Ritortliantung.

The following distressing account of the sanitary condition of the Garibaldian volunteers in Sicily has just been received by one of the honorary secretaries of the Ladies' Garibaldi Benevolent Association. It is from the pen of the same medical man who has repaired to Southern Italy for the purpose of aiding, by his professional skill and talent, the Italian cause.

Palazzoreale, Messina, August 17, 1860. Palazzoreale, Messina, August 17, 1860.

"In the absence of the General, I was asked to visit the hospitals of Me-

laze° and Barcellona, with the view of introducing some improvements into the administration of the sanitary department. I have suggested some im- provements there. An extract of my report to the Secretary of War I have given in the Lances; and I have also implored the editor of that journal to plead the cause of the poor wounded patriots. After my return from Me- lees°, I -find a very melancholy state of the army ; 12,000 stationed at Faro are worn out with fatigue andliunger, and debilitated with lever; the hos- pitals are crowded ; there are 500 men in the hospitals here without a pil- low or sheet—without a shirt—without everything. Ask your Ladies' Cone- lnittee to collect shirts, towels, sheets, surgical instruments, quinine, ein- Ahona powder, and pillows, or these poor fellows will be decimated. Send them direct to Messina, to the care of the English Consul. I wish very uch to join Garibaldi as soon as possible, but I shall not leave this until I ve organized an ambulance to cope with the emergencies of the campaign.

least I shall endeavour to do so. I am glad to hear that you have sent me money to Madame Mario, and also some boxes, which we expect with impatience. That lady's efforts on behalf of these poor brave fellows I think beyond praise. She is very energetic, runs from Barcelona to Faro like lightning, and works very hard. I am sure that everything that is good must come from England. Providence has placed that island as a light in the midst of the darkness of Europe. All the light and truth must proceed from thence—all the efforts for the regeneration of our race must commence with Great Britain."

The following letter from General Garibaldi has been received by the Countess of Shaftesbury—

"Southern Army of Italy, Messina, August 12. "Dear and excellent Lady—Amongst the most fortunate circumstances of my life, I number that of having acquired for my country the sympathy of the generous ladies of England. "Be pleased to interpret my gratitude to those most valued and most kind friends to whom Italy owes so much. "With the most profound esteem, I remain, Madam, your devoted servant,

G. GARIBALDI.

"To Lady Shaftesbury, President of the Ladies' Garibaldi Benevolent Association."

The Berwick Commission of Inquiry has ceased to take evidence, and has adjourned. At the meeting of the Commissioners on Saturday Mr: II‘Gall appeared. He declined to be sworn, alleging that if he were sworn he must be protected ; that he had been tried, and that if he en- tered on the evidence he gave before the Select Committee he might be subject to be tried again. The Commissioners said they could protect him if he made a true discovery, but could not protect him at all from the consequences of evidence he had given elsewhere. He refused to be sworn, and was committed to prison.

During the week, a change has taken place in the weather, not only in Great Britain and Ireland but on the Continent. The rain has ceased to pour down its devastating showers. The sun shines again at inter- vals, sometimes for hours, and the moon has made the nights pleasant and refreshing. Farmers are in better spirits, and in France they have suddenly grown sanguine enough to expect a good harvest.

The Prince and Princess Frederick William have accepted the invitation sent by the town of Stettin, and will be present at the entertainment to be offered to them on the 18th of September, on the return of their royal high- nesses from the sea-baths of Putbus.

The Princess Frederick William was " churched " on Sunday last.

'The Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres returned at the close of the past week from a continental tour, and have joined the Countess de Nenilly and the Duke de Nemours and faikly at Tunbiidge Wells.

Prince Adalbert of Prussia arrived in 'Vienna on the 26th. In the course of the day the Emperor visited him. The Prince was to remain in Vtenna for a few days.

Prince Ernest of Wurtemberg has just been married to a celebrated Ger- man singer named Natalie Frassini, the daughter of the director of the music at the Cassel Theatre. secret, and re. nalihn;ueenielrns perlecveacidl,

The Count of Aquila seemed determined only to funatv cally. 130 arrived in England on the 21th, and retill °n'

26th of August. Quick work ! natd• •

Colonel Burnaby, of the Grenadier Guards, embarked orstuAbility, tell the seilles, on board the Clyde, for Beyrout. This officer, who ,42 •4crets when

a military mission, is going to join Lord Dufferin in Elyria. " s'abry ' The Sultan has sent the Grand Cross of Medjidie to Abd-el-lia,stiler.

The Reverend George Martin, Chancellor of the Diocese of Exeter, :11i„filfin- spicuous Member of the Lower House of Convocation, and forty years tor of Totneas, died on Monday by his own hand. This fatal ending of a respectable and useful life is said to have been brought about by domestic affliction.

The Moniteur _announces the death of M. Lecouturier, who for some years past had regularly contributed to that jourual a very clear and in- teresting description of the chief astronomical phenomena of the month.

M. Alexander Decamps, a famous French painter, went hunting at Fon- tainebleau last week. His horse threw hum; he fell against a wail; his skull was fractured, and he died.

M. Simon, of Breslau, one of the leading men in the revolutionary move- ments of 1848, and who took refuge in Switzerland after the dissolution of the Frankfort Parliament, was drowned last week while bathing in the Lake of Wallenstadt.

A letter from St. Petersburg to the ifilitary Gazette of Austria states that the Emperor of Russia has decreed the eternal junction of two regi- ments—the King of Prussia's own and the Emperor of Austria's own—into one brigade, to commemorate in perpetuity the holy alliance existing be- tween the three countries during the reign of his august uncle and father, Alexander and Nicholas.

The Czas of Cracow has just received a warning for having "for some time past represented the political situation of Italy in a light favourable to the revolt against the legal government, having besides obstinately persisted in defending tendencies incompatible with the interest of the state," drc.

At Milan, the adventures of Garibaldi are made the subject of a military ballet, in which the heroic leader dances and wields his sabre amid the al- most frantic plaudits of the public !

A number of Irish, half-starved and in a most filthy and ragged condi- tion, arrived in Paris on Saturday and Sunday under the conduct of a Jesuit, being sent home from the Roman States, after the Pope's military authori- ties had declared it prudent and necessary to do so. These wretched men give a sad account of the treatment they received, and have no desire to become crusaders for Pio None at any price. Complaints of a similar kind come from all sides.

The fete of the Tipperary Militia at the Crystal Palace passed off with great success on Monday. The festivity was organized by the officers as a reward to the men for continued good conduct. Irish newspapers have com- pared the men of this regiment, in stature and appearance, to the Life Guards. It may as well be said that this is a very great exaggeration. The men in stature, or even in good looks, can bear no comparison with those of the household cavalry. Probably in stature they do not much, if at all, ex- ceed the average of the Foot Guards, but there is a freshness of look, a breadth of shoulder, and a roundness of limb about those Tipperary men seldom seen in other bodies of equal numbers. In cleanliness of dress and appointments, too, and upright martial carriage, they are not exceeded by any corps whatever. At the departure of the Tipperary Artillery, number- ing over 700 men, not a man was absent, and not a man was under the in- fluence of liquor.

The school of art, science, and literature, established in March last at the Crystal Palace, has been extended, and the manner in which all the leading families in the rapidly-increasing neighbourhood of the Palace, and even from a considerable distance, as well as from London, have taken advantage of these classes, promises to give 'this movement the full success it de- serves.

We have been requested to state that the Englishwoman's Journal, for the month of September, is, for the first time, printed by female compositors, at the Victoria Press.

The season of the Royal Academy, recently closed, has been the most suc- cessful on record, the receipts at the door having reached- the large sum of 11,600/. This is a considerable excess over the famous "Derby Day" year.

The deaths in London, which were 1029 in the previous week, fell to 937 in the week that ended last Saturday. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the thirty-fourth week of 1854 are excluded from the returns of previous years, it will be found that the average number of deaths in the same week during the last ten years was 1068, which, with a correction for increase of population, becomes 1175. It may be stated that the mortality of London 18 in the present season so far reduced that the deaths of last week were less by about 200 than they would have been if the average rate for the latter part of August had prevailed. This result is due chiefly to a great decrease in the mortality from diarr- hma as compared with that of previous summers, the complaint probably having been restrained by the coldness of the season, and the unusual quan- tity of rain. The deaths from diarrhcea last week exhibit a decrease on the weekly deaths, which were not numerous, of the earlier part of the present month ; they were only 69, while in the corresponding weeks of ter, previous years the average number (corrected for population) was 180. In the same week of last year, the number was 215.—Registrar-General's Return.

The Emerald, 51 guns, one of the finest frigates in the Navy, took two batteries of artillery to Alderney last Monday. She was moored within the breakwater ; safely as all supposed. But the next morning when she had shipped the relief, she could not be moved. She was aground. It appears that she had struck upon an undetected sunken rock. Every effort was made to get her off, but she lay hard and fast until floated off by the tide.

Some thieves have broken into Notre Dame, and have carried off a goodly treasure. Many sacred vessels, ornamented with jewels, have been taken away. The burglars were alarmed, it would appear, by the accidental barking of a dog. They fled, leaving much plunder on the ground, and sinking much in the Seine. A part has been recovered. Among the missing articles is a cross in diamonds given by the Emperor when his eon was bap- tized.

A destructive fire broke out at the Thames Iron Works, Blackwell, yester- day morning. It could not be confined to the engine-house where it ori- ginated, but made fearful progress, and very speedily extended to the steam saw-mills, planing-mills, work-shops, engine-rooms, and stock in the open yard. The fire lighted up Greenwich College, the Observatory, Norden College, and other buildings on the opposite side of the river Thames. A large number of engines, including the floating steam fire-engine, were Boon the spot, and finally mastered the flames.