The Express. — London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

HARM N'IUMS—NEW MODEL.— /au" ma 0... us. Isgerares. TM DAILY NEWS LONDON NOININO I.l=a2b=stir= semliii et 1 lobs 112P= 1. 101 . 1: ri=irg Wl= Minas," allas-ali aar b or M IN/OUSOW 11311111 :ate WINJ er r Mama. A. a m i d.*hr Sr • lormigi 11"." firAtt2 raising() WM. ✓ia tr. CLIJDIS ALL 081.11.1711 ADVllmpluirra ikas dm., =Ts Va r i s ame ,„t rzz, =▪ a a ens 41. gmbir. pig ape expreoo. &mamma &mar we. newt b. at tb• Onsit 11. 6 IlegmbrdatiO. by Tull Mob el do Isir polilloollm. 141TNAM/Ht. TON Imam Irruors TO coicium nom ame. TlL—Aalrt. .44 t SS nft. lllll 4 ns_ . M 11101111111/1, Tao MD II TIE HARE. it.m. Ibleisr4, 1111111.1 . 11M0-0 """ e ft l TT i mail -AM TIE MI WTI 14 Illah,rr - Oralre al T. ZION DAVIN AT LONDON 111D01. r Daviaz im i ft. --.... Montan. ft. 41s. 71. lbs.- akinasa. Tb. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. N. One of our War Ministers hes been far seise time angsged Is the destruction of grocer. The other, id= easeesures and better taste, is relaxing himself wig the arrtlsl revelries of the Camp at Chilean. Yu Pint= CONSORT is diligently stalking deer and the Karim of England is keeping state in her =sustain palate, beyond the limits of the telegraph, sad oat of reach of her responsible ode fliers. And all this time hr away then, ander the sun of India, le being fought oat the deadly struggle on which the heart of this country is est with a deed so licitude—upon whew chances and changes from day to day depend the foetuses of our great Eastern Empire, the imperilled lives of the sees of Eng- Sod, sod the tassel chastity of her daughters. A gallant Chief, appraised with fistful odds, is doing heroic battle for us in the thick of this tremendous strife. li►rgt.octt and his indomitable little army =dead in numbers, encumbered by sick, encumbered even by the spoils of victory—have by this time either succeeded in an enterprise almost beyond the limits of military prowess, or eucembed to diScaltim which no human valour and endurance could surmount. We shall soon know the exact truth. We will not speculate en what hes a month ago been untied one wiry se the ether in India, and in a few hours or a low days will become history here. But there is one feet connected with the deeds of this gallant band and its commander which we in England do know, and on which, through all rinks of Moiety, comment of a certain description is pretty *item/jetty current. In the intervals of leisure, in the few days allowed from the more premier ewers of grow and deer, Aathseity hen band tints to reward the deeds of Major-General Hasttoen with a good tents pension of lON. a you• The head of the British Army ham said practically to t►is brilliant British soldier, " You have done well, •ad we mean to indicate our sense of it. With • couple of thousand men, in the wont season of the Indian year, yet advaneed wiliest a force ten times MI numerous me your own—a force trained in the exact discipline of the British service, and fur idshed with • formidable artillery, which It knew well how to manage. In nine days yea marched 120 miles, you fought four actions, you captured 21 guns. You occupied the city of the miscreant RAJAH, you drove him beyond the Ganges. After a few hours' pause, you followed him across the stream, fighting every step of the way, through • land of swamps and marshes; yes mimed your victorious career to within • day's march of Lucknow ; end when the last despatches lett, you were preparing--undismayed by the gather ing cloud of year enemies, the ravages of names, and the havoc of the sword—to renew your march after a temporary retreat which the presesee of • mortal disease in your camp had rendered en absolute necessity. Whatever may be tho ultimate malt of your present campaign, whether Locknow be relieved or not, we think these estrriees so eminently meritorious, that we have without hesitation awarded you— • good service pe ision of 1001. a year for life' We have takes care that this fact shall be praninently announced in the Ministerial prints, sad we trust, when the report of this ready and liberal recognition of your nerviest shall reach Ind* it will be the means of in citing others to emulate those deeds which • grateful country is thus prompt to acknowledge." One bandied pounds • year for one of the most brilliant and timely services that has ever been achieved! One hundred pounds • year foe the fleet decided check that has been given to this mutiny, which without check would in • few months deprive as of India! One hundred pounds for • campaign which will take its place in history with the ex ploits of Ct.tvz, and WELLENLEY, and NAPHIA But then we are told by the Ministerial prints that this penaioe is only an instalment of honour— that far more is in store—that we have only to give the authorities time, and that some more adequate recognition will be accorded. Just now, unluckily, every ono is away—it is the most inconvenient season in another month or so, when business can be attended to, General HAVELOCK, rely upon it, will not be forgotten. Be it so; bat that is preeiaely our complaint; everybody is away at the very moment when every body ought to be herr, whine presence is, at any time, of any importance at all. As the Times of yesterday maid with perfect truth, " there ia " merely • Minister in London : even the 'fkron 6. • lain of Honour' itself ie far away in the High " lands, out of reach even of Telegraph." It iv so, and it ought not to be so. Go when you will this topic is daily growing into more painful prominence. and it becomes the imperative duty of independent Journalism again and again to remind the holden of high office and the inheritors of exalted rank, that great power imposes grave re amiability ; that public personages cannot live for themelen; and that an apparent indifference to the public letters*, which in a private person might pre unreproved, soon becomes fatal to the popularity of • finister or • Sovereign. There is nothing which the people so little tolerate as any overt want of sympathy on the part of their rulers with any pumice that stirs theta deeply. The higher the station the deeper the woend. On that night in I•perial Item, when the names of a vast con flagration spread rapidly from temple to tower, there was doubtless many a splendid supper party as the Familia( Hill, and many • wild scene of debauch in the casinos of the Sabena. In that vast end 'daemons city the dance and the song ceased not though the Capitol ma in a blaze. Their ZXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova wont . PARIS, ?Mai ivrowee. The following telegraphic &wadies have been reeeived from Eitraahurg and. ataugarit : Orsaismio, Sire. U. The Emperor set out this sang et eight deli* ctapnid by hht adwomlas Wei iisersidsi. "Wei Olga gtw .g thmedves Y awls r .wry ON at Ids Ws Mety's mule, ad mina Ma Ida asibriedie sediertissi from Strasburg M LW. The Rapier esM leesklast it Baden, at the eseldeees al the Grand DRAMS Slipirais. eed Amami here for Mattered; where the lospear of Rorie has Mindy arrived. ilia Majesty sear' deeply Impressed by the profoundly sympathetic reception even him by the population of Alsace. STUTTGART); SIM. 25. The Emperor Napoleon arrived here this Mermen at half•peat four o'clock. The King of Wurterabiew received him et the railway oration, and conducted him to the pa lace, where they were immediately joined by the Emperor of Runk. The Empress of Eerie, it is expected, will join the imperial perry to-morrow. Some of the German journals comment on the singular coincidence of dates which marks the inter- view of the two Emperors at Stuttgardt, it laving been on the 27th of Sept., NOS, that Napoleon I. and Alexander of Russia met at Erfarth. Forty nine years later, very nearly to a day, Napoleon 111. and the Emperor Alexander will meet at Stuttgardt. The conferences of Erfurth lasted from the 27th al l Sept. to the 14th of Oct. But a more striking coin cidence still is that, to-morrow, Sept. 20, is the forty second anniversary of the day on which the treaty I of the Holy Alliance at Paris (Sept. 26, 181 d) by Russia, Austria, and Prussia. The Petrie, in a paragraph, ushered with all the honours of position and type, draws a favourable augury for the peace of Europe from the news that the Prince of Prussia is to pay his respects to the Emperor Napoleon at Stuttgardt, and that the Car will meet the Emperor of Austria at Weimar on the 30th : Thum two facts warm the hopes which we have always entertained of the wisdom of the great German pewees. They prove that both Vienna and Berlin have understood the necessity of that non-isolation from European union of which the interview of fittings/de is the moat striking testimony. We mu hot applaud this doutile resolution of the Emperor of Avatrla end the King of Penmen, and we see In It s new gweranter for the award of the great European powers, and lkir the maintenance of the peace of the world. _ _ The Bourse continues to be extremely buoyant. The Rents rose 40c. both for cash and account, clos ing at 137 fr. 70c. and 137 fr. 75c. Mobilier roe 12fr. 70c. The railways were not quite so active, but most of the lines rose from 2fr. 30c. to life. Southern fell Ur. 30e. A telegraphic despatch from St. Petersburg, of Sept. 23, states that a terrible Sri bad occurred on the 19th among the 'hipping in Lake Ladoga, and had destroyed 200 outward-bound vessels laden with merchandise. 'This disaster has caused great excite ment in the Russian capital. A public subscription is likely to be set on foot for the erection of a sepulchral monument to Mania. I believe the government will make no opposition. The &side complains that because Menlo'. funer►l was ordered on a humble scale of expense, the clergy of the Trinity Church said only a low mar, and that in a lateral chapel. It could, however, hardly have been expected that priests of the Catho lic church would go out of their way to honour the memory of the most eminent champion of the inde pendence in Italy. The French government has received advice. that the Emperor of Russia has sent his aide-de-camp Prince Gallitrin, to Sebastopol, to inquire into a charge made sgathst certain Russians of having de secreted tombs in the French and English cemeteries there, and to punish the guilty parties. The parti priers having circulated a great many untruths about the death of Lamennaia, his nephew, M. Blaixe, has published a circumstantial account of the closing scenes of his life, from which it appears that the illustrious author of the Paroles dam Creyant, when hard premed by the priests, whom the late Archbishop Sibour sent to his bedside to endeavour to obtain a retractation of his free thinking opinions, dictated a memorandum to M. 'lend Martin, the historian, which he afterwards found strength to correct and sign with his own hand, in which he expressly declared his intention to die " out of the bosom of the catholic church." Ate later period, and when he was nearly at the last extremity, his niece and residuary legatee, deter mined to make a last effort, came to the death bed, and calling him by an endearing abbreviation of his Christian name said, " Fell, do you ask ter a priest! you want a priest, do you not ?" "Amerman raised himself op in the bed, and answered emphatically, "No, no, no!" To the question how it could have happened that so vigor ous a mind as that of Lemennais, after having daring the first half of his life eloquently defended ultramontane doctrines and the sovereign preroga tives of the papacy, should have ultimately broken with Catholicism, of which he was one of the most ardent apostles, his nephew replies that " so long as M. Lamennais wrote in support of Romish doctrine be was the idol of the clergy, who lived upon the eruitis of his genius; but when he espoused the cause of the people, and enunciated opinions which, if acted upon, would have ruined the temporal interests of Rome, he was placed in the index and pursued with every species of calumny." M. Maize describes at length the progress of his uncle's religious convictions, and affirms that he died as ho had long lived, a firm believer in God, but a God who does not regard the mediation of any exclusive church as a passport to his presence. M. ilaise's book establishes beyond all doubt that the story which the priesthood would fain have accredited, that Lamennais renounced in ex trenua the matured opinions of his life, is as un founded as the similar tale that they tell in regard to Chateaubriand and Beranger. The Slick pays the following tribute to the ser vices rendered by England to civilisation : We most say to the merit of England that she the Rest renounced European coequals. Bhe transported her ambi tion to other elimn, sad has bad the immense honour of giving birth to one of the greeted nations of the world—to America, the land of liberty par czeoltrotre. Iles con quests have almost always been conquest' of ear metre and civilisation. Russia, Austria, Pros* lave extended their dominions at the expense of fete European antiorts whose nationality they have dsmeeyed, whose development they have stifled. The English here not committed this crime. In this respect they resemble France and bare nothing to restore. They have sought for the element, of their expansion beyond Europe. They ham peopled the solitudes of Americo, and have called to life the new world of Oceania. U, to becoming masters of India by the course of events, they have not changed its condition, we must likewise take into account time and the immen sity of the difflcultice But they have eibteted great deeds in India, and in order to appreciate English rule in that prainaula, we must reflect on its erudition previous to the conquest, when million, of men perished in tellgiona wars, ea in the rise and decline of empires. The martens which now inspire horror in all Europe would hays been comidend mere pastime before the advent ed British rule. The Stele concludes by stating that the greataem of Englend foams, at the present mom( nt, one of the conditions of universal security, and that her disappearance from the rank of great nations 4. would produce aa inconceivable cataclysm, foe THE EXIPRESEI, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1857. strewn . theitsrl garlands moist with Falernian, on C 001616 of mem, under showers of perfume% to the of iSlCiViOtli lutes, the sons tl BMA!, " " with insolence end wine," drained deep tl rhino goblets and chanted their Ilseehic songs on that night as on others. Contemporary /minket took no heed of the untimely re vellers ; the bread stream of history spreads cabs and onrippled over their noteless graves. But there was one concert and one solo performance cm that memor►ble night which Rome never forgave, end the world has not yet forgotten. That " Neao " addled while Rome wee burning "—this, more they ell his follies end all his crimes, was the thing that and shook the inveterate attachment of the Ramses populace for the far descended heir of the Curtin. Queen Vletoatt is the most deservedly popular Sovereign that has ever se on the British Throne, but we doubt whether all the felicities of her reign and the virtues of her character have rooted her so firmly in the harts of her people as the deep and noble sympathy she showed with the heroism and the "offerings of the Crimean war. We are confi dent she feels not less for the heroism and the suf ferings of this great struggle in India. But we, who have means of knowing what is said, and whispered, and written in many departments of society—we who are sedulously eager that no breath of unpopu larity should for a moment dim the clear mirror of our English loyalty—think it our bounden duty to tell the confidential advisers of the Crown that in this season of extreme public solicitude, the pro tracted residence of her MAJESTY "beyond the reach " eves of the telegraph," is only too likely to be misin terpreted by a large section of the public into a proof of indifference and want of sympathy, which we are quite certain u as remote as possible from the truth. Ilse MAJESTY will not hear these things from the courtiers who surround her, nor from the flatterers— of all others, perhaps, the most dangerous in a lettered age—who cry " Peace, peace, when there is " no peace," through the servile medium of depen dant journalism. We, who are independent, can, and ought to speak out. We have done so. Of course, we shall give offence; for that we arc well prepared, but we know that we have done our duty. Han MAJESTY'S 32ND REGIM ENT IN Lcritow.— Five officers of this gallant regiment were promoted without the in the Gazette of Friday last; three of the number—Major Lowe, Captain M'Cabs, and Lieutenant Charlton—to vacancies caused by " killed in action,"—a sad but significant proof of the dangerous service in which the gallant fellows have been neently engaged. The 32nd constitutes the chief European force in the garrison of Lucknow, numbers about 1;00 rank and le, and is exceedingly sheet in its complement of officers. Nearly all the trim and families of the men and officers were sainifieed in the Cawnpore massacre, together with the poor invalid soldiers and pensioners ; but there are, notwithstanding, upwards of 300 women and children, and helpless people, under the protection of the garrison. Since the 27th of May, the day of the first outbreak, this heroic band, with their Eu ropean companions, have been shut up within the walls of the Residency Fort, incessantly harassed by the ire of shot and shell coming from the well served artillery of the 20,000 mutineers by whom they are invested. The casualties which have taken place are mainly owing to the conies which the measure of famine and absolute necessity render imperative. It was in one of these desperate sallies that the gallant and noble Sir Henry Lawrence re ceived his mortal wound ; and by the last mail it is reported his successor in the Political Residency, Major Banks, bad abased a similar fate. 11* Court. BALMORAL, lire. 14. The Queen drove oat yesterday, accompanied by the I Priam* Aare sad Prises Arthur. Her Namely wee = t the lire. A Hew nom Meakereld, the Earl el Aberdeen, Vow . Gerdes. TM Prime Consort aunt out apes the bah dear stalking. The ?them Royal nalroat, anode& by Lady Charchdl. la the evadui her gave • ball to the tenants upon the Belmarel sod • embalms, to the paarkerpere, marnsta, sad Ohm, alai wiree sad daeghteral The Qom, with the Priam Costa; the Prima. Royal, Primmer Liao, Prisons Edna, Piteous Lorries, wino Altraljped Prises Arthur, . .surd the bell-room at a quar tet Wore tan o'clock, deachug hariag previously coureesord. Rao Majesty, the Pries Consort, mid the royal family re mind whamming the tredve acme toed Latium eleven dela& The mute amistad et Ludy Mucha the Ho. Nara M4duaald, the Bea. Km A. Gordos, Earl ()motile, the LA al A Miljer-04•RSI the Flea. C. Or e, , Cobol the lieu. C. Hr. Becker, Lississant mad Be. Reherteos. Ditmag wee hope up until a We hew. Moupatehes win weird et the Coisulakillos yeakeday ban tho Goewsors uf Coyle., Ho. Krug, ths Mauritius, Malts, Towassis, Violet* New South Wales, New Zs:a lms& sad South Australia Ihopasehri won sent to tits Groomisto d ths North Amass perelassu DAT OT NATIONAL PIATIL2.—We have moan to haw, thot, et the Petty Goon baid at Sanwa yester day, a royal preelawatles wee tweed setting sport a day few ~none) bowilloden aid prayer, to eunniquenee of the un brewers 'wets wide( hew the Indian mutiniea. The day edeeled fee Ws wpm would in WI probability be Sunday, the ilk 'f Oteebere—Obte. llis Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief and his august mother and *ter, the Dueller sad l'elacem Mary of Cambridge, and mite, including the Lady Geraldine Somenst, Lord Burgher* Baena Kane lack, Colonel Clifton, Colonel Maude, ke., arrived at Ma Regal Ship Hotel on Thunday, from Calais and Paris, la thews mail picket Prise Frederick William, seselelly ordered for the isrviee„ Captain Seeithett steeled their Royal Highness@ acmes the Channel, end they were received at Dover ender a saints from lies heights by the Adniirsity sperintendent, Com. mender M'llwaine..a a guard of honour furnished by the 25th Regiment, commanded by Colonel Limos., arcompe nied by the scalknt hand of the regiment. After dinner se the Ship, at which Captain Siuqhett had the honour to be invited, the royal duke and his military attendants proceeded to London. Their Royal Ilighneses the Duchees of Cam bridge seed the Princes Mary and suits remained at Dover on Thareday night, and arrived in London yesterdey after nes. The Conemsder-hrelad and his aides•de-camp bas Sins a Ale se the begerial camp st Chalons, sot hare Mrs the glee* of thi Imposer, under canvas, to the Geld. Ifie }hems Towson Packs, the eon of the Vicr - ray et Egypt, atemspealed by Sir Mom. and Lady Monte- Sem embed ea Weterelay et the Royal Ship lintel, Dover, end w Thweisy wherein hi. II igkeess newton Puha ems memelmied ►y Obi Mame Mantefinnt to the packet, when V embarked fee Framee, ew mite for Egypt. The will at the late Duke of Marlborough has bra swam maw 3011,0001 perecnoslty.. Lord and Lai Landesborough, family, and the lies. W. J. Drains, M.P., have arrived from Grimaces Park, at thou marbe Ni 1..., Leadcaborough Lodge. Scar. beresgh, he the mama Birßobert Peel, M.P., and Lady Emily Peel have rate-nad to Marna Manor, when they are entertaining a numerous circle of Mark Lady Raglan gave firth to a sct, her first eb;lcl, the 11th lust. nun k thareCoe, ewou chows of ibis soy bideehlltoe beim isidetaint4. Vienna aad Visaisatees Sydney bare arrived at Freyall Lana i Fogieeray, Kan, from the Coalinga. Lord John Russell paid • short visit to Lord Brougham, at Brongiont Flal4 on hts may from Scotland to Sheerel. Mr. John Bright, M.P., ia staying at Jlandoden: is North Wake. TY North Wales Chrome!, soya tlis boa , grader apposes Or Is greedy faap►ld In health mina visit Last arra DEATH or OPIRRAL Btx JOHN 1/OrEToN. A Mier from Vichy of the 244 says oW Aloha- Oohed ladles officer, Gement Sir I.A. lloreast, K wel 74, of the Malmo army, formerly d4-de-camp to the Mamma Wellesley, died hem yesterday. He mas at the Was( of Serierapstsm, and served aftermads rah diettee atm se • cavalry oaks". Ha resale■ rill he mkt. hem* aesmerom sight te he hatted la the cemetery of Pare la ' Chaise et Atria" barbarism would rice to life in a thousand points of the globe and destroy commerce forloenturlas to come." The libutorial de Lille states that the railway from that town to Strasburg has been conceded, and that it is to be constructed by tho threecoes panics of the Northern, the Ardennes, and the Strasburg. The Northern is to execute the part /rem Bumigny to Hera =; the Ardennes, that from Hereon to Thionville"; and lastly, the Stras burg, that from Thionville to the end. PIEDMONT. Sir limes Hudson, British minister to the wart of Turin, gave a grand farewell banquet on the 22nd to the Duo de Gramasont, late French ambassador to that court, and now promoted to the Embassy of Rome. Among the guests were meet of the mem bers of the diplomatic body, and Count do Sal moor, Secretary-General of the Foreign Depart ment. The Piedmonts.* Gazette of the 23rd denies the assertion made by some journals that the Sardinian government bad promised the Neapolitan that twenty-seven refugees should be expelled from Pied mont. A letter from Turin announces the arrival in that city of three Russian officers, one of them a colonel of engineers, who have been sent to visit the fortified places of Piedmont ; and it adds that the !Sinister of War had ordered that every facility should be afforded them, and appointed an officer to accompany them. PERSIA AND TURKEY. Telegraphic despatches from Trieste and Mar seilles, with intelligence from Constantinople to the 19th, state that up to the 10th of August Herat had not been evacuated, and that Mr. Murray had re monstrated with the Persian government on the subject. _ _ _ Omer Pada has been nominated Governor general of Bagdad, with a salary of 20,0001. a year, the other persons thought of for the post being definitively set aside. He bag been directed to establish steamers on the Eu phrates and Tigris, and to protect the commerce of these rivers against the Arabs. The English have brought the materials necessary foe the telegraph of Euphrates. The Freese d'Orient affirms that the Arabs are determined to tear down the posts, through sympathy for the Indian insur gents. _ . . . . . . The financial pressure in Constantinople is severe. The Turkish army in Asia has received no pay for twenty months. AUSTRALIA. (ram ors OWN cosararoxnrwr.) SYDNEY, )uLT 18. Business in Sydney, which as for some time re mained in an inactive state, now exhibits tokens of improvement. The cargoes of assorted goods, wines, and spirits, recently received, have been sold at auc tion—the what mode—at good prices. Our colonial parliament has been summoned to meet, "for despatch of business," on the Ilth proximo. Among the earliest measures to be intro duced is a bill to enlarge the franchise, under the sanction of ministers. It is proposed to add forty members or more to the present number ; to distn , bute them on the basis of population, bat in prokror , tion to distance, on principles of real or nominal equality ; the nomination of candidates to be made in writing and published in the newspapers, thus avoiding the necessity of appearin g on the hustings and the voting to be by ballot. We have a Reform League here, who are busily agitating for universal suffrage but it is likely tho ministers will carry their bill. The new Cathedral of St. Andrew, which will be a very imposing edifice, in the pointed style, is fast advancing to completion. The choir is ready to receive the roof. The building will consist of nave, choir, aisles, transept, a lancet tower, and two western towers. In the course of the last month we had tho most extraordinary weather ever experienced in the colony within living remembranoo. A succession of heavy rains produced an overflow of the creeks in various directions, and the River Hunter was so swollen as to occasion serious disasters along its banks. The town of Maitland was nearly over flowed, and in the low lands in the vicinity the water covered the roofs of the houses. So rapid was the rise of the river that the lives of the inhabitants were endangered, and many had to be rescued by means of boats. Unfortunately, there was at the time a vast accumulation of goods at Maitland, stopped in the comae of transit to the interior by the continuance of bad weather, and the consequent almost impassable condition of the roads. A large amount of these stores, besides agricultural and other property, was destroyed by the flood. In order to compensate the resident sufferers, a public appeal to raise a fund by imbeerip don was resorted to, and was met in Syd ney by liberal donations ; but the goods stored at Maitland were almost wholly destroyed, not only causing immediate loss, but great inconvenience to the holders of stations and other settles who obtain their supplies from Sydney. They have yet to pay a very high price for carriage, the roads being still In a wretched state. I was informed by a merchant a few days ago that he had engaged drays to convey a quantity of goods 200 miles northward, at a cost of 401. per ton. What would be the charge per ton for the same distance by railway in England? The Governor-General has been on a tour of inspection since the Maitland disaster, and has expressed his determination to press upon . the legislature the ne cessity of an extensive repair of the roads. The produce of the gold fields both in this and the adjoining colony appears to be as abundant as ever, though lucky hits of large nuggets are less frequent. The receipt of gold by escort during the last quarter, as compared with the same quarter of 1836, was as follows : - . . Western corort. Buulbern. Northern. T. 161. 1996 17,009 ounces 6,364 23.20 1857 19,225 „ 6,799 6,296 31,280 Increase .. 2,316 1,449 6,256 9,017 The increase is about eight per cent. front the western gold fields, and 23 per cent. from the ;leathern. Bearing in mind the bad atato of the roads, this increase is encouraging. The escort from the north was not in existence in June last year ; so that one total receipts by escort this quarter arc nearly 50 per cent. above those for the quarter end ing June, 1836. Not only are the gold fields over-populated just now, but there is a redundancy of surplus labour in Sydney, Melbourne, and other principal towns ; or Whet, I should say, a superfluity of professional persons, who hare come out in the hope of finding profitable employ—music-masters, governesses, medi cal men, shopmen, clerks, and others, who might become good farmers and shepherds with a bn+h education, but at pm; nt are put to cad shifts for the means of existence. Mechanics of all trades are yet in request, X hose wages, though somewhat reduced from former rates, still range from 12s. to 184. per day. Intelligence has been received in Penrith of the eddy of Capt. Harrison, his lady, and family. He was in commend of the tad Nita= Cavalry, • division of the fiwallor Contingent, which mutinied almost to • man. The dangers, hair-breadth escapes, and privations, to which he and his family have been subject during a ten-days' and nights' wandering In a hostile country—utifed, unrested, scorched by day, and drenched by night, impeded in their flight by impemable rivers, harassed by swarms of kends, thirsting for victims, and intent on plunder—all this and more, which may be Imagined, bat cannot be described. All will rejoice to know that so gallant an officer is dill spared to drdend the henoar of the British arms, sad we (Carlis4 Pain;oo hops he will long be preserved to be • moist to his aged hair, Col. Harrison. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONI SHILLING DAT. Tamar, lime. 25. Admiesions on lament, 1,626; dills by miss Weft, 238 i total ; 1,564. TEE MEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review thinks that there is an inherent vitality in railway undertakings which nothing but the grarest mismanagement could have depressed to its pre sent feeble condition. Had a tenth part of the pta,seas end intelligence which are displayed in the newsy ma menial bueiness of the country been exhibited by the direc tors of railway companies, 'Embolden would bare Ind as much reason es the travelling public te oongratslate thsiiilvss on the malts of the bold speculation which so rapidly covered the country with its network of rails. The take which show the progress of traffic and the amount of dividend for the last ten years, prove beyond all question that, but for the flagrant attravegenoe practised by every band In the early days of the railway movement, a ten per oast. dividend, instead of being an unheard-of-thing, would have been the rule with the majority of companies. The mirage cost of the lino now in existence appears, by Captain Gallon's rr port, to have been about 35,00 W. per mile, while tho lines which have been opened since 1848 have been con structed at an expense of less than 10,0001. per mile. There is no reason to believe that the more recent lines have been freer from engineering difficulties than those which wart thought the most promising at the commenessuset of the mat experiment; and it seems to be a (sir inference, that about two-thirda of the capital mu* by the existing com panies have been recklessly equandered, and that the average rate of interest realised, including that upon loans sad pre ference shams se well aa upon ordinary stock, is not more than one-third of what it would have been if s reasonable thrift had taken the place of the wild prodigality is Ali which the money airlifting companies has been expended. The Press mays:—" The conservative party suffers Pen now from the strategy, or, to speak more exactly, the want of strategy, of the conservative leaders in 1830-1-2. Their mode of dealing with 'Catholic Emancipation' had placed them in difficulties on ' Reform' which they had not anticipated. The rapidity with which they struck their protestant Plows to O'ConseP end the Clare electors in 1825,while at the same time they pertinaciously misted sway moderate madam of reform, was the worst course that they could have adopted. Their own parliament did not follow them. They were deserted on Sir Henry Par nell's motion for Financial Reform. But if the tories were in difficulties about reform in 1830, it is very unuatiefactory to ma to know that the whip are in still greater difficulties about reform in 1858. There was • cer tain agreement and distinct understanding in 1832, to which the Whig ministry was a contracting party, which cannot be overlooked in 1858. Lord Palmerston knows all about it; so does Lord John Rummell; so do other still living members of Lord Grey's cabinet. On sno:hcr occasion we shall have to allude to that agreement, and wo shall take care that its Wading force be maintained fur the preservation of the 'Rights of Comervativae.' " Tho Economist points out that our statesmen in India have—what so rarely falls to the lot of Mates:nen— carte blanch—an unencumbered field. The Bengal army is gone—passed away into history, with all its defects, all Its obligations, all its claims. It might have been very difficult to reform it—it will be comparatively easy to re-construct it. The moment the principle on which its re-creatiou is to proceed has been determined on, the moment we have satisfied ourselves as to those errors is its former constitution which rendered possible its late crimes and dissolution—we are free to act as on tho first day of our Imperial existence; there are no ruins to interfere with the new edifice we choose to build, no catheter...sing legacies of the post to hamper or control our action. If we are not successful now—if we do not create a new army, perfect at all points, adequate to our necessities and specially adapted to our circumstances—we can plead no want of mauls, or experience, or golden opportunity, in extenuation of our failure. Never did tuberoses to work with more unfettered hands. There is yet another "jewel" of inestimable price to be found in this " venemous and ugly" visitation, if we have but the wisdom to extract it. It will surely compel ae—we shall be very senseless and very guilty if it do not compel ue—to study thoroughly end to determine distinctly and deliberately the principles on which our entire government of Ilindostan shall in future be con ducted, so that all our measures shall be consistent with each other and convergent to one point, and se that for once and In one quarter of the world British policy shall be spa tematic, uniform, and persistent. We can no longer without wilful fully act a little on one plan and a little on another; hesitate between two opposing theories, and end by borrow ing something from both, or trying timidly and imilitisintly each in tarn ; allow ono governor-gtmeral to upset or neu tralise the proceedings of a predecessor, his antipodes in opinion and temperament; in a word, leave one of the grand est empires ever entrusted to a nation at the mercy of that feeble vecillation which is the invariable mutt of half-know ledge and half•csnvictions. The Dispatch has the following:—" Amiens Plato, red 'ee.ms armies mita.. He beat loves England who will not suffer hie patriotism to ignore Lis sense of truth, and to lower the tone of public principle. It WOWS now to be universally admitted that we can trust only to British troops to govern India, and that we must totally disarm the native population. It is really believed that a territory of nearly 2,000 mike square, inhabited by myriads of estui-civilieed subjects, can be held in subjection by 50,000 or 100,000 Euro peans, in defiance of chronic disaffection, habitual fear, and the despairing disloyalty induced by imperious domination. !Ivey', we are =tired, are en geodes English troops Hied by English officers. It consists with our certain knowledge that Hunan and other Europe= officers are at this moment flocking to Hindoetan to command the revolted Sepoye. This uprising has betrayed to the Cur and the other autocrats of Europe the fatal secret that the people of India are prepared to receive an army of liberation with open arms; and let us blink the fact as we may, th►t will heneefierth be a perpetual source of weakness to us in the adjustment of European poli tic.. We have habitually speculated on the probability of a Russian invasion of India. Our ablest military authorities have considered it perfectly practicable. It is quite prac ticable. by co-operation with the native princes and indepen deetnative states, to draw thither unobserved all the neces sary muniments of an amy. There are seventy millions of }Redoes the subjects of independent native sovereigus all adjoining to, several rurrounded by our dominions. How can we prevent there States from orgenieing large etanding armies, officered and taught by Europeans, and filling arsenals with the necereary equipment for veer ? We are coolly told that these Stals must be annexed, by hook or by crook, en that England alone Mull reign in Modulen. Have we not enough on our bands already? The more we take, the more wo have to hold, to garrison, to overawe; if that be =policy, how is our population to stand the drain of troops, the drain of our exchequer? When lei the income-tax to end / How high will the poundage reeeb 1 " The Leader hes " Especially refrained, upon all occasions, from reckless invective against men wl✓b, like Lord • Canning, occupy responsible poeitions in time, of confusion and calamity, and whose duties have to be performed in the midst of sudden alarms and even actual dangers. Bite it is impamible to resist the conclusion that, as Governor.Genreal of Indio, Lord Canning stands convicted of in difference or incapacity. 'rho case against hint meta, not upon suspicion but upon absolute evidence. Overrating himself and underrating the (lingers of the country, what guarantee have we that Lord Carling is the wen to whom should be entrusted the conduct of that gigantic struggle by which, if by anything, the English an to regain the supremacy of India? The curse of the nation is that no guarantees required from men In responalble situations. We insist as little upon qualifications as upon guarantee*. General Amon was an ensign with the bag gage guard at Waterloo, and wo made him commander-In chief in India. Fume gathered by field-days in Hyde-park has been permitted to supersede great Indian reputations— °atrium and Lawrence are no competitors of Anson and Can ning. The favourites may break down, it is true ; but Bri tish nepotism is ingvnious. To satisfy the public (which is easily satisfied), a board of old Peninsular. will tit, and whitewash every one concerned. But we aro anticipating. We have not yet made head against the rebellion, and if the feeble government at Calcutta should bend to the blast, It may at length be thought necessary by the nation at home that personal vanity should give way to imperial interests, and that India should be saved, even at the risk of offence to Viscount Canning and Mr. Vernon Smith." The Illustrated Yews, on the other hand, re m aka that "opinions differ as to the length of time and the amount of maifice by which the final victory of Great Bri tain will be achieved; but there le no difference of opinion on the main fact, that we are fated to conquer, and that the Ices of India by this country would be a calamity to the world. The only exceptiona to the unanimity of feeling and opinion are peculiar. They all spring feint ono soiree —the hostility of the liltra-Hontene and l'ltra-Popish party. They are lot Influenced by reason. of state, but by reams of Wiese. A few raid Irishinen—and they may be cooratal by units, nut by hundreda—gloat over the die- trews a protestant England. Cardinal Winn= maxi• feats a lukewarm and jollities' sympathy with the country of which he claims to be a native, but not until he has beta roughly called to account for passages in his published ser mon which might warrant a different interpretation ; and the French Roman Catholic journals—which would restore Fromm, if it were in their power, to the darkness of the mid dle ages, when St. Lout, was the type alike of manhood, of royalty, and of christianity—.spew doubts as to our ulti mate triumph, and a very strong conviction that, If we— heretics as we are—should be the whiners, it will be a misfortune to Europe and the Church of Rome. One or two Orleanlet prints of Faris, who only bate England be cause the present Emperor established the Anglo-French alliance—a feat of statesmanship which Louis Philippe had neither the talent nor the huneety to scbieve--affect to be lieve that England must be beaten out of India ; but with these slight exceptions Europa and the world are with us. The fact is cheering, and will hot only have its weight in the councils of this great empire, but in the ranks of our armies. It is better to fight with the approbation of mankind than without it ; and that tha world approves of what we have done and are doing in India is clear to demonstration. Even the Russians know that we shall win. They may lament the fact, bat they lack the assurance to deny it. The United Service Gazette has the following t-- " Emphatically we say, then, let the idea of resuscitating the native may be altogether discarded. It has been an ex crements for the past eight years—it has been a curse and a scourge for the past six months. We aro con vinced that Englishmen can always be found in end& dent numbers to keep op a force of 80,000 bayonet. end sabres, provided that pains be taken to cherish the force by not needlemely exposing it to irksome duties under a powerful sun. A couple of hundred low cuts natives might be attached to every regiment, as the gun Lasses are to the Artillery, to perform all the fatigue work of the Corps, such as mounting guard in the heat of the day, escorting prisoners, atoms, and treasure, protecting baggage, keeping dam the barracks, the arms, and the accoutrements of the Europeans, pitching tents, &c. This wee their duty in the lest century—the conversion of them into regular soldiers was an idle COIIONSiOtt to their pride, which we have lived to repent, They ue only fit to do the work of alana—they are unworthy of a higher occupation:* THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. THE INQUEST. An inquest was held yesterday morning on tho bodies of the four persica killed, at the Newcastle Arms, To:ford, before Mr. W. Newton and a respectable jury. The jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view the bodice, which were laid on stretchers in the large room of the inn. That of the Hon. W. W. Clive presented no marks of violence except a superficial cot on the face. The heed of Miss Lttitia Paget was • shapeless mass. The had of Mrs. Heaton wee crushed almom entirely fiat. The body of Mn. Pitman exhibited no outward marks of injury, sad her face wore quite a placid expression. • - . - - - The jury neat proceeded to tweet the Kett of the accf dent, Mr. Leith, the superintendent of the Great Northern line, hav ing provided a special train for the purpose. The jury returned to the inquest-room at about ten o'clock. Mr. Leith watched the case for the cowpony. Mr. Graves, the resident engineer; Mr. Child, the company's surgeon ; and Mr. Williams, the superintendent of the pdim of the line, wen also present. The coroner having addressed the jury, proceeded to ex amine the witnesses in attendance. Mr. John Marr, of Morecambe, near Lancaster brother to Kn. Mary Heaton. and cousin to Mies Letitia Paget, Men third the bodies of thoso two ladies. He said—Mn. Heaton was • widow, 63 years of age, and resided at 18, Greensquere. Lancaster. Mis s Paget waa 43 or 44 years of age, and re sided at Forton-lodge, near Manchester. They bulb left As Lancsater rsilway station yesterday morning. Mr. Richard Booth, travelling auditor for the Great North. eru Railway Company, identified the body of Mae. Pitmen. She was the wit, of Mr. Pitman, the neelver of the com pany's mats. Richard 8001, groom of the Mambas to the mother of the Ron. W. Windsor-Windsor Clive, at Howell Hall, Bream grove, Worceetershire, identified the body of the unfortunate f'ngentlemen. He wee twenty years of age, and sta rt ed froanchester yesterday morning by the Great Northern time in perfect health. James Smith, of Bury, Lancashire, examined—l wee travelling by the Great Northern Railway yesterday from Manchester to Loudon. 1 woe the end compartment of . „ . . clock a first-rises carriage. We left Manchester at ten o a. m. r ' The train is timed for 9.5.5. We were not more than fire minutes Isle. The first stoppage we made was at Guide• bridge, where we pulled up for two or three mutates. The next stoppage was at Sheffield, and I remarked to a friend in the carriage how punctually we ran, having a Bra sliaio's Gunn in my 1..u.d. R c tea =maul, or a quarter of an hour at Sheffield. We went slowly round by the curve at }Catbird. The next stoppage was at the place of the accident. I think we went a little hater between Sheffield end the place of the accident than between Mon cheater and Sheffield. I did not consider it more than the usual speed for en express train. I have been accustomed to travel in express trains. When I left Manchester I wen in the tame carriage with Mr. Pitman and his lady. At Sheffield, my friend Mr. Raynor and opal left the hind compartment of the carriage and got into the front compartment of the same vehicle. A gentle man was in the carriage, whom I have since sisea hired wee the lion. Mr. Clive. I felt the accident all at 01100—.9 sudden as a gueehot. As far as I can tee member I did not feel any oscillation of the carriage be fore we ware doubled up as it were, and falling down the elope of the embankment. The effect was as if a person had put Ma foot into a bandbox and crushed it op. The only conversation I bad with Mr. Clive, was whether he was a smoker. Ile said he was, and we changed carriages to smoke with him. Mr. Clive was Fitting with his bock to the engine, and next to the window, which WY about half open. As soon as I gathered myself up, I found that I had no injury, but a great pats at the bottom of the back. My friend and myself shortly after found Mr. Clive laid on an embank ment below the railway. My friend gave him a little brandy. and-water, but he did not revive. I did not notic• that we were going at any additional speed at the time the accident occurred. I believe we were keeping correct time. After the accident, I went to the top of the bank end over the bridge, but I did nut observe any displacement of the metals, or anything to indicate the cause of the accident, except a disturbance of the halliard where the carriages had left the line. - Idr. Braithwaite Raynor, of Bury, Lancashire, corrobo rated the evidence of Mr. Smith. but he did not think they stopped more than tan or twelve minutes at Sheffield. It did not ream more than express speed. He felt a alight oscilla tion just before the accident, but they went over almost in stantaneously. He did not observe any jumping of the car riages previously, or anything to indicate an obstruction on the lino. lie went upon the line after tho accident, but could discover no clue to the accident, and woo quite at a lose to amount for it. When the first shock was over Mr. Smith and himself found themselves on their backs on the roof of the carriage, which was upside down. When they recovered from the shock they linked about for their friend (Mr. Clive), and found him on the slope of the bank quite unconrinius. The carriage wall smashed te Moms. Mr. and Mrs. Pitman were in the first compartment of the carriage; some Indies were in the middle compartment ; and Mr. Smith, Mr. Clive, and himself were in the last compartment. Robert Brooks, a platelayer in the employ of the Great Northern Company, examined—l was working ye-terday on Cm line mar the Wesson-Midge. I saw the Manchester express coming in eight, and naked me of the men what time it was. He looked at his watch, and said it visa two minutes to twelve. The train wee then about throe-quarter of a mile from where I um, and appeared to be travelling quite right. I saw the three hindmost carriages strike the corner of the bridge. They were the two last carriages and the break. All the camogra were off the line. The last three carrisges turned over the embankment on to the road. The engine and two front carriages went over the bridge, and about 30 )1124.1 un the other side the couplers of the carrisges !mike, and the vellieles fell ever the embankment. The engine and tender went along the line for about 400 yard', and thin they stopped. I could not ay whether the guard put on the break or not. After the train went off, both of the metals were thrown out of the gauge a few pude from the bridge. I gauged the test of the metals and found them perfect. After tee got the passengers out I went down the line to where the carriage. left tho rail*, but found nothing to amount for the accident. John Shaw, of Peterbonsigh, engine -driver, examined. — I am the driver of the No. 13 express train from Manches ter. I left Sheffield at 11.13. I Rog the time from my own watch and the clock at the station. I do not keep any memorandum of the time. I had an engine, four car riages, nod a break. I got to Retford station at a quarter to 12 o'clock. We are not timed there. At the time the ac cident happened it was two minutes to 12 o'clock. I looked at my watch. I was driving at the rote of 60 to 65 miles en hour. I judged this from the tiers we had bees coming. I did not notice anything wrong till I got or the bridge, when I felt a jerk at the engine. I reversed toy en gine, and on looking beck I cow two carriages next the tender going over the bank. We hail only one break to the train. We used to Lave two, but now we have an empty car riage next to the engind instead. There was a bell on my tender, but them was no couwiunication between the guar* and me. I have always had one before. This was the only time I have been without the communication. I d rters o metope, the mason it was omitted. It ix the duty of the po WV" on the communicating. From Retford to Tuxford we went at our regular speed. I did not put on any extra steam. We were working with a pressure of steam at 120. We owlet get an, ' g ri g it g o r r at . l .W o a ve r : gu th'n a declartitednalth.ennei"..reguginiehlaebeteZe:tea::l.4.4ed: Wen win to my own judgment. I eased the regulator on the Belford ride of the Tnxford stittion. 1 had a bout haf steam on , from Retford to work up the intline w hom T i uxford, and when approaching Tuxford 1 altered the regulator o ne bole, taking off the maim. 'flio regulator acts pr , perly, and 1 have no fault to find with it. The ago*