THE SALSETTE'S NEWS TO 27th AUGUST.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 4, Issue 162, 27 October 1860, Page 4

THE SALSETTE'S NEWS TO 27th AUGUST.

(FEOM THE SYDNEY HERALD'S ADELAIDE TfcliEGffiAPHIC CORiiIiBPONDENT.) • • Adelaide, Wednesday, Oct. 10. The Salsette, Capt. Methiven, from Galle, arrived at King George's Sound, at 6*30 a.m., on the 6th inst.', bringing English dates to the 27th August. The New Zealand Bill has been withdrawn. Bad accounts are given of the harvests. Large orders have gone out of the country for grain. The Great Eastern has arrived at Mil-" ford Haven, after a ten days' passage from New York, and seven from Halifax. Ministers ate their whitebait dinner at Greenwich on 22nd August. Parliament is to be prorogued on 28th August. The Fortifications Bill, after some opposition, has passed. This is chiefly attributable to a private letter from the Emperor of the French to his Ambassador in London, denying ail objects of aggrandisement, stating that his intentions were pacific towards England, ana that his existing forces were greatly exaggerated. f The British Government have no idea of subsidising a postal line via 'Panama. The English Commissioners at Paris, with Mr. Cobden at their head, are working away at the Commercial Treaty. Mr. J. E. Fitzgerald returns to New Zealand on 31st August. Lord Stanley of Alderly succeeds Lord Elgin as Postmaster-General. One of Garibaldi's aide r de-camps is in London organising a battalion. It is stated 500 have already enrolled. The Prince of Wales will be a student at Cambridge next year. On the 7th August the Queen reviewed 20,000 Scottish volunteers in Holyrood Park. There were more than 200,000 spectators. Her Majesty and Prince Albert are expected in Coburg about 10th September. The Goodwood Cup was won by Lord Armrley's Sweetsauce, Baron Rothschild's Gustave second. Odgers, of the Niger, is to have the Vie toria Cross. ' Mr. S. A. Donaldson, of Sydney, has been made a knight. The June mails reached London on the 6th and 9th of August. Garibaldi is in Calabria, and is threatening Rome and Naples. The fort of Regg capitulated to Garibaldi on the 21st. The Neapolitan Garrison were allowed to leave, with muskets and luggage only. After a short fight the Garibaldians occupied the Vala San Giovanni. The Neapolitan brigades,- Malandis and Drijanti, surrendered at discretion, to General Cosenza. The Garibaldians are masters of the artillery, and of Fort Deltizzo. An Austrian fleet is in readiness to receive on board King Francis 11. and his family, should Garibaldi drive him out of Naples. Austria preserves an imperturbable attitude. The disorganisation in Naples is beyond belief. The Count of Aquilla has been ordered out of Naples by his nephew the King, for compiling against him. The convention between the great powers concerning the intervention in Syria is only to last, as long as the Sultan permits it. 6000 French troops are at Bey rout. Prince Daniel has been 1 assassinated. . There has been a meeting between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince? Regent of Prussia at Toplitz. The object is a defensive alliance. ; » ' , The volunteer movement is. making rapid strides, in Germany especially, and in Belgium. A great iriter-national ; rifle, match is to take place- at Cologne, the firk prize to.be the Castle of Schuetzenberg,; on the Rhine., Rumours are abroad of a probable rupture between Austria and Piedmont. Fuad Pacha is taking energetic measures at Da-, mascus. Lord Pufferin is the British commander in Syria. „. ;.•',, ! The Prince of Wales has been enthusias-

tically received at St. John's, St. Peter's,and Halifax. He has reached Canada, where he was met by the Governor- General and his Cabinet. Lord Palmerston has stated that the treaty of Turin, ceding Savoy and Nice, has not been recognised by any of the Powers of Europe. Large numbers of the Pope's Irish Bri- j gade are returning,, digusted. The Count of Syracuse, the King of Naples' uncle, has written, announcing that he is prepared to hail Victor Emmanuel as his king. Obituartt. — The EaTl of Lauderdale, Rear Admiral Sir John Hiudmarshv . [From the "Sydney Herald," Oct. 11.] The mail from England is once more punctual to her date, and this time Port Adelaide in its race with Melbourne has won the honor of being the first port of arrival. The general tenor of the news is pacific, so far as any immediate likelihood of Great Britain getting embroiled is concerned. The Emperor of the French, who has made himself the dispenser of emotions to the continent of Europe, has condescended to tranquilize the panic of the English . people by assuring them that his intentions towards them are pacific ; and as he made the same assurance to the German potentates at Baden Baden, it follows that he must have been very ungenerously suspected and very cruelly maligned. Notwithstanding this assurance, however, conveyed informally in a private letter to the French Ambassador in London, the British Government thinks it right to go on with its project of protecting the dockyards, and the money necessary for the fortifications has been voted. The danger to be guarded againstmay perhaps never, come, but the Nation wisely thinks it all the better to effect the insurance, costly as it is. The very act of protection in itself diminishes the danger. An attack becomes less probable in proportion as it is made more difficult. Nor is the money invested in fortifications wasted even if danger should be proved never to have been imminent, for the sense of security is a deliverance from panics, and panics are not merely derogatory to a country like Great Britain, they are injurious to her credit, and check the operations of her commerce. It is difficult to trace the effect of public confidence in its ramifications, but when the gigantic commerce of Great Britain is considered, a large part of which consists of a carrying trade and a warehouse trade for the rest of the world, it will be easily seen how largely its continuance depends on the general confidence in her power to maintain her position. And if the country itself assists in explodingthe long-cherished doctrine of its impregnability, and by the exhibition of sudden qualms of terror invites the rest of the world to discern the secret of its weakness, it destroys thereby its own prestige. Any reasonable outlay which will give Englishmen confidence themselves in the inviolability of their stores, and which will give proof to others , that that confidence is not vain, is a prudent investment of the public funds, considered merely in a pecuniary light. The Volunteer movement continues to receive the patronage of Royalty, and the review in Hyde Park has been matched by another equally successful in Holy rood Park. The enthusiasm of the idea has communicated itself to the Continent, and Bel- [ gium and Germany also are furnishing forth their volunteers, as popular proofs of.j contentment with the present regime, and as protests against- threats of invasion and annexation. - The territorial changes supposed to be projected by France, will tlepend largely, after all, on the real dispositions of the people for whose homage monarohs quarrel. If the Belgians really wish to remain under Leopold, and haye a very strong feeling against being Napoleonised, it will be difficult to annex them either by force or fraud. And if the Rhenish Germans on the left bank of the river desire to retain their present nationality, and resolutely oppose any efforts to force them into a change, the French Emperor will not find it easy to class them as his subjects. Peoples as well as monarchs have a voice in these matters^ if they feel sufficiently strong on them- to put forth their full influence. . , Garibaldi, confident in his star, is>push ? ing forward, the> work he has taken in hand. He has effected a landing on the mainland : - — a thing hfrcould-hardly 1 have done! if the Neapolitan, nayy^ had. freeh; well affected to ? wards /the King,, and hadi t ;been>6kilfully, . handled. ■> But he has obtained a footing in-

Calabria, and met with some, and by no means inconsiderable, successes there. He holds steadily to His first pnrpose, and is inclined to adopt no half measures. Whatever may be r the views of the diplomatists of other countries, he is bent on making a clean sweep of allpotentates that stand in the way of Italian unity. Whether he will succeed, or peril what he has gained by attfempting too much, time only can show. The hardest part of his task has yet to come. The means at his disposal are ridiculously small compared with the work before him. Yet, after what he accomplished in Sicily, no one can venture to forebode defeat. His real strength lies not in his military appliances but in the almost universal sympathy of the population, and in the hatred and distrust of the King's Government. The ignominious flight of Francis the Second is already anticipated, and an Austrian fleet is ready to secure his personal safety. But this is all the help that Austria will now give. It has been so far cured by Magenta and Solferino of meddling with Italian politics. It has not- weaned itself, however, of its love for Italian territory, and holds to Venetia as firmly as ever,' notwithstanding the danger thereby involved of a quarrel with Piedmont — Piedmont soon perhaps to become all Italy. The explosion of religious bigotry in Syria has for the moment burnt itself out. The Turkish Government is using a vigor for punishment, which, if earlier displayed, might have repressed the outbreak. 6000 French soldiers have landed on the Syrian coast to help in keeping the peace, with an understanding that they are not to stay longer than shall be agreeable to the Sultan. The greatest item of domestic news is that the harvest in England is almost sure to be bad, owing to the long wet winter. Meat has already become so dear as to press heavily on the resources of the poor, and if bread becomes dear, too, wages will not go so far as before. This state of things may possibly stimulate emigration.