nearly 500 of the men.
hereupon refused to do any duty whatever, upon
which the commanding officer, Major Maitland,
ordered the officers to withdraw. This step exas-
perated the men, as it implied a danger of assassi-
nation, and they elected officers of their own, one
Marshall being chosen colonel, and assisted by a
major, two captains, and four sergeants. Major
Maitland. now withdrew all servants, punkah
coolies, rum, and, in fact, everything except rations,
which it was impossible to stop without an explo-
sion. Fortunately for all parties, Marshall turned
out a man of some capacity and resolution. He
threatened to flog the first man caught looting, and
carried his menace into execution. Another man,
guilty of disrespect, received 50 lashes, and the regi-
ment was brought into a state of discipline to which
it was entirely unaccustomed. The men played
cricket under their officers' noses, but otherwise
remained quiet enough, opening, however, a cor-
respondence with the 6th at Hazareebagh. At
last, on the 26th of June, Colonel Kenneth Mac-
kenzie, Deputy-Adjutant-General—not Colonel
Colin Mackenzie, who only went up to pro-
tect Moorsheg. abad—arrived with 1,000 men of her
Majesty's 99th and the Buffs, and four guns. He
placed his men and offered the mutineers 24 hours
to consider themselves. If at the expiration of that
time they returned to duty, a court of inquiry
would be held' i;it.o their grievances ; if not lie
should employ forv. The men, 39 excepted, sub-
mitted, and. the recusants were arrested. The court
of inquiry is now sitting, but it seems perfectly un-
derstood that the men will be simply discharged.

I feel very doubtful whether even the ringleaders
will be punished. The discharge will apparently
be nearly universal. Of 50 recruits at Barrackpore,
all /demanded it except two. All the men in the
arsenal took it at once, and even the Governor-Ge-
neral's band declared their resolution to resign.'
The sth, it is known, will go en masse, a id letters
begin to come in speaking of discharges by the
hundred. We shall, in fact, lose the whole sub-
stance of the Company's European army, which has
thus, like its native. comrade, committed suicide.
The men calculate on a pleasant voyage to England
without work, three months holiday at home, and
re-enlistment on fresh bounty. They. share, more-
over, the feeling of dislike to the country, now so
laniintably strong among officers, and have been,
finaltP)-.lidle in the tropics for months.
The Governor-General has ordered that Thursday,
the 28th of July, shall be kept as a day of thanks-
giving for the restoration of peace in India:
There is literally no further news, except that
the Supreme Council has been reduced to one man
—Sir James Outram. Sir Barnes Peacock has
taken his seat in the Supreme Court, Sir B. Frere
is still in Scinde, and Mr, Ricketts is away sick at
the Neilgherries. Mr. Harrington, member for the
North-west has accordingly been called to Council
for the nonce—a step almost without a precedent.

CHINA.
HONG KONG, JUNE 22.
The English mail of the 26th of April arrived on
the sth inst., a few hours after the departure of the

Last outward bound steamer. The mail of the 10th

of May is now hourly looked for, and the. Malabar
leaves at two p.m. to-day for Singapore and Galle.
We yesterday received telegraphic news from
Europe to the 3d of May, brought by the steamer
James Bartley, from Calcutta to Singapore, and
thence per Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Azoff.

From Shanghai we learn that Admiral Hope and
the principal part of the fleet had left for the Gulf

of Pechelee on the 11th inst., and Mr. Bruce was
to follow with the Magicienne and Inflexible on
the 15th. The French and American Ministers
were to accompany him in the steam frigates
Du Chayla and Powhattan, each with steam ten.
ders. The American Minister, Mr. Ward, had
an interview with the Imperial Commissioners,

but we understand the British and French En

voys
which
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wt clho would
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ee ekbnient
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nr a ipnnuat
purely
e avoidedl ay n y negotiations
ceremonial.
n else-
where
m Many
interviewny
rumours are afloat as to the reception which the
expedition will meet with ; and the Chinese express
a fear that it will be unfriendly and lead to warlike
operations. We doubt if there is any solid founda-
tion for this, and are inclined to think that no op-
position will be shown, although the course of di-
plomacy may not run so smooth.
' The news from Cochin China is very unfavourable
to the French, who appear to have suffered very
severely from climate, and were much in want of
reinforcements. The Amanese appear to have be-
haved with considerable courage and skill, and they
had even attacked the French intrenchments, and
killed 50 men and one officer before they were re-
pulsed. The latest accounts, however, state they
were desirous of treating for peace, and we doubt if
the French, weakened as they are, would reject a
good opportunity of retiring with honour and ad-
vantage.
In Hong Kong or Canton no political events of
any importance have taken place.
Shameen has been selected as the site of the new
foreign settlement at Canton. The necessary space
is to be filled in by the Chinese Government, and
we believe the cost will be deducted from the in-
demnity.
Trade has been generally dull during the fort-
night, and imports have only been taken to a small
extent, except T cloths, which have been in fair
demand. We give sales at both places, and quote
Canton rates less 2 per cent. duty paid.
Cotton—Sales 3,100 bales Bombay, and 1,030
bales Madras. Prices are much as before.

Cottonper Yarn-700piouilower fboarleNsosso.lld6;.2p4r,icbeastatrheeahbioguhtel
dol. r
numbers have maintained their previous value. We
quote Nos. 16 24, 36 dols. 75c. to 39 dols. 500.;
Nos. 28-32, 4:5 dols. to 47 dols.; Nos. 38-42, 47 dols.
to 50 dols.
Shirtings—Gray, 10,400 pieces sold. Middling
qualities uninquired for :-5* to 51 catties, 2 dols.
35c. to 2 dols. 40c. ; 6 to 61 catties, 2 dols. 25c. to
2 dols. 65e. ; 61 to 61 catties, 2 dols. 70c. to 2 dols.
80c. ; 7 to 71 catties, 3 dols. 100. to 3 dols. 50c.
Whites have been taken readily for the finer reeds,
and we quote 54-60 reed 2 dols. 40c. to 2 dols. 60c.;
62-66 reed, 2 dols. 70c. to 3 dols. ; 68-72 reed, 3 dols.
40c. to 3 doh. 75c.
T Cloths-32,800 pieces sold, nearly all in Hong
Kong, at 1 dol. 75c. to 2 dols. 90c. ; Canton, 3 dols.
10c. for best.
Metals very dull indeed. Lead, 200 piculs sold
at 7 dols. 35c. to 7 dols. 45c. Iron, about 2,200
piculs of sorts sold at a reduction on last prices.
Sugar has advanced about 10c. per picul.
Canton Silk—A few transactions have taken
place. Prices are rather lower. Loongkong quoted
at 360 dols., No. 1 ; 360 dols., No. 2 ; 330 dols.,
No. 3.

Tea—The small quantity of country teas which
remained on the market have been withdrawn for

mixing, and transactions have been confined to
Tayshan congou and scented teas. For the former
especially very high rates have been paid. The higher
grades of scented teas most in request, and have ad-
vanced 1 to 2 taels. There have been BO arrivals
of new country teas, nor any expected for some
time to come, the transit routes being still ob-
structed. A few small musters of the new crop have
been shown, but in flat condition, and no sound opi-
nion can therefore be formed regarding the teas
they represent.
Settlements have been confined to Canton teas.
Scented orange Pekoe, 15,000 boxes, sold at 25 to
42 taels ; scented caper, 14,000 boxes, 181 to 32
taels ; Taysham CollgrOU, 8,000 half-chests, 24 to
29-3 taels ; Canton gunpowder, 600 boxes, 26 taels;
pouchong, 2,000 half-chests, 19 taels; ditto, 1,250
boxes, 20 taels.

One vessel,the Hoang Ho, has sailed for-London.

Exchange has declined. Bank bills on London,
4s. 101,e1.; first-class private bills, 4s. 100.; on
Bombay, 2281 rupees per 100 dols. ; on Calcutta,
229 rupees, three days' sight.
Bullion-,--Sycee -silver, 5 per cent..pm.; bar sil-
ver, 7 per cent. pm.; gold leaf, 22,70 c. - per tael;
gold bar, nominal.
Freights—One favourite vessel, the Robin Hood,
is loading at £3 10s., but four others are on the
berth at £2 to £2 ss. For New York, 7 dols. for
general cargo, and 15 dols. for silk.
-Amoy advices, to the -17th inst. contain nothing

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important.
Foochow letters are to the 15th inst. ; a few small
sales had been made of imports.
Tea—Great competition had existed, and larger
transactions had taken place at an advance of 11 to
2 taels on opening rates. The eagerness to buy
was partly caused by anxiety to get away the first
ships, three of which sailed on the 10th and 11th
inst., and since their departure there has been less
animation, and as teas were coming down freely,
we may hope to see prices brought to a more rea-
sonable figure. Of fine tea the supply 'is said tb be
small. Very little souchong has yet arrived, but
some are of extra fine quality. Pekoes have been
sold at very extreme rates for fair quality.
Sales—Congou, 27,570 chests, at 27, taels to 37
ta:els, short, the average being 33.34 taels; Souchong,
200 chests, fair medium, at 30 taels, short ; Pekoes,
640 chests,-fir medium, at,sB tads to 70 taels,
short ; Oolongs, 2,600 half-chests,fair medium, 26.5
tugs to 32 taels, short.
Stocks--Congou, 8,400 chests ; Pekoe. 260
chests Oolong, 4,400 half-chests. Quotations are as
follows :—Congou, fair to common, 23 taels to 29
taels; ditto, Kaisow kinds, 27 tads to 31 tads;
ditto, other Kaisow, 33 tads to 37 taels ; Souchong,
fair medium, 30 taels; Pekoe, fair to fine, 58 taels
to 70 taels ; Oolongs, fair cargo, 26 taels to 28 taels ;
ditto, good to fine, 30 tads to 32 taels.
The departures have been the Ellen Rodgers on
the 10th inst., Fiery Cross and Bacchante on the
11th. Three others are on the berth for London,
and plenty of ships in port. Freights, £4 4s. to
£6. For America nothing doing.
Shanghai dates are to the 14th inst. Imports
show vary little change, and the Chinese are very
cautious in purchasing, having fears as to the result
of the expedition to Pekin. Shirtings—Grays are
lc. to 2c. higher ;61 catties, taels 1.8 8. Whites
quoted as before, taels 1.7 to taels 2.2.5. Lead,
taels 5.2 per picul.
Nail rod iron, 2.5 taels to 3.5 taels.
Silk—The most extravagant rates have been paid
for the fiirst of the noir crop. The market was
opened in the country at for Tsatleo, No. 1, 420
taels; No. 2, 400 taels ; No. 3, 380 taels to 390
tags ; and at Shanghai transactions have-taken
place at about 5 taels under these rates. About
1,000 bales have been settled and go home by
this steamer. Business has been checked by
the arrival of the 26th of April mail,
and much lower ratesmust prevail ere business can
be done to any great extent, as the above quoted
rates show a heavy loss on last London quotations.
Tea.—Very little has been done, the quality of
the remaining stock being very low. Settlements-
-3,900 chests common Ho-How congou at 15t. to 18t.
and 400 chests Pekoe at 35t. to 45t. Only 1,509
half-chests greens have been settled, and prices are

nominal.
Stocks.--13,000 chests black, and 5,400 half-
chests green. No musters of new teas have been re-
ceived. The New Era has left for London, and two
vessels are loading for the same port. For America
one vessel has sailed, and one remains on the berth.
Freights are unchanged.
The export of tea from China to Great Britain is
60,732,9001 b. against 76,067,0001 b. last season, or a
decrease of 15.334,1001 b. for 1858-9.
To the United States the export is 29,530,2001 b.
against 29,458,6001 b. last year, or an increase of
71,6001 b.
The export of silk to Great Britain and Marseilles
is 70,903 bales, against 69,080 bales last year, or an
increase for the present season of 10,823 bales.
Exchange on England has given way, principally
in consequence of the unfavourable advices regard-
ing silk. Bank bills, six months'sight, 65.6 d., to Os.
7d., very little done. On Bombay, 305 rs. On Cal-
cutta, 308 rs. On Hong Kong draughts nominally
25 per cent. dis.
Bullion.—Bar silver, 17 to 171 ; betterness, 111.5
taels per 100 teals Canton weight ; Mexican dollars
77 taels per 100 dols ; gold, 159 to 160 teals per bar
of teals 9.7.3. •
Manilla advices arc to the 16th inst. Current
clayed sugar 51 dols to 5 dols per picul.
Exchange on London, six months' sight, 4s. 7d.
Our latest dates are—From England, May 3, by
telegraph; Bombay, May 26 ; Calcutta, May 30 ;
Singapore, June 12 ; Sydney, April 23 ; Melbourne,
April 13 ; Manilla, June 16.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE CALCUTTA MARKET, JULY 2.

Telegrams have been received, Thursday, June
22, via Galle, with English news, and Tuesday,
June 28, via Galle, conveying intelligence of the loss
of the Alma.

Produce Market—The fortnight under review has
been a very quiet one for exports. Value of almost
all articles has a downward tendency, but buyers
keep aloof. The indigo accounts continue nearly
as before. Sugar dull and lower. Saltpetre in less
demand at lower prices. A fair business in raw
silk, at about 2rs. decline from the highest point.
In torahs nothing doing.. Oil-seeds dull and declin-
ing. Jute without inquiry. Safflower neglected.
Hides in fair demand.
The Import Market during the last fortnight be-
came gradually very quiet and dull. A limited de-
mand for local consumption, coupled with very un-
favourable accounts from all tb e up-country markets,
caused a general panic in the minds of all piece goods
Calcutta dealers, who, labouring under the impres-
sion that later in the season—say for the next
month or two—the position of the market will be
more unsatisfactory, not only kept from further
purchases to arrive, but showed considerable in-
clination to sell the previously purchased and lately
arrived goods at a reduction, being satisfied with
little or no profit. The consequence of all these
doings was a general fall of prices on all kinds of
piece goods, and an expectation that, owing to the
very large arrivals of piece goods and yarns, the
market will be more inactive and the prices still
lower, unless a demand should spring up in the
principal up-country markets. Yarn has been ex-
ceedingly (Inlet, ana, owing to the general cessation
of transactions, prices have declined considerably.
Metals very dull. Prices nominal. The market for
copper Continues firm, and a little business has been
done in Australian at 49 6. The iron-market is dull,
and prices lower. Spelter—Large arrivals have
caused rates to recede on our last quotations.
Money Market.—Money continues abundant,
and it is calculated that the banks alone hold
nearly two crores and a half unemployed. In the
per
Be
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below
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nbke
rates.obtained
haet
Government,
r nomr e two h
vr
ever,
does not participate in this abundance, and
way
their position is believed to be in no
better
than it was three months ago.
Government Securities have not ben cfitted greatly
state of the money market. An occa-
sional easy state
demand from speculatorshas wa"
by a

proved their value about one per cent., but it is
doubtful even if this will be maintained, though
some imprOvement is hoped for by-holders, if, as it
is anticipated, the. Bengal Bank will before long
reduce the margins on loans and lower the rate of
interest. The present rates are about 12-8 per cent.
discount for the Five per Cent., and nominally 26
per cent. for the Four per Cents. The new Six and
a-Half per Cents. opened at 6-8 per cent. discount.
Joint-stock Shares.—The transactions are few,
and the market is languid, notwithstanding the
lowering of the Bank rate of discount. India gene-
ral.shares maintain their value, and .dock shares
are wanted at rates above our quetations,-but there
are no sellers. Ganges shares are wanted, but there
are no sellers under 1,800. Tug shares and Bonded
Warehouse scrip is at heavy discount. Iu Coal
shares there is little doing. In Burdwan stone
shareS there is some little inquiry, and Auction
shares are at a discount. _ .

Exchange.—There has been very little change
during the last fortnight in the rates on London.
The banks have been sellers at from 2 O to 2 0;1„
the principal sales have been at the latter rate, and
that only to a moderate extent. There have been
largei‘ sales of credit bills, at. from 2 0 9-16 'to 2 Ofi,
and a small amount of documentary papers at from
207t0 2 01. The amount of business transacted
for the mail has altogether been very moderate.
On China the rate for the last direct steamer ruled
from 225 to 227 per 100 dols. On Bombay, bills
at three months' sight have sold from par tb 10
annas premium. •
Freights.—Since the departure of the last mail
the following vessels have beon chartered :—Belle
of the Sea, for Boston, at our quotation ; Sarah
Newman, for London, at £2 ss. all round; Lydia,
for Melbourne, at £2 10s.—all round.

CHINA SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
At Hong Kong—June 6, the Laertes, from Lon-
don ; June 15, the Catharina Maria, from Cardiff •
June 18, the Chatham, from Liverpool.
At Shanghai—June 2, the Koh-i-noor, from
Liverpool.
DEPARTURES TO GREAT BRITAIN.
From Hong Kong—June 9, the Earl of Eglin-
toun , for Lone on.
• From Macao---June 6, the New Margaret, for
London.
From Whampoa—June 12, the Hoang Ho, for
London.
From Foochow—June 10, the Ellen. Rodgers ;
.Tune 11, the Fiery Cross and the Bacchante ; June
19, the Crest of the Wave ; all for-London..
From Shanghai—May 31, the New Era,, for
London...l.

CENTRAL

PARMA,' AUG: 4.
The affairs of Central Italy, which bore so gloomy
an aspect as I contemplated them at a distance,
look a hundred times more ominous now I can see
them nearer. Parma is in a state of indescribable
excitement. Not a fortnight has elapsed since the
Sardinian Government, Count Pallieri having re-
ceived the most distinct instructions and most posi-
tive'assurances from Count Ctrvour to that effect
(previous to 'that Minister's resignation), asserted
freely- before a popular assembly .in the main square
of the town, attended by mare than 10,000 persons,
ttiat the Duchy of Parma was, and-would remain,
by the terms of the peace of Villafranca, annexed
to Piedmont. Consistently with this, announce-
ment, when the Sardinian Government f4uhd itself
compelled to withdraw its agents and representa-
tives from Modena, Bologna, and Florence, it still
directed Count Pallieri and his subordinate agents
to remain at Parma, and wield the supreme power
in the name--of Victor Emmanuel.' All this had
the effect of lulling the Parmesans into a state of
false security, and of putting Pallieri and the Go-
vernment in whose • name he acted in a false and
dangerous position.
The sober facts, however, are the following :
When the two Emperors agreed upon the- terms of
the peace of Villafranca, the Austrian monarch
obtained from the French autocratearpromise that
" his family," that is, the Duk,es- of Modeeta and.
-Tuscany, should not be sacrificed: As to the Duchess
of Parma, either no stipulation was made, or the
Emperor -Francis Joseph, indulging a feeling of
petty spite against the Duchess for the neutrality
she had" dared" to proclaim between' the belligerent
Powers, expressed himself quite willing -that the
Duchess of Parma should be left to settle her dif-
ferences with her subjects as she best could.
Subsequently, as Austria came to a better and
closer understanding with France, and the latter
had good reasons, whatever they may be, to gratify
the former in all its desires, it was settled between
the two high contracting parties that not one mile
of territory should be given to Piedmont beyond
what was awarded to it at. Villafranca—viz., Lom-
bardy up to the Mincio.
More lately, also, it became apparent that, what-
ever may be the motives by which the French
Emperor is actuated, he has set his heart on grant-
ing the Duchess of Parma's earnest and repeated
entreaties, by restoring her to her States. The
upshot of these new resolutions has been repeatedly
and in very clear terms conveyed to the Sardinian
Government after Cavour's resignation, and, as
there is no doubt that the annexation of Parma and
Piacenza would be productive of fur more solid and
durable advantage to Piedmont than even the ces-
sion of Lombardy, and as, besides, the Government
of King Victor Emmanuel see themselves in the
cruel necessity of eating their own words and
acknowledging that they have held out false hopes
to the Parmesans, they have been thrown int:• the
greatest perplexity, and have tried to gain time by
a great deal of unworthy shuffling.
Matters, are, however, rapidly coming to a crisis ;
the real truth is by this time known to all who
cared to know it; and the Sardinian Government
is strongly suspected and even loudly accused of a
cruel wish to deprive the Parmesans of their last
resource, by preventing them from joining their
brethren of Modena and the Romagna, and making
their cause one with that of all Central Italy. In
real truth, however, the Sardinian Government are
only confounded and stultified by the dark and
crooked policy of higher Powers. They and their
agent here, Count Pallieri, than whom there is
neither a more honourable nor, under ordinary cir
cumstances, a more able man, are plainly at a loss
how to act. Their present plan is to proceed to a
convocation of the comitia, or popular election,
directing Pallieri to resign immediately after the
promulgation of the decree, that the public suffrage
may be said to emanate free from all influence on
the part of Piedmont. There is no doubt as to the
results of a vote obtained under present circum-
stances ; it would be almost unanimous in favour
of immediate, unconditional, and irrevocable an-
nexation to Piedmont. My impression, however,
is that no time will be allowed for such an appeal
to public suffrage ; and that what was quite feasible
a fortnight ago, has become almost utterly imprac•
ticable at the present stage of the crisis. I have
told you already that Count Reisset has been sent
from Paris to persuade the people of Central
Italy to submit to their fate. Of course, a pacific
mission of that nature would be void of effect.
But in the meantime a French division, 10,000
men strong, has occupied Piacenza. I have no
doubt we shall have one-half of that force here,
if not to-morrow, at least in a very few days.
With 5,000 French bayonets to back her, the
Duchess will not hesitate to come forth with a pro-
clamation, appealing to popular suffrage to declare
in her favour, and then, under such circumstances,
the people's vote will be loud enough in her behalf;
for that she has a party in the country no one need
doubt, and that party, which is quiet and invisible
enough at the present moment, will take courage
in the same measure, as the Moderate Liberal party
is disheartened by the display of French force.
I beg you to observe, however, that besides the
Ducal and the Piedmontese, or _Moderate Liberal
party, there is also a third party, which is already
giving unmistakeable symptoms of its readiness to
hatch mischief.
This is the Ultra-Liberal, Red Republican, or
Mazzini party, the visible and acknowledged head
of which is a young, hot-headed advocate, named
Ermelonghi. 'This is the man who was the author
of the first abortive revolutionary movement of
Parma of the Ist of May last. These men, or the
most desperate of them, have been organised into
a kind of brotherhood of the dagger ever since the
murder of the Duke in 1854, and have had a hand
in all the bloody deeds which followed close upon
the first assassination for the whole of the follow-
ing year. These men are now armed. and belong to
the ranks of the National Guards. Their numbers
are daily increased by the return of hundreds and
thousands of volunteers who have latelybroken loose
from the Piedmontese regiments in which they had
enlisted, and from the various volunteer corps which
went out to fight in Lombardy, and which are ex-
tremely loud in their denunciations of the ill-
treatment they have met with at the hands of their
Piedmontese officers, and of the " treason" of which
the Sardinian Government is guilty towards the
national cause. In short, 1859 threatens to be a
rehearsal of all the disorders 9f 1849, And the down.

fall of the Sardinian King as a national leader can
hardly fail to bring • Mazzini once more in the
ascendant. Already we hear loud threats against
the life of the Duchess, " if she dare show herself,"
and still darker menaces are hurled against a far
more exalted personage, who is looked upon as the
author of all the miseries of Italy. I know full
well that a a threatened man lives long," and that
" these dogs do not bite as often as they snarl," but
I cal tell you in sober truthlhat in a public wife,
called the Cafe Violi, a list is now open, the sub-
scribers of which bind themselves " to shoot or
stab" any person who ventures to propose. or in
any manner to abet and promote, the Duchess's
restoration. I can also assure you as honestly. as. I
value my good name as a faithful and impartial
narrator of Italian matters as they are, that wise
and sober men in great numbers, even among those
who are known as faithful partisans of the Ducal
Government, anticipate the greatest evils, and even
the most tragic scenes, if the restoration of that Go-
vernment is brought about by such means as are
now in. contemplation. I have no hesitation in
adding that the same and even more startling ex-
cesses are to be apprehended in Modena, in
Bologna, and throughout the Romagna. I must
also express my conviction, from „old personal'
knowledge, that there is no people in Italy
more humane, gentle, and abhorrent of blood-
shed than- the Parmesans—that nothing is easier
than to lead and curb. them with a silken thread,'
so long as their feelings and wishes are not I
too rudely trampled upon and thwarted; and
I can allege, as an incontrovertible proof, the very
fact that Count Pallieri has hitherto been able to
keep the peace and maintain the most admirable
public order, not only without regular armed
forces,--but even afterthe departure of the Dragoons
or Gendarmes; and other police agents, who were
sent to swell the ranks of the mountain Gendar-
merie of the.Sardinian King during the Lombard
campaign. All this apparent calm, however. will
give way to terrific stoi ms as soon as the last hopes
of the people are extinguished,, and the hated
" past" is ferced back upon the reluctant multitude.
Why. the Duchess's Government, in spite of the
less unpopular character of the Regent herself, is
viewed with such animosity by a vast 'majority of
her subjects is. what I hope to be able to make.clear
after, a brief retrospect of the state of this connfty
since the restoration of the Ducal Government in
1814. .

AUGUST 5.
The mission of M. Reiset may remind us of a
certain anecdote in: old Helvetian history. At a
time in which the forest cantons were at war with
Lecerne, the leaders of the Uri forces sent as a
scout-One of their bravest mountaineers, with a
view to explore the nakedness of the enemy's lands.
'The valiant youth, accustomed to fair dealing with
either friend or foe, went straight up to the gate of
Lucerne and sounded his horn as lustily as his
lungs would let him; and when the warriors of
Lucerne, peeping out from behind portcullis and
drawbridge, challenged him with their " Who goes
there 9". he shouted in aeply, " The Uri spy" (Der
spion von Ur*
Count Reiset, blowing his honest • trumpet
with all his might on his starting from Paris, an-
nounced to the world that the purpose of his'mission
was to make out the real wishes, hopes, and fears
of the inhabitants of Central Italy, and, at the same
time that tie assured thenithey might lay:aside all'
apprehenSion of a u arnica. intervention in behalf of
their .runaway Sovereigns, to try *all MS powers of
peruetsiorr iu the name of his Imperial master,
" voluntarily' to the sway of their
Princes, 'and welcome them - upon ,their return.
Preceded.by'allthiS. loud flourish, and by the repu-
tation, well or ill founded, of being. a French
Royalist, and a man of very moderate ability, the
Count went through Turin, endeavouring' in vain
to bring Dabbrmida and his colleagues of the Sar-
dinian Ministry to put forth. their influence so as!
to forward the object of his mission. Foiled-in this
attempt by the firm and dignified behaviour °Ethel
Turin Cabinet, he arrived at Parma yesterday
morning, had a long interview with:Count Pallie'ri,
'the Sardinian Governor; and this-morning he Sinn-
moue& beforo him a ft w: "-notables" -of the
SPY9l.o,worgi.ont-such. information as they might!
be willing to impart. As a matter of course, the.
town, alarmed by the great importance attached to
the Count's mission, assumed a very decided attitude
and gave him " a bit of its mind" in as clear a man-
ner as the envoy could desire. Ten thousand bills,
at least were stuck up at every corner of the streets,,
at every house and shop-door, bearing the inscrip-
tion,* " Viva Vittorio Emmanuele, nostro Re!",
Wherever the Count's carriage stopped—at the Go-
vernor's Palace;at the Town-hall, &c., huge portraits,'
of " our King" were hung up behind, and at each
panel of the vehicle ; and as to the " notables," the!
Count was destitute of all acquaintance in the place,'
and had to send for such men as were pointed out,
to him by M. Paltrineri, the French consular agent
resident in Parma. This morning, then, at Paltri-
neri's suggestion, Count Reiset saw the AdveCate
Torrigiani, Professor Rive, and other perfectly fair
and henest men, who told him, what Napoleon 111..
full well knows at Paris—viz., that the Duchess has
but few secret partisans here, and that even these
would,
.by all arguments and entreaties, deprecate
her restoration, as a desperate measure, fraught
with the utmost danger, and sure to lead to such
deeds of civil dissension and bloodshed as would
put even the tragic events .of the 24th of July,
1854, to the blush. Satisfied apparently with this
information, Count Reiset leaves to-day at two p.m.
for Bologna, unwilling, as it seems, to try his luck
at Modena.
The Emperor's envoy, if, indeed, his mission was
intended for a serious one, was utterly void of
effect as a means of bringing the stiff-necked Par-
mesons to reason, and was even a greater failure in
so far as it was intended to get an insight into the
real state of affairs in this country.
I believe, without presumption, I am in a better
condition to convey to your readers the bias of the
public mind here at the present moment. Not-
withstanding the real attachment of the Parmesans
to the Government of King Victor Emmanuel, and
their eager desire to be united to the Kingdom of
Northern Italy, it is very clear that the hopes of
honest patriots no longer keep pace with their
desires. It begins to ooze out that the Sardinian
Government has been unable to obtain France's
consent to annex either the whole, or even the least
part, of this Duchy to Piedmont, and that the
whole point at issue is now whether or not the
citadel of Piacenza (not the place) is to receive a
Piedmontese garrison. The Parmesans are there-
fore not unjustly indignant against the Pied-
montese authorities, who only a fortnight ago so-
lemnly asserted that the destinies of the Duchy
were cast into one with those of Lombardy at the
peace of Villafranca, and that Parma should re-
main, as it is, annexed to Piedmont ; they are sur-
prised, and not agreeably, to see a Piedmontese
Governor, an Intendente, &c., continue in the dis-
charge of their functions, as if no ultimate change
were contemplated, while an Imperial French
agent is despatched all the way from Paris to con-
vey the Emperor's advice—an advice which has
nine-tenths of the strength of a threat and. down-
right coercion—to the effect that Parma " ought"
to prepare to welcome back the exiled Duchess.
The honest partisans of Piedmont in Parma begin
to look blank and bewildered ; the most influential
of them draw back from a Government which po-
pular opinion is tempted to charge with double-
dealing. Count Cantelli, the Governor's Secretary-
General, and M. Giuseppe Gallenga, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the National Guard, have sent
in their resignations, and their offices have been
filled up respectively by the Advocate Manfredi
and. by M. Pontoli, who are well known to belong
to the Red Republican party. This party, it is
impossible to deny, has regained all its ascendancy '
since the Peace of Villafranca ; and the Piedi-
montese Government, unable otherwise to resist it',
are trying to neutralise its influence by raising
it to power. The so-Called Moderate pien—men of
the stamp of Cantelli, &c., are seized with dismay
and confusion, and confess their inability to avert
the disorders with which the commity is threatened.
Their only hope of success lies in the prompt retire.-
ment of the Sardinian authorities ; for, were the
town and State left to themselves, they would pro-
pose the union of Parma with Modena, under
Farini's dictatorship, as by that movement they
hope they might come in for their share of the
Tuscan and other regular forces now collected at
Modena, by the aid of whtpuiecolosoisfrtedaheolelrfy. would feel equal
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dred muskets to arm the soundest and best inten-
tioned part of the National Guard. As it is, only
the lowest and most mischievous classes are armed,
and their ranks have become more dangerous, owing
to the vast influx of volunteers flocking to them
from the Sardinian army. Public order has been
hitherto maintained almost by a miracle ; it will so
continue as long as a spark of hope is, either upon
just or false grounds, kept up; but when the cry
arises that " all is lost" the Republicans will be sure
to have their "fling," ushering in by their mad
freaks the reign of terror which must needs inau-