EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 316, 30 October 1860, Page 3

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Home News Office,

Monday Afternoon, August 27,1860. The following telegrams contain our latest news respecting Garibaldi.

Turn*, August 25.—A despatch received here from Reggio announces that on the 21st of August, Garibaldi obtained another victory over a body of Neapolitan troops who had retired into the citadel General Cosenz, with a considerable force, had crossed the straits at Fuitnicino.

Palermo.—August 23.—The fort of Eeggio capitulated on the 21st. The Neapolitan garrison is allowed to leave with muskets and personal baggage only. After a short fight the Garibaldians have occupied the Villa San Giovanni. Two Neapolitan brigades, Melandez and Briganti, have surrendered at discretion to General Cosenz. The Garibaldians are masters of their artillery, arms, &c, and of Fort del Pizzo.

The special correspondent of the Times furnishes tho following curious information respecting the journey made by Garibaldi to the island of Sardinia, before his invasion of Calabria. We refer in another portion of our columns to this journal :—

' Very shortly after Garibaldi's arrival at Messina several of the most prominent patriots of the Pontificial possessions came over here (Messina) to combine a plan of attack on the Pontificial provinces. It was decided that it should take place simultaneously with the descent on the continent, about the middle of this month. Six thousand men had been collected and prepared for this coup, and an insurrection was at the same time to break out in the Papal States. The 6000 men were to be taken in batches to the island of Sardinia, and then be fetched by steamers from Palermo and thrown across the mainland. Dr. Bertani, Garibaldi's wellknown agent at Genoa, came down to announce that the 6000 men destined for the expedition to the Papal States were ready. The Golfo d'Orangio, on the east coast of the island of Sardinia, little inhabited and out of the way, was chosen by Dr. Bertani as the most convenient point to assemble the forces, and with this view the men were sent there in batches and were to wait till further orders. Dr. Bertani came himself to report on the circumstances connected with this affair. Although all precautions had been taken to create the belief that the 6000 men, like so many of their predecessors, were destined for Sicily, their real destination oozed out, and warm representations were made from Turin not to complicate matters by bringing in the Papal question before the Neapolitan is quite decided. Indeed, the day before Bertani left, Farini himself came to Genoa to urge the matter in person, while Major Trecchi came with similar representations on the part of the king. The former would probably have produced but little effect; not so with the latter. As I have often told you, Garibaldi has a kind of chivalrous attachment to the king as a symbol of Italian unity. The only representation made was that it would create trouble for Piedmont if an expedition started directly from Piedmontese soil into the Papal States. The advice, therefore, waa to transport the 6000, like all the others, to Sicily, and send them out thence. These representations, as I said, produced their effect, but as the dispositions were, according to previous understanding, made for a start from Sardinia, and as the troops were already there, Garibaldi decided to go there himself and see what was to be done. The dispositions about the choice of a place and all the rest respecting the plan for reunion and startinghad to be left to the committee, as more aufait of the circumstances in Piedmont. The choice was not fortunate, for the Golfo d'Orangio. out of the way, was secure enough, but at the same time afforded no facilities for procuring food and water. Besides, the organisation of the 6000, which had taken place likewise by means of the committee, had not the elements requisite for succass. Garibaldi saw this as soon as he formed them, and this decided him quite to give up the plan against the Romagna for the moment, and to use these 6000 men to complete the work in the south. Immediately, dispositions were made for the transport of these troops to Sicily. A thousand of them on board the Torino were sent round the island of Sicily to Taormina, whither likewise the Franklin was dispatched. The object in view was nothing more nor less than to embark the Brigade Bixio of the Division Turr, and go right across to the south coast of Calabria. This was one of those bold and quick movements which Garibaldi likes. . All eyes were looking towards the Straits and the western shore of the continent, and this was just the moment to go to the south or east coast.'

The following telegram is dated Naples, August 21:—' The Royal Intendent of Potenza is at the head of the insurrection in province of Basilicata. 4000 Calabrian insurgents reinforced the Garibaldians during their attack on the town of Reggio. Their chiefs of the National Guard of Naple3 have tendered their resignation on account of the foreign battalions not having been disbanded.'

We learn from the semi-official sources that Russia is concentrating fresh troops to Bessarabia, and at the same time increasing her naval force in the Mediterranean, in which sea the arrival is expected of the screw ships of the line Wiborg, Wblga, and Constantine, which sailed from Revel on the sth of August, accompanied by two steam corvettes.

A telegram from Vienna states, on the faith of despatches from St. Petersburg, that a grand banquet took place at the imperial court in honor of the birthday of the Emperor of Austria, at which the Austrian ambassador was present. The Czar, in proposing the health of the Emperor, said, "In honor ot my dear brother the Emperor of Austria."

An important despatch of August 24 has reached us from Trieste:—' The new Prince of Montenegro has deprived the Bishop of Montenegro of office on account of his having at the burial of the late Prince Danilo left the funeral procession before the conclusion of the ceremony. The bishop alleged a sudden indisposition as an excuse. Nikizza refused, however, to accept this excuse, and ordered the prelate to quit the country immediately. The Russian consul interceded in his behalf, as the bishop is reported to be the chief of the Russian party. It is known that he proceeded last year to St. Petersburg in order to be consecrated. The great agitation prevailing in Montenegro is especially caused by the struggle between the French and Russian parties, who divide the country.'

The Emperor and Empress of the French re* cently started on a visit to Savoy and Nice. The Moniteur of August 24th publishes an account of the journey of their majesties through Frauce to Corsica and Algeria. On arriving at Dijon, their majesties were received with enthusiasm. The mayor, in his address to them, said that the government of the emperor has carried the prestige of the country to a dazzling height. The mayor thus continued:—' When Europe affects to be always afraid of the power of your armies, she really fears much more the sympathies which you have brought forth among peoples.'

A letter from Cherbourg says:—-c There is positively nothing, or next to nothing, doing in this great stronghold. There are no war preparations, nothing but daily reviews of the troops in the redoubts, or reviews of the marines in the grounds of the long naval caserne, which lies many a rood extending behind the huge Napoleon dock. Neither is the talk here of war. Every evening I dine with" a dozen or so of jovial, goodhumoured officers, who are all very ready to say a word in favor of old England, French soldiers though they be, and the general theme of table conversation over their Bordeaux and nuts is not as to when the fleet will receive orders to assemble in the Manche of a French* campaign in Albion, but as to the excellency ©£ the music played the yesternight in the Bace d'Armes, in view of the forts and the great sea*, for the amusement of the good, citueuft aod th«i& SoglifllXiMGeniitagatitfcr