The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-08 00:00:00

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THI Worms best Lord Limns, which appears osether edam, would add little to oar know krife lOs asmditi® and proepecte of the besieged * the Leskserer lirmielesey, even if its statements amid be depembil yen. It states that two convoys efba melds* bed lesebed Locknow t that HATS. I,OOH tame ors mended by groat numbers; that them had lema Ind lidding, and that Sir JANIS OLIN= bad boa weeded ; that Sir Cow, CANIMILL bad LS limns place, the name of which cannot be over Arad, for Cawnpore, on October 28 ; and that troops will proceed to the relief of Lucknow when in eu9l - strength." All this, with the eruption of the alleged arrival of two convoys with provisions at Lucknow, and the alleged departure of Sir COLIN for Cawnpore, we had heard before. Lord PAL. imacros '8 conjecture that the story about the convoys is merely a repetition, with exaggerations, of the account received by last mail that a convoy had reached Alumbagh, is extremely probable. As to the " NaMerOCK" from which the COMNANDLIAN. CHIEF is mid to have taken his departure, it is pro bably one of those mangled and mutilated names which issue from the blundering pose of electrie telegraph clerks. There is Neamutpore about 140 miles from Calcutta on the Grand Trunk Road ; that. is a Peopoor about 190 miles from mitts, also on the Grind Trunk Road ; mad there is a Mahoonwar a few mike from Berke*, another statiao on the Grand Trunk Read, distant some 230 mike from Calcutta. Three me the only names we can find which even the lioense of the electric telegraph clerks can be imagined to have transmogrified into Namwoor. But it is scarcely worth while seeking to puzzle out this point, seeing that no intimation was received by last mail of Sir Comex having any intention to advents speedily to the front; that the intelligemoe transmitted by Admiral LYONS appears to be aesrely the substance' of oral communications from the crew or passengers of the Oriental; sad that the Orientals merely a tassel steamer which left Calcutta about a week after the last mail despatch. There is nothing toe it but to pontos oar souls in patience for a few days more ; the Telegram is advance of the regular mail cannot now be mach longer coming to hand. By the-bye it is passing strange that this Telegram, which bears date the 4th inst., should only have been received ►t a late how yesterday, seeing that the Telegram dated the 6th, which intimated the suwelefal laying of the electric cable to Cwrfa, was received at an early hour in the morning. THE Home of Lords was occupied last night with • series of diecusime about India, conducted in a asniser not partisahrly calculated to wire the the mew d that ensembly for earneetneas of aim or aglitude he beim From the mem of contraclia try amorlisie mho regarding the alleged cone- Wpaienee between Mr. VERNON SMITH and the Neanger of Peninsular and Oriental Company, we .at Wye our readers to educe what conclusion they may. It is clear that either the mat egregious quibbling bee been practised on one side, or the avast elaborate hoax hes been practised on Lord Darn on the other. Why the denial was not given arm the mesh when ON shier. eat made, on Thandey hat, hi Wiese tithe right hon. gentleman, who, though he seohl eat speak himself, could bate instroctsd IMO of his solisegess to do so, we are at • Wes is emenive. Hut le the matter now stands, the leader of the ONO:aides is bound to redeem his pledge that he would be able to make good his startling accusa tion, or to give ap the name of the calumniator whe may have nide& him. The second c►apter in the desultory and incontle aim altercation of last night related to the contents of what was by SOMISIOS SOOSNIS eisignated "the " red pamphlet." For the general aemireey of this striking brochure Lord DISST gave his usual unqualified paraatee, while his tedious tormentor, the Duke of AZOTLL volunteered a pledge of his reputation that a awe unfaithful record of events had edam appeared is print. As the gallant author of the eraisatad pam phlet is believed to have lately Wee et his pest by the sword of the enemy, impartiaA peruse will be unwilling to preemies hastily or harshly ea the errors into whit"' big pea is said to ham Mee be. hayed ; and the porde/ memory will be apt to revert to the fate of the tahrtoate sided►trap of Lord limiLme, on whom. when dead, diseases of the blonder that ►ed to the Balmlike' charge wee sea- Musty sung by more than one of those cemented. We may be forgiven, however, for the remark in passiag, that if Lord GRANTILLS is &Mom of giving to his defence of Government see std Government measures the effect which his diacretiem and tact generally obtain for them when uttered in his pleasant, frank, and often telling way, he ought to exercise his authority more frequently to prevent their point being blunted and their edge groom oft by the pertinacious efforts of bin college, the Fem. notice that it mu hie intention to move for the production of certain Acts and Orders of Lord CASMNG, was that, however, which most of the peers had probably bees attracted by ; and considering the gravity of the - . considerations involved in the contents of the docu ments in question, it was natural to expect that an animated and interesting debate would have arisen on the anticipated peuvooation. Would Lord ELLIN. 1101101.1311 email the Govearicat-Cletream, for fetter. ing the Indian press or would he defend what he bed era, but say it was not done In titne ? Which ever am he took wee apparently rare to lead to warns discussion, and the interehange of sharp re bakes. The noble Earl seems to have been resolved on this occasion to disappoint all expectations of the kind. He neither im pugned nor defended on any broad principle the Act suspending the freedom of the pram; but confined himself to a series of elaborate strictures on the provisions of the Act and the inconsistencies so frequently pointed out in its practical operation. H. would hare drawn an absolute distinction be tween the English and the native press; just as in the Act prohibiting without license the use of arms he would have adopted opposite rules for Asiatic. and Europeans. " The English of to-day in India," he exclaimed, " ere in the position the Normans " were in Saxon England in the twelfth century; " and if you disarm them they will be destroyed ; " their only title is the sword, and se long es the " hope of resistance lives, by the sword their right to " beer rale must be maintained." Buthaving satisfied his 411111111 of producing a striking rhetorical affect by this allusion to the ancestors (by courtesy) of hie hearers, the noble Earl's better sense and calmer judgment returned their sway, and he inferentially unsaid all this in an admirable peroration, wherein be laid down, as broadly as ERSKINE or Rostius bold have done, the futility and infatuation of atiampting to govern India on the principle of setting race against race, or creating the impression that we believed our interest.., as a domi nant minority, were opposed to the interests of the mass of the native population. Unless we can succeed in winning to oar support the confidence of the princes and people of India, not only in our courage, but in our justice, our dominion over them must inevitably perish. In this view Lord ELt.e...- sonorcet would carefully discriminate between those really guilty of the crimes committed during the late revolt and those who were but presumably inculpated by doubtful acts of omission or commission. Nothing can be more true than the observation made by him, and reiterated by Lords GRANVILLE and Clary, that to render punishment exemplary and impressive it ninst be discriminating. Though necessarily general, sad consequently somewhat vague in its terms, the eking pert of his lordship's speech will be read with interest by all who value the future pace and wel fare dour great dependencies in southern Asia. On the whole it must nevertheless be owned, that it would be difficult to point out for what practical purpose last night's discussion was raised, or to what definite object it can be said to turn. The newly dimovertd theory laid down without reservation by Lard GREY, that Parliament has no business to (Atka, the acts of Governors of distant provinces, beesnee by so doing the respect for British power and authority may be weakened, is one of the oddest notions that ever fell even from the lips of that most whimsical of clever men. We shall certainly not waste words in seriously menbatting so glaringly wrong-headed and uncon stitutional an idea. No man, in fact, is more likely, to some less paradoxical mood, to find out and ex pee its absurdity than the noble Earl himself; and, OS Iced MALMERBURT reminded him, nobody has I nth ancestral pretensions to the functions of Par liamentary commentator and rumor of nuiladminie- tration aimed ea Lind OR ST. It is not the flat indication given by his lordship of recent years, however, of his tendency to take less liberal views than he was once supposed to do of public affairs. !be court. WINDSOR, McnisAT. The Qaeen and Prince Consort, with ins Princess Royal, Prisms Albs, Prises Arthur, Prison Linyeid, sad the Prisoners Mhos, Leer, d Boatrias, I Windsor, sa /1•111•16 10 drank thin morns, far Worse. sanded by lba D. at Atholl, the Hos. Lory 11. Karr, ltajor ' Gored the Hew MMus Orgy, Canna ds Pin, sad the Man se the Honshu& • Saari of honour trim the Boots Prete Goods, Wits Ste tend al the regiment, paid the anal hollows at ths rail way station. fir Priam of Warr, Modal b Mr. Gibbs and Mr. J. °ruby Om, Nadir at dr Cords. Ths M;squis 4 Desalslbms Isk Widow f Loodaa. A ariglidea et ligpowggre, imisigag of Mr. J. Mal. Wows (Wegreiril), Mr. J. Wilms (Rua). Mr. B. ligeigngs (Bellig), Kr. emir (NW*, Mr. Kamp (Plostyggd), Mr. Ogillig (UMW, Mr. Mans (Loris), mg Hr. Halsy (Iggais), el& Mr. W. Peps, M.P., Kr. Means, H.P., Hr. P. W. Rwiell, H.P., Mr. H. M. Won. H.P., gad CeL Nob, H.P., had an Yoram WI bray of Alia* god tlia Right Has. Reign Lew, grogingsy, at the Dowd et Tads. - IY Iltig CI IS of tio Privy Corsi met mew. lley. Tie appal (tbe Itempert), Vico bibelleity, be. Haien (port beavd) we eateledol. Dew;in am; riadval at Os WealdWen yeasthay, tom M. Gamma a/ C. Coyka. Naas Km& the /daariltaa Nov South Wilda, Vidieds, Tamale* Nov iread, sad South Amallia. THE ADJI OF PARLIAMENT. We understand that, if the debate on the Beak Charter Committee is not adjourned, them will be nothing to prevent parliament from rising for the holidays on Monday next. It is believed to bs the intention of her Majesty's government not to entertain any business beyond that atiresent before the hosts. In any ease the two houses will adjourn in this beginning of next week till the period at which parliament usually sasembles.—Post. His Excellency the Ambassador of Franco end tho Cosy ato de Foreign,' left tows yesterday ea 'felt to the Dons sad Hamm Meyer do Roth/add, st Mont nom Bads. Hie Excellency the Mexican ?diniater and Madame ti Abikiels bile /eft Wry, k Pam. no Dears at Wellington arrived at Aps sy Mew yamandey, ben Illasia&lamps. Eta pees les hR Shasellaidaig• ea elt is alr WOliaas aad at Shreltimad Park sr Iperlda. - - Tloo Doke and Deana of Montrose are stayisg oa a 'Wit with Lord art Lai Rothmeier, at Saadodoy Pork The Emil and Comatose of Laneaboyough hays Maenad to town, from Swill:dud Hall, Loughborough, for a few days. _ _ . Visconnt St. Lawrence is recovering from the merlon. accident his lordship mat with a how days rims, while bunting in Ireland. Viaeonnt Canterbury left town yesterday for Loogisata Park, Wdts, ce a visit to the Materna of Bath, wier is entertalaing a =mom drab d Minsk Sir William aad I.dy Middleton let town yes terday for Rumbled Perk, whom they are about to receive Ms le* Menem Or Duke at Cambridge and a aged death. The Dowager Lady Shelley and Mies Shelley tone mertood r Pereteee's Hotel, Bektevie, from Rugby. Mr. W. B. Beanmoot, M.P„ will leave town on theleilq, to Ma Lady Marvel*, at Home, whore they lima hi oloy it two or tam mouths. A newriise is dated to be on the !aria between' the E. Owid N. Prseroby, brother of the Beet et Ale. beteegb, ANA lay Marls Coventry, mister at the Bed el Coventry. Sir Clarks Napier paid a visit to Falkirk, We wan place, oa S.ftirday last - .•COuut . de Moroi," says the IrviApaulatice of Itsvarsia, "r. marl • Yaw bur. which be Mai la l• be Maid to a rresisi psoitior, will ream of pup hr barb, S mad simile placed buten II paw ; W be ha hal it pot be he ban at ths Preeihney d is Caradoe, whew k le so chat of cariosity tea Arhus." INDIA LA'flat LN'rELLIGENCS FROM MIA. The following telegram is forwarded to ns from the Foreiga-offioe, where it was received yesterday, 6.36 p.m.: FROM LORD LYONS. YALTA, 2 P.m, ern DlO. I Political intelligence received at Baer, per (him-1 tal, on the 28th November. Two convoys of provisions arrived safely at Luck now, where Havelock still was surrounded by large numbers of the enemy, who were said to have there hunched guns. There had been some severe fighting, and General Ostram wee reported to have been wounded. Sir Colin Campbell and staff left Namwoor for Cawnpore 28th October, to which place the troops were being moved up as quickly as possible, and will proceed to the relief of Lecknow when in suffi cient strength. The following steamers arrived in Calcutta with troops since the departure of the last mail :—Sydney, Australian pared Lady Jocelyn, 10th of November, and Candis, near Sandheads. There were athiadres the steam-ships Victoria and Carthage. At Galls the Robert Lowe and Cleopatra, and ships, merchantmen. The Emma left Aden, the 20th, for Bombay, Cal cutta, Ist November; Madras, Bth November; Gale, 20th November. (Signed) LYONS, Admiral. Consul CRAIO. Oagliari, 4th, 8 p.m. AMERICA. of discount before next week—even if so soon. The dulness of the market increased towards the close, and the Rente left off at *Mfr. 86e. for cash, and 86fr. 15e. for account, being (allowance made for the dividend) a fall of 35e. and 16e. Mobilier remains without variation. The railways were weak; Northern and Eastern fell 10fr. each, and most of the other lines from 2fr. 50c. to 6fr. Grand Central rose 2fr. 60c. 'bares of the railways from Berlin to Hamburg, and from Hamburg to Bergdorf, both being the pro perty of the state. The Bank will open with the Treasury an mount current for theme shame, and will this day begin to grant discounts to the extent of 6,000,000 mares banco (equivalent to 9,000,000 fr.) The state is, moreover, in negotiation abroad for 10,000,000 mark/ bunco, in silver, to be also paid over to the Bank in the course of this week, and made applicable to the purposes of discount. ONE DAY LATER FROM NEW YORK. ARRIVAL OF THE. CITY OF WASHINGTON. CST I3fl ARD )(Alma= (nom' ova ovum' COMSI Ars.) r.) LIVERPOOL. TUMIDLY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia screw steam-ship City of Washington, Petro, com mander, has arrived with one day's later news from New York. She left that city on the 26th ult., with 270 passengers, but no specie ; pared the royal mail steamer Africa hence, going into New York. It is understood that General Walker will noon have another filibustering force in Nicaragua, and much anxiety wu felt regarding bis movements. The canals and rivers throughout the States were beginning to be frozen over. The Chamber of Commerce at Charleston have memoralised the legislature to pass an act restrain ing any bank in the State from circulating the issuer of any other bank out of the limits of the State. The firm of Trull Brothers, of Boston, engaged in the Mediterranean and Smyrna trade have SUB pended payment. It is reported that in Mexico affairs are rapidly growing worse. The Revolu tionists are in active correspondence, and the return of Santa Anna to power is deemed certain. The English news telegraphed from Cape Race, per Vanderbilt, has had the effect of imparting more coefldenoe generally. Stocks have rallied and closed firmly. Foreign exchange unaltered. Cottons in the market have advanced ic. per lb. Brcadstufik have also im proved. Flour is selling at an advance of sc. The provision market rather dull. Freights unset tled, and quotations nominal. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mole ova own PARIS, MONDAY ETININD. The Cormier de Paris, proceeding to its work es a constitutional opposition " journal clues' the French newspapers into four categorise "1. The journals which are neither for the empire nor for 'liberty. 2. The journals which are for liberty without the empire. 3. The journals which are for the empire without liberty. 9. The journals which are for liberty under the empire. Neither the empire nor liberty means tither the restoration of the Count de Chambord, or the return to France of the Count de Paris, or the triumph of the felon. Liberty without the empire means a new revolution, leading onoe again to a new dictatorship. The empire without liberty is the ideal of the journals which hare brought us into existence, just as light is a con trast to darkness. Liberty under the empire is whal we wish for, and what all friend. of reform and all enemies of revolution should wish for with es. The empire and liberty may be as easily recon ciled with each other as' the empire and peace If the empire is a glorious peace, why should it not be fruitful liberty ? What is neotesary to make liberty fruitful! That power should be virile. By the common consent of all, friends and enemies, the existing power in France unites all the condi tions of virility and strength ; the empire which is peace may therefore be also liberty." The article concludes by citing • letter of M. Wall de Oirardin's, written to the Independence an August 3 ; and I more than suspect that M. Ensile de Girardin . , whose peculiar style it is die milt to mistake, and who is now in Paris, is in reality the author, not only of the above manifesto, bet of the one that appeared in the Cowrie? yesterday. The liidependatic e notice, a report that Y. Peyrot ia likely to be started for one of the vacant seats in Paris. It is certain that if only the readers of the Praise, who are now'deprived of their journal, were to vote for him he would be returned by an enor 110e. majority. The Belgian paper also says that very high influence has been used with the Emperor to obtain, if note reversal, at least • mitigation of the sentence against the P , and that the period of its suspension may perhaps be reduced from two mouths to one, in which ease it might re-appear at the beginning of January— when the subscription, are usually renewed. The influence alluded to is evidently that of the Prince Napoleon, who has long been connected with the P . Yon may remember my having stated that it was in consequence of his interference with the management of the journal that M. Nefftser re signed the poet of rjrlacteur en chef. I doubt very much, however, whether the Emperor would now choose to interfere with M. Militia's decree, how ever he may privately regret that it should have been issued. Meanwhile, a circular has been Mined, bearing the signature of M. Rony, responsible editor of the Prete*, announcing the suspension of that journal for two months, and stating that the sub seribers will be allowed at a later period the two' months which they are now deprived of. The Spectator and Saturday Review were seized retied', be some irreverent remarks upon Count de Morny's speech to the Corps Legislatif. The Rent* was to-day quoted ex dividend. The market was tolerably steady at the opening, but there wee not much business doing. It is not sup posed that the Bank of England will follow the ample of the Bank of France and redoes the rate NAPLES. THE ENGLISH PRISONERS AT SALERNO. (Taos ova own coaasiromorr.) NAPLES, Duo. I. Mr. Parka left Naples for Genoa yesterday, to resume his duties in the service of the Sardinian government. Before leaving (that is last Sun day, the 29th November) he again visited his son. He found him and the others more composed, and asked a variety of questions, which I now proceed to give. There wee present the same prisoner whom I described as knowing a little English, and as having been chosen by the rebels to command the vessel. I said that some caution was used in speak ing before him. It is due, therefore, to that man to say that young Parks declares he had been compelled with them all to sat, and that he was not guilty of the slightest voluntary complicity. The poor man begged Parks to try to get permission for him to see his mi nister or his advocate. Parks asked who was to de fend them, for hitherto they had seen no counsel, and was it true that no counsel would defend them? In answer to a question as to the guilt of the cap tain, he declared that he was as innocent as that boy, pointing to one of the crew who had wandered in from the next room. " What makes you so nervous, so subject to palpitation, and disposed to faint ?" asked the father. " I believe it to be all owing to what I have suffered," said Parke, "and to my constant fear about Watt. He has made two attempts on his life. He sleeps in the next bed to mine, and lam compelled to watch over him. lam in a constant state of apprehension." The son said that "—, who was present in court at the time, reported to him, that Baron Nicativa on being requested to sign some papers which would have compromised the crew, declared that he would not, and that be would rather tear them. He thought that this was much in their favour. " Charles told me," said Parks, " that the *Homan to the prisoners was four grains, or twopence allay, and that, with these sums put together, the rations were purchased." Inquiries made since my last con firm what I then said about the nature of the food. " The soup stinks," said a Neapolitan capable of forming a judgment ; and another, to whom I spoke of the half-butt in the oorner for necessary pur poses, replied, "So it was with me when I was in prison." I must not prolong this letter ; lees, however, I could not say, though I never sit down to write without feeling that the subject is as painful as it is inexhaustible. And now again everyj one opens his eyes with wonder, and asks what will Lord:Clarendon do; rather, let me ask, what will my Lord Clarendon be compelled to do? for British subjects on the Continent have been insulted with impunity during the last few years, and it is time that public opinion should be brought to bear upon the government. Will no member of the House of Commons be found to take up the me of the English prisoners in Sa lerno during the approaching section ? Exchange on London,66o; Five per Cent., 114 t. THE PANIC AT HAP.IBURCI. C7lOll 01111 OWN HAMBURG, Dsc. 6. I have but little to communicate to-day, but that little is of such vital importanos that I may be excused for breaking in on the privileges of a Sunday to writs to you. At the close of my yesterday', letter the Btirgerschaft was still assembled in full oon dare, and remained sitting till pant eight o'clock in the evening, during which time the discussions were carried on with great animation and party spirit, a large proportion of the assembly being totally op. posed to the proposal of the Senate to create paper money (bank notes) without making them a legal tender, whilst others were found who eagerly supported the plan. After various negotiations with the Senate had signally failed, the two youngest senators (Messrs. Teedorff and Iluebener) appeared in the assembly to propose the appointment of a joint commission to negotiate on the disputed point, and to adjourn the Bargerachaft till this day (Sunday). The proposal being accepted, the . . Senate appointed from their own body the following gentlemen : Senators Haller, Gdfaktm, Busch, and Lutteroth ; whilst the Assem bly nominated as their representatives, Messrs. A. H. Brans, J. Ruperti, J. C. F. Refardt, Adolph Godcffroy, A. J. Hertz, Johannes Amsink, Comm Godeffroy, Adolph de Chapeaurouge, Augustus San ders, and H. S. Hertz. Before the adjourned meeting took place to-day, it transpired that the above-mentioned com mittee had not been able to bit on any plan likely to meet the wishes of both parties, and the meeting was opened with great excitement, and with hostile feeling rankling in their hearts, each party resolved not to give way—the Senate and those members of the Bilrgenchaft that are pro prietors of houses being unwilling to favour the mercantile classes by making the bank notes • legal tender, whilst the merchants impetuously demand it as the only way to escape certain de struction, and if termed, firmly resolved to wait no longer than the day after to-morrow (Tuesday), and then suspend payment altogether. This is the awful alternative, and all the first houses of this city—such as Merck., Godeffroys, Nottebohms, Schroder., Echoes, as well as the great Altana houses of J. H. and CI. F. Baur, and C. H. Donner—arc mutually bound to follow this course. As the assembly of the Biirgersehaft cannot fail to be a stormy one, so there is also every reason to expect that it will be protracted to a very late hour. Although to-day is Sunday, the Exchange is as crowded as on a week day, and the whole city is in a state of excitement and fever of expectation, certainly not in keeping with the usual decorum and sanctity of the Sabbath, and, fortunately, but seldom broken in upon in this manner in any continental city. But everybody is deeply alive to the fact that the very existence of Hamburg is at stake, and that if the Senate remain obstinate and refuse the demands of the merchant.. the commercial prestige and glory of Hamburg is lost, and that she will topple down headlong from her lofty pinnacle in the estimation of the commer cial world, and will lose, perhaps for ever, that high position for solidity and well-earned credit which she has hitherto proudly maintained. Ilespatches from Hamburg, in the Brussels ) Independatsce, state that the Senate and the bur gesses had acme to an understanding. They hare agreed to abandon the Woe of a paper money and a forced circulation. A sum of 16,000,000 mares banco (about 28,000,000 fr.), will be granted to the bank of discount; and the Trusimry is this day to deposit at the Bank en mount et 6,000,000 i THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER IN ASIA. The Paris Moniteur of this day announces that the Commission of the Four Powers signed, on the sth inst., at Constantinople, the final act of the rectification of the Russian frontier in Asia. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, of the sth, says: "During the last three days the Berlin Boone has been in an unparalleled state of agitation, and nothing but failures are heard of on all sides. The commercial diameters at Hamburg, among the old est and best houses in that city, have a du' es trous reaction in Prusia. It must be, however, observed that the commercial community of Ber lin are themselves mainly to blame for the crisis which has now fallen on them. Accommodation paper, which for many years bee given a facti tious existence to many of the houses in this ca pital, is the great canoe of the evil. In no other city in the world has this system been carried to such en exaggerated extent as here ; and, as might have been expected, the filet storm has blown it all to the ground. The law against usury has been suspended for three months, but this measure of the government will not be sufficient to check the pro- greet of the crisis, which affects not only the com merce of Berlin, but also the large manufacturing establishments at Gorlitz, Groben, Dentxic, &c. An attempt was made the day before yesterday to found a discount company, for which purpose the principal commercial men of the capital assem bled. The meeting was attended by MM. Magnus, Keichenheim, and other bankers, but it broke up without doing anything in face of the difficulties which presented themselves." BELGIUM. (non • BRIT . /3/74L8, Dac. 6. Only four days now intervene before the great electoral contest, the preparations for which have been sufficiently described in my former letters. It is therefore enough now to say that the excitement of this struggle has attained its utmost pitch. The journals are engaged in discussing the claims and qualifications of the respective candidates, and neither ono aide nor the other is sparing of personal attack ; but you would scarcely believe what insult' I are daily cast, by the organs of the clerical party, upon the liberals and the ministry. This has been carried so far that M. Hagler has thought himself called upon once more to reply to them through the Moniteur. The following appeared this morning in the government joarnsl; The policy Gillis ablest his been anealla with extreme violence, and a the at Weir accusations, by so 'oral oppomitisals and eisteersi addressee, the authors of whiff mane to be the teareendatime of the party of mike end mothrodea The added thinks It fit, so long as these attacks and asseeelkes melee thornless to (masti tis', to let the ad rtY seemed tomoliced. Bat armed pare over in Mass as aulesie which see &hely ascribed to it. We tartars id MEM to declare that lils ',Shay untrue that the Oaks of sogromang the taw tion. It I. mildews to arts to alarm the inemdio- Wig b aappeine h to be the Maass cd ao , ammeset lo dlimb Me anode wean elate cawatry. The bade seasweeellelbeled Y he ablest eldt reprd I to alike Mg W shills en elm MIS odious, end the °Mast sopa eat lesialial aid lalpiamically. La ardor to egitassed Y the sleeked body ear arena psoheas le Ng swirl= ea the Indus Maser al the casep. delis Yan ran white rayberee pity would edema hue atleplete. The Irak Is ea the goanuesat resolves * el brew pewees the meet complete was ewes at ha seeldres ad geed all. Calassalelog even the pralines led pile Wag or die country, party =SHOO kr eedetweeed ease a beef the aloe end order will net be reserved &Wog He shams. We have no beta ha la eitreng the ewes prediodoes all be entirely felei lied by the amt. In spas ce all the acilimente and odious its adversaries, the government Crll i r s Ira that thet the electoral will everywhere be andmad with order and ity, end that t moells, be they what they may, will be nicaved with lemma end t. The statement respec in this official article, with respect to the friendly relations between the new cabinet and foreign governments, is strictly correct. Since the earliest days which followed the installation of the new ministry, M. le Baron de Ware, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received the corps dipionsagiqus in hie Worn, and ham given those gen t/ism/a such explanations of the plans and intentions of the cabinet se have been found to give general satisfaction. The there entative of Austria is the only one who, up to the present time, has not had an interview with M. de Vridre. It is presumed, how ever, that the absence of M. Vrints de Vreuenfeld will not be prolonged after the elections. The elections, which are to take place next Thursday, promise a certain triumph of Liberal opinion. At Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Arlon, Brunelle, Lite, and Mons, the clerical party brings no candidates who have a chance of muses against the Liberal list. At Huselt the clerical list will carry the day; at Namur there will be a struggle, and the victory will, no doubt, be partly claimed by either side. At Ypres there ham been a curious compromise ; the two parties have come to an under standing to ns-eleot /dews. Malou and Vanden peereboom ; one, the author of the report upon the toevent Bill; and the other, the future Minister of Public Works. Their elections will not be con tested. DEVOTEDNESS OP THE KING OF PORTUGAL.— A Lisboa letter relates the following enscdote annopliOcative of the derotabseas of the young King of Portugal to one of his 'kite M the military hospital .—" Approaching a bed on which wee lying the trumpeter of • revelry regiment, he stooped down, and throwing Ida arma round the almost in animate body of the patient. cried out with a firm but kindly voice,: ' Chow up, friend, chef up I You are not going to die yet. Tales mange I I em sun I shell one of these dm hear the sound of your' trumpet ender the windows of my palace I' The etch men seemed to rouse up at the mod of the young lifag's vales, his eyes opened, end a fatal colour TON 10 hie cheek. He premed his sovnidge's hand In token of graft de, and from that messed revived to en butane*, and be le now not only out of danger, but recovering rapidly." Galigesetti in repeating this enecdote, rye:— " We tellers we can state that the Emperor of the Frisch bee been so struck by the courage end devotedness displayed by the King of Portugal dining •he whole of the rid:take of the yellow fever that his Idejerty has cheered Count Ws- Weld, Kistlater of Foreign Affairs, to transmit to the Wag, through Baron de Para, Portuguese Wainer, the eve r. donee hie ✓name edroiration." The Espana of Madrid states that the following wws nearly the terms of the telegraphic despatch by shish the Qeeen Chris.lns replied from Paris to the Qessa's es _ nouncement of the birth of a sort •—" My &snot daughter, —Blessed be God, end nay He long pmeerm the grandchild whom He has given me fce.yom Welty and for that of Spain. I will strew to obtain dbect news of your health. I hope they will be good, end I pray God for your well being, end for that of your eon end of his deter. Salutation to your husband. and receive the blaming of your mother." . • The Court of Sard i n i a has gone into mourning for a fortnight on &coolant of the death of Princess Marla Asyut. Frederik., daughter of the Bing of Saxony. Sir Oupard I e biarchut, at present Governor of 1 Non Buda, will auseed Bit W. R. Reid as Governor of Naha. Bir Gaspard will be replaced at Bantu by Lord Malgrare, who by thla appointment vacates Isla lest for Boarbannits. Lord !deigns'd will be succeeded es Ter serer at the lionaehold by Mr. Spbacer Barceby, who hae law filled the dike of Private ascretery to Lord Clareadom It le a little remarkabb that both the Iseoadas sad entrain Gamma of Naha marred ta the British Auxilisry Leeks odor BA De Lay Beans.—Thers. CANADA. (mom OUR ow,' COI TORONTO, Nov. 23. The condition of the emigrants who hive reached our shores this season is exciting some discussion in the press. Many of them are scud to have gone back, and are reported u being in great destitution. In quiries have shown that these accounts are greatly exaggerated. In all seasons many emigrants return, dissatisfied with the country or their position in it, and there are probably not many more this year than usual. Few, in fact, are able to return, and there are fewer still who give up a new country without a struggle. As to the destitution, the promptest relief has been afforded by the public authorities, and all who apply will be forwarded to the back country, where work is plentiful. In 1847 the emigrants were nearly 100,000 in number, and though the times were as bad then as now, before the winter was over few of them were to be seen in the city streets. This year only 32,335 persons have landed, and the faci lities for absorbing them are many times greater than in 1847. The diminution in the number of Irish arriving and the corresponding increase in English is remarkable. The following is a state ment of the emigration of the season just closed by nationalities : English , 11,098 ; Irish, 4,446 ; Scotch, 4,924; Germans, 4,872 ; Norwegians, 6,119; Swedes, 351 • Belgians, 216; Canadians , 51; total, 32,087. The emigration agent at Quebec reports that there has been very little sickness among the English, Irish, and Scotch emigrants, the average mor tality having been not more than one-third of one per cent, chiefly confined to children. The foreign passengers have suffered more • but among them the average mortality between embark ationi in Europe and landing in Quebec has been less than one and three-eighths per cent, children included. The mortality at sea has been confined to the sailing ships : not a single death has been re ported on board any of the steamers. The agent strongly recommends the steamers, not only on the score of health, but also of comfort and economy, taking the shorter time oonramed on the voyage into account. He also recommends them to leave early, not later than July, and in April if possible : and he desires that they should not engage their ticket. to the west until they arrive in Quebec, un less when they are going to friends, because the best labour districts are sometimes to be found to the east of Toronto, to which place emigrants are gene rally ticketed. He adds : Immigrants will avoid all danger of imposition ' and will receive fray Utility sad advice by applying at this office cm their arrival—a printed tariff of the routes and rates of trana pest to the chief places In the provinoe sad western states, railway and stennen, is harnished by the agent of this who beards each ship on arrival, and the intraM can have no proper induoemmt to receive the interred ad. vice oared to him. The general condition and prospects el those of the immigrants of the year who have been fitted by their education and previous condition for removal to • coun try Duch se Caned& presents Welt' are not unistisfactory g the demand ke bible:ere of industry and intelligence, but more espeatelly for agriculttuista, was greet throughout the - province daring the spring and summer months, and in many ports of the province the humeri oun. pinned of great inconvenience and loin for want of this de. aaiption al labour. Domestic servants—more particularly female•—were universally implied for, and readily found employment at good . Icle warns men without trades or other settled occupations that they will find the same difficulty in succeeding here se at home, and winds up his follows : 7'f: as urine caly to repast, that although persona having capital, with the judgment sad expenenoe to guide its em ployment, must passer great Montages in Canada, All there is ample encouragemimt for the hardy and industrious, IMO without large resource' at their command. Farm labourers are mole generally sought for, and fair wages are always open for their acceptance. But indeed, no man who yammer health and changth, with a determination to Wits up seek afir of employmmt as may be made to him, ran fail to ant aped livelthood ; nor, if be aeries his Intelli gente, • short period, greatly to improve hie condition anlest af hie hanily. Lands are o p en for purchase or emu- Lit nem thee ItZf i llt sw am within easy reach, sad the man who is cannot be long in any employ er Vassal Wag up store to enable him to be ams a miller end reprises, eta lot of land, which in a few yeses may bombe a videsble TEI LEVLiTHAY. The work at the launch was rammed early yerter• day morning, end with great didicnity • Mort of a few inches was made. Defortinntely, the pressure required after this woe so meat that the simply-pip= of two of the hydronlio roots were hung or broken In wash a manner that a consider raids delay wee ommioned before they were aufSciently re paired to be St for men end it was two o'clock before further efforts wen made. Between that hour and half-past four o'clock, when work was disocatkomd, several small slips wise mode, the bow showing at every time a much Increased tendency to dented fester than the stem. During Satur day this tendency showed itself in a gain of 16 inches en the stern, but at the ChM of the day's labours yesterday the bow had descended 10 fast 7 Mabee, while the stern had only moved 3 fast 4 inches ; and tale Mows in progress had so turned the etas cradle en the ways es to induce an inereseed amotmt of friction, which dednetsd oonsiderably from thu amount of program It is, however, confidently expected _ _ that the monk et to-day's iTnestlayi work will pat the mead in such a position as that she may to safely left to the mamas of the nest owing Wm. INDIAN MOINT 2BLIBP POND. We have mesh pleasure in stating that the mm of 4191. 6e. bas been forwarded to this committee, being the resides of a fond which wee collected by British subjects in Rork dating the late war, for the relief of their fellow countrymen who were prisoners of war in that country, and It is to be hoped that the lona rouse will be adopted with regard to the morphia of other funds. Pleuy persona US labotuing under the erroneous hapreasion that the applicants for relief are few fa number, and that the distress is much exaggerated ; the Mewing extract from a letter from Cal. cutta, of 22nd October, will tend to correct this impression: —" I have been favoured with yours of the 10th ultimo, and em happy to observe the degree of moms that has attended your kind exertions in the good cause of the sufferers by the Sepoy revolt. The full extant of the dieter will not be known or felt for some time, ea many who have been deprived of their all have not yet reached any place of refuge, and doubtless when they are enabled to leave the stations in which they are located—inch so Agra, Luelmow, Lands= de—a terse smarten to the number of applicant, for relit will present themselves." MUSIC. CONGREGATIONAL PSALMODY. The Rev. Mr. Waite, of Hereford, has cent mooed a course of Lectures and Exercises in Congrega timed Psalmody at Bbomsbury Chapel. The proceed ings last evening wee not as much • lecture sa general rehearsal. There was a large ammoblage el pupils of the carious London mho* ar matted aewrding to their various voicee ; and they rang a number of prima, under the direction of Mr. who carefully and felkitonaly pointed out to them the way to give peeper sopmwdosi and ales to the music. The Mimed parts were Arm takes leprately ; than all the voices were combined, but without secompaniment ; and lastly, several were of • hymn were swag to the tuns, accompanied by the organ. The Wagers midway took From delight in their occupation ; they rag not only with purity, but Ira energzad an ieelinf i rd iweduced vary impressive and beauti ful tease wire all selected hem Mr. Waite's Col recelon ealided the . Hallelajah," which appears to be a pubacatlea et mash week The melodies (those at least that were mug ha night) were more flowing and rhydimieel that peaU tunas usually an • but they wee swiletrody marked with raiiglous character:and accompanied with grave sad simple herasoake. THE EANTIZN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—A gentle. men, who has tendefrel no with his mends the follow ing sanstive ots }army on this line .—"On Saturday after noon I left London by the 2.30 train ; the engine could hardly draw It into the Lerybridgm station, which is only 21 miles tram the compeny's wain at inatfred. We started again. Mt can te • dead step bane reaching Tottenham. In three a bee Eska= • asses eagles was men coming be hind m; tbs guard wt to resat tt, sad got the driver to pea ea into Tatinksam. Hs en us going spin, and then left sa. It took 24 lanais to get has Paden End is Waltham (3 nefles), sad then only by the asittain of ea Madly driver of $ goods train, who pasha m from as Oidnanos Feaewy station. We reached Waltham 43 minutes late, the whole travelled being under 16 mike." 8011771 KENSINGTON Muar.ox.—During the week Dee. the eaters have been as foUows —Os 111 =Y. Tussley_ wad Saturday (tree days), 2.027 ; sa Nada and Tmeity (tree evenings), 4,323 ; a the then sada& days (eltaission to the public. 64.),636 ; as Masa mob' (Wednesday), 162 ; total, 7,72 8. PP