The Express. — London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

k r s. l; ILIr NMI g LONDON MORNING timM==l.7C:" demises ma si elm wil in_A la= im ow= id owoo l i a= is iiretVid= swam solila-Oga Mer I. ow WOWS W MAWS MID WWWWAL. Vorftwwis ....16=.1Adiestia• lois Ow. Is err se "Vl' 0 1.1 - Sral Wag WORT, "I MU W. MINIM W.TWOWSWIWWW. vw .. = d me is Is lie linews I a .4 1,11" I. pow. gokw up lIL WO IWAR I Va be =llll7=wis Bee expreoo. iZrebb ter •leesegeweill. suriere. ae. amegoiberssi. be 10 . Va.* um dirdraillolia. i IiaMILKIP MO SIAUTT ILOZClaltila eb es 11iC ref; bad be hignellem. eek litibee• Kleine Tee. -eye M CI • T TirellTior ia tu L o r tAt ur. :la La Wal lnistft ?nalOwn, 111,01111 tan - Ohrl.lmo HIGH VATI& AT LO1ID0111! almOL, Tms iiad-tik7 ;~ ac LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER ?9. Ws have very recently had a few pregnant Illustrations of the canine appetite he place by which our younger scions of noble families are at present affected. No appointment is too big for their swallow ; none so insignificant as to be deemed unworthy of their picking up. Within a few weeks we have had a Mu: GRATE pitchfoeked over the heads of abler and more experienced plebeians into the govern ment of Nova Scotia; a TOWNSHESD condescending to accept of a Stamp Distributenhip in Manchester ; and • Totixiiiritx stooping to pocket the emoluments of a County Courts Tressarership is the Metropolis. Hakes* Saturnia retina the good old times are coming back when Sir ROBERT W•LPOLE and his colleague. provided for their children by quartering them on the Govern ment offices. As soon as India ie handed over to the tat:Eve. Government, it will be invaded by horde. of the hungry descendants and dependents of the aristocracy. Parliament will interpose no Mr to their nomination. The members of the Lower House will continue to be elected as now, because they are advocates of the Ballot and extended suffrage, or supporters of the agricultural interest and the Church, or promoters of this railway or that line of ocean steamers, as upholders of the Vestry interest or the Poor Law Heard, as the case may be. No constituency will ask what they think about the affairs of India. And the consequence will be that our representative. will Indemnity themselves fee the independent votes they give on home politics, by their venal subserviency on all matters regarding India. Competitive exami nations will interpose so bar to nepotism and jobbery in Indian appointments. The Indian army is about to be handed over to the Horse-Guarde—the broad hint about the study of Hindostanee in s recent "order of the day," shows that. Now the purchase of Commissions is not yet abolished in the Qt. ZEN'S army, and the influential Mr. 8t.t.1-4, and the still more influential Times, are open-mouthed in their advocacy of its continuance. Again, an influential section of the Church and the Aristocracy are availing themselves of the deep interest felt by the Church in Indian Missions to raise a cry of awe Bishops for India. They indulge in the pleasing hallucination that India can be Christianised by the simple process of duvting snug Bishops, Prebends, and Rural Deans over it as Prom a flour-dredger. Ministers will be nothing loth to yield to inch a cry, as compliance with it will nsocesarily increase the patronage of the Crown. Then es to the Civil appointments; there is a wide field tee the irresponsible exercise of patronage in the " Unco -0 Tenanted Civil Service,"a branch which must Doan wily increase in numbers and emoluments from year to year. Here will be a splendid field for any Governor-General who has a taste for patronising; and those who are conversant with the history of British India can recollect at least one occaaioa whin a newly appointed Governor-General was so- .- - - companted by an agent appointed by the great vu's aediton to receive the portion of his salary set apart for there. The unconditional transfer of the e& ministration of India to the Miniaters of the Crown —the abolition of every check or control over them except the merely Petulant surveillance of Parlia ment—will inevitably lead to unlimited jobbing, to Increased expense and diminished efficacy in the government of India. That Lord P•IJIBIL440,1 is folly aware of this is evident from the pains he has taken to steal a march upon Parliament Lod the public with his India BiU. Though ha M Al t.. , TT intimated in the Iloyal Speech, at the opening of the Stolen, that Parliament was to be called upon to legislate for India, not the slightest indication of the details of the legislation contemplated bee been allowed by the Pater lilt to escape. He will leave Parliament end the public no time to form • deliberate opinion on the merits or demerits of hie 01.11111111. WnArtsca may be designed and done in regard to the fatting of soldiers' families. there can be no doubt se to the duty of helping them through the crisis now. Those Rho from bad health, or having their hands full of young chil dren, cannot earn, mast be fed and clothed in the readiest way that can be found ; but wherever it is possible to enable the women to earn, it i• supremely desirable that this should be done. to answer to the question, how ? several examples from the ma aufacturirg districts might be cited, where hun dreds of women suddenly thrown out of work would have no other choice but between the work house and wont, but for the intelligent and rational benevolence of their neighbours. One scheme in particular we have in view. For obvious reasons we shall not name the place, which has quite enough to do in warding off its own threatening pauperism. SufEce it that it is a manufacturing town, when women are largely employed, end where the fac tories have recently been stopped, as in other places. The Mena offered the free nee of • 'radon, public building, where several hundreds of women could be comfortably accommodated se seopetreiree. Ladies who have chosen on the Committee that they know what they have under taken. attend—a few each day. The women are divided into companies or classes, each of which is superintended by an overlooker, hired at Be. par week. The regulate cutters-out, bookkeeper, and general superintendent, are hired; and the work gas, cm in a banner-like way. The industrious earn as much as la. per week. The work is from nine till six, with an hour's interval far dinner at their own homes. As the mills closed, more and more were taken on ; and se the mills re-open, those who can will return to their ordinary employment. A very few weeks mare, it is hoped, will close the con cern, by the return of all the women to work. Mean while, they have passed their days in sufficient warmth, cleanliness, and comfort ; they have earned • maintenance, scanty, but sufficient for a few weeks ; and not a few have im proved themselves is needlework, to a degree which will be a great saving to them for life. There are pleasant incidents in the case—the singing of companies of the women over their work ; the occa sional readings offesed by ladies who have voice enough for a whole class, &c.; bat those circum stances are non-essential. The essential question is, what is the work that they do? Is it of a kind which the professional sempetreseas have a fair claim to? or does it not interfere with them ? It appears not to interfere, and no doubt the regular semp strews, who rarely earn Se. a week, would be admitted, if unemployed, and have their share. Linen, cotton, and flannel garments are mad*, and sheets and other house linen. Housekeepers give orders, and buy at the sale room; and it is • good opportunity for persons who have laid by a little money to supply themselves with good clothing, ready-made, at a very 'amenable cost. The plan is se weU received by tin unemployed women that many more apply than ma be received. As a temporary measure, devised te meet a special occasion, it seems to answer well, Waring nobody, and only requiring as much self sacrifice on any hand as amounts to • moderate spe cial charity. It would not do for a permanence, of coarse ; bat it would be a comfort to think of whole groups of soldiers' wives, and the six hundred Bel fat women who are on the parish, and the maims choly companies of unemployed women whe , me begging from door to dam in Carlisle, as thus housed, warmed, employed, kept out of danger and off the rates, till that improvement in the times mews which the most sagacious men of business em to expect the molt confidently. LYDIAN MUTINY RELIEF FUND. TO Int IDTTOII OF THU tiritims. Stn,—l shall feel obliged by your location of the fullowiag very iatentetiag letter, which I have just received haw Ape.. The public will at the was time be glad to leers that 10,0001., the exact SiSOINi et rettel requested by the Itepa baud, kid ter voted kr then by that committee teigell the fees el their applicatioa ; se that s kw days alter their kger wee d. etched the hake kr which they bed epplied met have bees et their dlepani.—l eat. &C., (slped) THOMAS Q. TIMM, Prwidwitt. 27, Ossairrstrest, /LC. TO TSB TRILSTDONT OF TES 7171 M :70a TIM UMW OW THR SUPTIMBIS IT TIM NOTUIT II INDIA, LONDON. FM Ages, Nan. 20, WM Sir,—Flaving been eppehdel by the enossinalnear et the Berth-Western Provinces weds he he sublertions whielt • have been or may be plated se the &peed of meet for the relief of ,ahem.by the lists matinCTe hag to nuke direct application to you kr • portion ate the fun& now being rand by the library of our coontrymin at home, and to request that, if It mesh with approval, • slim of money may be plain at ter dlepoest to rare r Is 'ellen the nuts of those whom circumstances cannot be es& eidered by the mill( emenuess at Calcutta end Bombay. It will readily near to you thd, dtuated as we are In the very centre of the dinette which have been the scenes of so much violence and suffering, the cells fur assistance an nu reerons and pressing. By the liberality of the mild com mittees at Kurrechee end Bombay, who hare sent us SOW. and UN. invectively, we hare len enabled to and sumo help to he most necemiton, but then sum. will only amide is to inns • very inn portion of the distress mound us. I. Agra it may be truly mid that the saran Christian po polities to sot only booming, but that the majority ant it be. not the mom emential ertiele of furniture or clothing. At present we are living in the cellan sod mules In the f but, is soon as tranquillity le entond, it will be aeourry foe ell exoept the pinion to move out of it; and we heir that, mime we OM menet la miming hada =Sakai to help thin who have litde or so mane of their own, • Imp number of people will be unable to got cover before the bat weather COMAIIOOI6. The einanistastose of the sunken at the other stations in these pronmes are is hod, sad Ia any &stains more deplorable thee of the meideate hen. In addition to those who en sugaring from the lose of ib.ie property, than is • number of widow. sad children, many of them entirely dentate, tor whom provirion will have to be made. We propose applying to the Calcutta Relief Committee kr 2,0001., and to the Bombay Committee for 6004, in addition to the remittance. they have already ant, end we now ask you to tenet us to the extent of 10,0001., end we hope thee with them sums we may be able to 'En materiel eneenee • to those in need of it. We take this opportunity of explain: our entire concise men In the rules Laid down by the India Distress Commit tee at the meethig of 26th September, and our full intentien of acting up to their spied se far ati it is ponble. With the emennence of the floasnal commissioner of the North-Women Provinces, ere beg, in couclusiun ' that any fume yes mai hi a plened to rural us may be Sureartled to Beak of In the B C.elentm, to be pieced to the credit of the guvernmeut Agra, end the neon cry skim to get the money op here will be tan by the governmen—We have the honour to be, die., (Signed), W. B. Loin, Ova Service, Joint Maestri.. of Arts. E. H. lissom:li, Curator to Gnomon, North. West Proviso.; K. MEADS, Cave's, leeks of Beipol Contingent;llnelix Anoxe W. IIoTTYIwo, Agent Agra Beak Corporeal*. A lett(r from Vienna of the 24th [dates that Lord Strait ird de Redcliffe had paid a visit to the Minister. of Foreign Affairs, sad afterwards had a toag coarerutioa with the Turkish stabareador. Mr H. Seymour, the Eng lish mobsesedor, wee that day to aim a mud dinner is his bosom, and the day after Lord Stratford wits to dine with the Minister of Forelffn Affairs. Hi. excellency wss nut to leave Timm Instil the 2Sth. la an article treating of Lord Stratford de Red cline's detention from Comateatieeple, the Albite of t.-41., says it may be .8180 mewled that is harts, the Lid opts to the representative of Preece, Ihee leedalair's departtuto "moat naturally have the *Sect of facilitating sad favouring to a certain extent lb. pewees end the success of French policy at Conaleatinople." The Dedam adds that • reconci liation is about to take place between It. Thouvmeel and Iteerbid Podia, and that • !similar rvprerhentettt may be sapectied to take place between ht. Thouvenel and the Mu stiest Ambassador. The Casette de Vienne publishes in its official colonise • Mier from the Emperor to the Minister of the Tato rice. dated the 20th, reLit ire to certain important improvesenta in the capisl. It will be remembered thst the inner city Vienna to ...panted hem Its epleiedid suburb. by walla, fortifiroine• end a dry moat The imperial reecript pro vids dint three immense ground. alien be used (Of errs etwete sad audier.. 4 large bruilevard, bordered by beau tiful edifices and gardem, will form • Mad otenelorare rimed the inner city, the communication. la and with which will be mutably sherd sad arranged. Spews will be raeeved f setae military sad public edifices, the building expose's of which me to he defrayed by the sale of the lead. A grand plan of these imparestements is offered for Earopens com p e tition, and prize. of 2.0(0, 1,000, and 600 p. 1,1 ducats will be &ea for the beet. The rescrlpt ha. given greet setioloctioa to the ishobitants. The ClailLiatlr is dimmed 1 to commence tie smsmary maps immediately. Letters from Alexandria stab, that the brother of the Sultan lloacceis, the chief sovereign*: Dorton", wee .beat to visit Treace, Eagisad, and the ether principal mace of Europe. Dorfour is • state of Central Africa, sear Nubia and Kurdefea, inheNted by &black Mehometen papa. knot. It terns on a oanoiderchle trade by means of can na& As English agent lately Tinted Cobb:. the capital of the estuary, whoa he was very well received by the Sultan, who rapeseed a desire to enter Into comeaci,iel relations with Europe. The Nor/ states that General Lamoriciere is dia. porta( of his how* it Aram* korrybeg t o m orn to Frs... with his Emily lAtor. lb. commeacsalent of Lb. mow 7t. Elie Court. - WINDSOR, MONDLTAI The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the groan& of the Coe& tide noosing, and eilerwarda rode in the Riding House, attended by the Hoe. Lue Kerr. The Prince C.,neort went ont shooting, accompanied by the Pram of Leiolueen. . _ Mr, Atkinson had the honour of presenting to the Queen and Prince Consort copier' of his watt upon Siberia. Prince Alfred, attended by Lieut. Cowell, R.E., returned to Alrerbank in the forenoon. The Princess Alice took a carrier drive. Despatches were received at the Colonial-olllca yesterday frame the Governor of Malta sad the Lord High Commie skew of the laden Wanda DEATH or TILE EARL SPENCER, E.G. We aresorry to have to announce the madden death of the Lad Specorr, who died on Sunday, • few galenhes after 12 p.m., at Althorp Han, the family seat in Northam tonehire. The earl was, up to a few hours Wore his death, to all appearance in his usual robust health, and ma Saturday was out shooting for several hours with a party of Mends partaking of the hospitalities at the hall. The mantas end family chyle at Althorp have hem plunged into the deeper, grief by their unreported and melancholy bereavement. The deceased Frederick Spencer, Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorp, county Northampton; 'figment end Baron Spence' , of Althorp, county Northampton, was fourth son of George John, mend earl, by his marriage with Lady Lavinia Bing ham, eldest daughter of Chaise, Mat Earl of Lima. He was bone the 14th of April, 1798, and oonsequantly woe la his 60th year. The late earl ma twice married; SEM, February 23, 1830, to 1.. ligabeth Georgian, mixed daughter olds* late Mr. William Stephan Payne; of Coudray-yea, Some; by whom, who died in 1861, the deemed peer bee surviring Viscount Althorp, M.P., end Lady Sarah; and be married secondly, in 1864, Mae Adelaide Seymour.** daughter of the late Sir HOMO Sessobeemy Seymour, H.C.11., by Ms diet marriege with Matilda, daughter of the late Ste Lemma Pat, BM. By the War marriage the earl leaves tee atildren„ the last, a son, having bess born at Spencer Home Si. Jamas, early fe the peat month. The late end wee been at the Adadrulty, Whitehall, his father having far many yeses preelded over that depertmest of the government, mad was the great hieed of Lord Nelson. He adopted the nary egi ode prefession, uttering that mentos a few maths tete. hs attained his fourteenth year. As midshipmen on board the Matta, 84, he was employed maw atonally with the in-abere gastrin of Touloa, and also in co-operating with the &Mei sassy on the coast of Spain, more particularly at the siege of Tarragona, and the evacuation of the don MIL Philippe, in the Col de Balmer. in July, 1818, be ma made a lieutenant ; In 1821, be lea mired the commend of Me Aleartty, 10 ; and in Aunt* ob tained his pan rank. In Ileptiaber, 1825, he ma eppcdated to the command of the Talbot, U. While in that ship be served to the Mediterranean ander the late Ashishal Sir Edward Codringtoa, sat greatly distinguished hissetif the tattle of Narartmo. Darla* the perked he had the eon ' mend of the Talbot he misted at the reduction of the Morse Castle, mad has ilrto, though scosalseery management of his duties gave the highest gabbed= le his superior be cam mod. For his maim at Navariao, See, he ma, in Nome , bar, 11127, nominated a Compaalon of the Order of the Bath, mad received the Cross of St. Louis of France, and made • Height of St. Anne of Rork Ostend clam), and of the Order of the Redeemer of Greece. Since be relinquished the the Talbot, In the autumn of 1828, hie lordahlp boo art boss Most,. His meal OXIMilaOll bore date as em mesa :—Lisslmart, July 14, 1818; commander, March 6, Itll ; cepiaa. Avg;rt 26,18i1; sad resr-adadrol (marred), OEM 7. 1662. _ _ _ .. - The Lel Spenoer was for • swim of yaws Ilswarry to het Boyd Ilighnoos the Duchene of Hest. Is July, 1848, he wee @notated Lord Chamberlain of the flosea's !towel:old, who be wee created a Privy Coueedller, which appointment beheld sp to 8ept.,18411, whis be woe eseanded by the Mar quise Dreatialbees. le Jesseary, 1664, he was appointed Lord flenereed of her lileleety's bouashold, se oaks he islersed es the Mb of lest sastL The Ishe per wee aiMed a Haight of the Garter le 1949 cre the &Mho/ the leis Le Talbot. The dimmed earl amended to the filly honours and estemsive leaded estate% on the demise of hie broths Mtn Charism sewed ad, the well known statesman, in 1845, He is recoeeded by ►he KS John Pmts., Viscount Althorp, 11. P., born Oct. 37, 1835. PMTied' to his acosesion to the peerage, the Iste awl sat la the House of Commons ier Worcestershire (1831). From the general demi= in 1832, Ito 1835, sad from 1837 to 1841, the Hon. Captain Spent ' represented Midhuset la parliament. Darla" his otter in the Lower House be invariably voted with the Whig party, el which political body, like hie predecessor In the peerage, he wee seoedatrt supporter. The peewit earl we returned to the Bonn of COMM4OII at the het gemeral election for the southern divisible of the toasty of Northampton, his lordship heeding the poll by a brigs mehetty. A vacancy consequently Willi In the repro matithiow of the county by this elevation of his lordship to the Hems of Lords. _ The owl bedonly reotatly returned to Althorn from • leagibesed towns the United Steam and Caner,. His Excellency Ferakh Blum, attended by Capt. Lynch and a nuenetuna suite, left Cleridgie Hotel yanerday inerning for the Eneton stake, and proceeded by the Ltd train to Bangor, for the purpose of inspecting the Bri tannia tubular-bridge. Hie Excellency le expected to ►etera to town this evening. Hie Excellency the Sardinian Minister is staying ea a skit with the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, at their seat in Dorsatehirs. The Hachette of Grafton ',Ed the Earl of En ton hey* reamed to town from 'gatefold Lodgo, Stacey Suit t:ed. Her grace and his lordship mill have Cl.rges•Weet teomoreew• for Easton Hall, Suffolk, to be mewl et the bowel of the lamented Lady Charles Fitzroy.. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury's party at Hatfield includes the Duke of Wallington, Viscount Chelsea, Lora Sandy', Lend sad Lady Rotaby, Lady Cowley, Hon. Frederick Cadogan, Major-Clewed Hall, 6ir F. Kelly, Hr. Ban, Hr. C. Parris, dic. The Counter' Craven and the Ladies Craven ar rived is town )esterday from Ashdown Park. Her lady , ship wfl dare Chaelse-aerset to-day on a tour of sighs. Tbn Earl and Countess Howe are passing the mason at Clopeall Hall, Leicestershire, surrounded by a family circle. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland are sur rounded by • select circle at Apthorpe, Northampton shire. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury are enter taining a Wirt circle •t Fir thine' Howe, Don't. The Earl of Morley has resigned the coloaeley of the South ninon Militia, which hie lordship has held Auto ISIS. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are at Broad lande, where thoy Woad to receive a InICCONIUD of 'Woes doting the holidays. Lord and Lady Ribbleadale arrived in town yes terday, from Ming tit. Earl sad Comsat's Howe, at Gap adl Hall. The mortal remains of the late Lady Charles Fitz roy will be removed from (arm, to-morrow treeing, for ht terformt, on Thursday morning. at the family mausoleum of Enema Rah. The lion. Mrs. George Anson and the 'Misses Anson come to town te•day, from visiting the Earl end Can. tem Hewn et Goyimll Heti. We regret to announce the demise, et St. Lee. nanfron•Ses. oa Chrtetmaa-day, of the Hon. Ansonia Maude, daughter of the late Viscount Ilawarden. Sus ladyelalp bad ugly attabaed her twinty.seventh year. Che }ton. W.Neesau Joeelytt - has joined the Earl of Roden at the Queen's Rotel, tipper Norwood. Sir Michael and Lady Brno hero arrived at Matutpliatel, treat a ooatinestal tour. Sir Benjaunn and Lady Hall are passing the seam at Llawsver, North Wales. Liest.-Oeneral Shubriet has arrived at Illaarigy's Raid bees lutdonr. Lord John Russell is amongst the •iritors enter tained at &wood by tha Marquis of Laxisdomme durum the Ciwistaias holidays. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice is spendiig Christmas aißreettlit Castle, the seat of Lord Pant; tur —s '. An Italian committee, of which IL. Tommaseo if president, arse some time since appointed at Turin, to memos Ma feed mimed by ettlecription for analog a monument to Daniel Mash'. TAB oaonnitt• Us added to Its ottatbera • Frisch committee. coneisting of MM. /key Schiffe, Heel Mattis, Mein, Neffme, Fax Xceseaa, Dumont, Jois t Biwa, Airital• de Is Forge, sad Plasm ds L Fa'.. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ENGLISH TROOPS IN EGYPT. Letters from Alexandria state that English troops IMO daily passing through Egypt. On Dec. 14 several detachments, brought by the Sultan and Nemesis, had arrived at Suez, under the command of Colonel Macmirdie. Of the total force of 1,100 men, only four were in hospital, and they were not se riously ill. These troops had had a very good voyage from Southampton. It was rumoured at Alexandria that the East India Company had made arrange ments to send 1,000 men par :month to India by way of Egypt. THE CALCUTTA MAIL. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AND NITTIIIN TILEORAPIL) ALEXANDRIA, Dig. 23. The Ajdaha bu brought in from Aden the Oalcutta mail and passengers. The Alma broke doll e n 600 miles from Aden. The dates are—Cal ontta, Nov. 26th ; Madras, 29th; Oalle, 2nd inst.; Hong Hong, Nov. 14. &render Bagh was occupied on the 16th, after a tremendous struggle, the enemy suffering severely, and fighting desperately. On the 19th the Commander-in-Chief and three a kis staff were wounded, the former only slightly. On the 20th Lncluzow was fully relieved, and the women and wounded were conveyed to the rear. Oar loss consists of five officers killed and 96 wounded. • The Clwalior contingent was still at Calpee, divided counsels being said to be the cause of their inaction. The Foreigners' Pasepcet Act has pared. It is reported that the King of Delhi's ion and his two nephews, after being tried by military com. saissioners, have been shot. The steamer Elereoneee had arrived at Madre. Leaky. General Askburnham was to leave China in the An, and an attack on Canton was contemplated shortly after the steamer's departure. The Calcutta import and expert markets were dull. Money market improving. Freights unaltered. Exchange, 2s. 1/d. to 21. ; Madras, 2s. lid. to 21d. Arrived at Calcutta, with troops from England, the John Bell, Caledonia, and Victoria. The Mary Maekertocoo, Captain Valentine, was wrecked on the west coast of Frasier° ; muter and crew saved. SITANGUA T.—The business done in imports well to a moderate extent. Exports doll. Freights un changed. Exchange 6s. 9d. The total settlements of bilk up to date, compared to same period last season, show a decrease of 16,000 bales. Homo KONG.—In opium little doing, nominal prices from 700 dole. to 730 dole. Exchange, as. told. to g. 11d. SiNoaroan, Nov. 21.—Imports are in active de mand, with considerable sales made to arrive. Exchange, 4s. M. to 4a. 10d. Fire broke out on board the steamer Sarah Sands on the 11th ultimo, which fortunately was soon put out, and she reached the Mauritius on the 23rd ; no lives were lost. Tnz Ocest.crn MAILS.—The Calcutta and China malls are expected to reach Loudon to-morrow, at If cm., or 4 p.m. Letters and newspapers for Cal cutta and Madras, and for any part of the Bengal es Madras presidencies, intended to be forwarded - by the mail of the tad January, should be addressed ViJ Mantillas and Bombay." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1/40X 0173 OWN 00WIFOXDI7T.) PARIS. MONDAY Emirate. I observe in the foreign news of the Monileur an extract from the Bouru Gazette of sienna in the following terns: " Vim; Deo. 22. " Our intertmacio at Constantinople has received orders, as is already known, to give the most cor dial support to M. de Lampe on the subject of the Suez canal." --.- --.. This citation in the official journal of a piece of I news so contrary to the tenour of all the latest ' advice" relative to the disposition of the Austrian government in regard to this question is certainly important. At the same time it would be unsafe to place implicit reliance upon this symptom as an indication of what is really going to be done. It may be remembered that some few days since the German Journal of haiskfort and the Ost.:Thatsels Post, organs of much greater authority than the newest Gazette, stated that instructions of a very opposite tendency bad been given to the Austrian intornuncio, and the French semi-official journals, while faintly affecting to doubt whether these journals, " usually so well informed," were so on this occasion, evidently at tached great importance to their statements and lamented that Austria should have yielded to English influence. Now it is quite con sistent with the habits of the Mo•ittwr to quote even from the worst possible authority any scrap of iotelligenco or argument, tending to support apolicy not officially abandoned by the French government, although it may know all the time that there is not • weed el truth in the statement which many people will believe from the mere fact of its appearing in an official print. At the same time it is worthy of remark that a Paris correspondence in the number of the Indspendanes of Brussels received here to-day, states that the &man for piercing the Isthmus has actually been signed by the Sultan, with the consent of England. The editor, however, doubts the information of his correspondent, and leans to the belief that Turkey will not consent to the piercing of the Isthmus unless England gives up the , Isle of Perim. This is a curious introversion of the state of the case as hitherto known. We have beard, indeed, that Turkey is making efforts to obtain the evacuation of Perim, and that she is even supported by Russia, but to say that the evacuation is insisted upon as a condition precedent to the piercing I of the Isthmus is to represent that England is in favour of that undertaking which, ',though (as the French papers rightly say) it would benefit her more than any other power, she is understood to have hitherto opposed. Is it possible that there can have been within the last two or three days a sudden diplomatic convulsion, and that Austria, find ing that England will not, upon reflection, counte nance her designs to obtain undue advantages for, herself on the Danube, has turned round and joined France upon the question of the Isthmal ? I am told that the Congress of Paris will meet to , morrow, to enchange ratifications of the treaty set ding the Bessarabian frontier. The Tribunal of Commerce has given judgment to-day in a law suit which has been some time pending between the proprietors and managers of the Press*. The decision of the court is complex, and in its details quite devoid of interest to English readers. It holds that all parties are a good deal in the wrong, and therefore will give little satisfac tion to any of them. M. Millaud, who bought the greater part of the shares in the journal from M. E. de Girardin for an immense sum of money, is ac knowledged to have a right to exercise the functions of editor ; but his pretensions to get rid of M• Rouy, the manager, are overruled. The only really important part of the judgment is that which rejects in tole the ridiculous demand made by M. Millaud for 200,000 fr. damages against M. Rouy for having suffered the article of M. Peyrat, which led to the suspension of the Freese, to pass. The Bourse was very firm indeed at the opening, in consequence of a rise of I per cent. in Consols, bet the market became almost heavy at the close with out any assigned reason. The Rente left off for account at 67fr. 95e., with a rise of 10c., and at yesterday's prior, 67fr. 80c., for cash. Mobilier rose 10fr. Railways were from 2fr. 50e. to sfr. higher. The convention between the Bank of France and the railway companies, relative to advances. on bonds, has become definitive by the approbation of the council of the bank. Some modifications of de- ----- tail were introduced by this latter body, and at once accepted by the companies. The Foi Breionne, legitimist provincial journal, is to be prosecuted for " false news," and its Paris correspondent is included in the indictment. ITALY. THE EARTHQUAKE LN THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES. (110 K OUR ORA 001 NAPLES, Dec. 21. My bat letter bad not left Naples more than a couple of hours when another shock, of some force, sent the population again flying into the streets. I was at dinner when that indefinable kind of feeling came over me which is usually produced by an earthquake, and the entire floor of the room seemed to swell up beneath my feet. Then came that horrid creaking of the timbers which I have heard before; but I had become so far accustomed to these sensa tions that I finished my dinner before going out of my house. In the town the same kind of scenes were to be witnessed ea I have already described. Carriages were drawing up for the night, and people were bivouacking on the ground, whilst the images of the Madonna were very brilliantly illuminated. During the night another shock was felt. On Sun day morning, at 10 o'clock, we were alarmed by another; indeed, the ground appears to be in a per manent state of vibration, but as the centre of action is so far distant, I believe little fear is to be enter tained for Naples. In the provinces, however, the diauters have been most awful, and even the mations reporter of them in the official journal says, " My . pen falls horrorstruck from my - band." I b riefly give the reports which were pub lished on Saturday evening. At Bari no farther injury was done than to the barracks of the gen darmes. The population, overwhelmed with fear, spent the night in the open . air. In Iticigliano ten houses had fallen ; five or six persons had been dug out—two had been killed. In another place a man and a child had their legs broken. The houses tipd churches in many other communes were split Mb top to bottom, and the cupola of St. Oregano fell in. The second shock was everywhere most fearful. Despatches from Potent& my that the shocks still continued there • and on the first night at Salerno they were perpet ual. On Saturday morning at six and ten, a.m., two other shocks had been felt. Later information tells us that in Potenze, a city of 15,000 souls, there is not a house which can be entered; and those who had escaped were living in tempo- rary barracks. The Palace of the Intendenza, the courts of juste e, the military and civil hospital, the barracks of the gendarmerie and of the corps de reserve, the College of the Jesuits, the churches, and especially the cathedral, were all perfectly useless. On the 17th the efforts were con tinued for disinterring the numerous victims of the disaster, the real number of whom was unknown. Most afflicting, too, are the reports from other por tions of the Basilicata—Tito, Marsioonuovo, La marziana, and Brienza, "are almost entirely de stroyed." Tito, close to Potence, u a beautiful town ship, with from 8,000 to 10,000 inhabitants. In Viggiano the damage is " immense ;" as also in Cal vello, Anzi, and Abriola, and "more than immense the terror and the desolation of the inhabitants." Be fore I close my letter I shall have fresh reports pro bably to send to you. From the capital have been sent by a steamer, medicine, beds, nurses, and what ever elm might bo necessary for tho relief of the sufferers; and wood for the construction of barracks. Four " Pearl Oepedalieri” had left with some of those articles, and engineers had been sent to the Principato Citeriore and the Basilicata. Occasion is taken in the midst of all this public lamentation to sing the praises of "religiose nostro Monaca," and of has "august" and " adorable " ma esty ; "of whom it is di ffi cult to say whether be is a more generous King or tender father." One or two of the prefects of the provinces are said to have arrived in Naples to state that the orders of the government cannot be executed for the relief of the people, as there were no assets in the communal treasures, which are exhausted by the many demands made upon them. When so gigantic au army has to be supported, the central govern ment mast needs suck every source dry. Whilst waiting for further reports of the damage occasioned by the earthquake, I may advert to the cue of the Puglia Railway. General Sabbstelli went down through the course of the line a month or so since, armed with the royal authority to compel the pay ment of arrears on the shares, and the purchase of others. At Avellino, I bear, 11,000 ducats were paid up, and considerable sales made in many of the communes. On arriving at Bari, the royal commis sioner was well received by the Intendente, with whom he and his friend dined ; hut, says ray in formant, during dinner another rescript was re ceived by the Intendente in opposition to the first, and thus the new subscribers to shares remain in an uncertain and puzzled state as to what is to be done. I repeat, again and again, that the projected line would be a mine of wealth for the country, but some sinister influence seems always to hang over what would really tend to the benefit of the Two Sicilies. ...... A few days since Mr. Fagan, formerly and for many years attached to the British legation at Naples, left this place, en route for his newly appointed post at Buenos Ayres. Would not thu gentleman he a fitting person to urge the claims of the British subjects in Monte Video on the attention of the governmentof BuenosAyrea? The idea is sug gested by the fact of Mr. Fagan's great success in another similar mission at Messina in 1850. His demand was reduced by the Neapolitan government only one-fifth,whilst that of the French was reduced fully four-fifths. The result was that he received letters of thanks from the British merchants at Messina, and very complimentary letters from the Sicilian commission. Mr. Pepsi would therefore be the right man in the right place in completing such an arrangement. DEC. 22. I return to the disastrous subject of the earth quake, of which the official journal late last night published the following distressing details. The extreme violence of the earthquake appears to have been confined to the provinces of Basilicata and of Principato Citeriore. This was the centre from which the shocks extended in radii all around the neighbourhood, and, amongst other places, to Naples, the very foundations of which were shaken. The reports up to the 18th were that in Potenza 19 bodies had already been disinterred, and the sad labour was continuing. Three hundred bodies had been disinterred in Pella. The corporal of gendarmerie had been dug out alive, so had been the judge of Saponara; Minis wife and two children were under the ruins, and he was crushed and maimed. In Lagonegro three shocks had been felt in the spruce of seven hours. Almost all the build ings, public as well as private, were cracked, and I three, amongst which were the Church of the Ca puchins and tle electric station, were falling. The shocks were continuing up to yesterday, but were lighter; the whole of the population were encamped in wooden barracks thrown hastily up in a large open plain, where they had escaped on the first night. In the commune of Carbone 21 persons had been killed and 19 wounded. C,asteleano was ne e d levelled with the ground, and 400 pe eeee , perished. The same misfortune befit s ee 7„ where 30 persons had perished. Mantes, Ft "; destroyed, deplores the death of one person. other communes of Lagonegro, where th e k it generally have suffered, and, above all, the &we e are, Marital, Laurie, Castelluccio Itotonds, nello, Sant' Areangelo, Calyces, Sani Martino, Ci ty nuovo, and Senile. No information of the number of the dead is the places has been received, and the general, and I fa ; too well founded, impression is, that many sands have perished. Indeed, I have heard dead, wounded, and missing calculated at AA and I think it not at all improbable. In the en ; ral localities so severely . sainted, committees been formed of the principal persons to relieve t e sufferings which they could not prevent. y ea Naples conveyan ces are continually leering • •and • • clothes, beds, medicines, provisions of re ! kind. _ _ . --- To-day, 42 military and 64 marine engineene leave for Potensa and Salerno, taking with W I wood for barracks and canvas for tents, for five most be many thousands who have not a root their heads. On the night of the 12th ix* cargoes of grain were sent off, besides q•• of everything that was needed for sickness, or sustenance of the sufferers, followed by nurses, pone, priests, and sisters of charity. Ido not lieve that one•tenth part of the disaster hu been narrated, for the full extent of it is sot kali and the government fears to excite the people much. In these painful circumstances it is only • to say that the authorities have acted with promptitude in relieving distress and eheckin attempts at disorder. Such attempts have made in Naples, both on Wednesday and Sat. night, but the gendarmerie have suppressed It is a part of the history of this tad tale, that on Saturday all were " playing on the sarthq in the lottery, on the following day it was that the blood of St. Januarius was boiling, sai procession was got up immediately. Shocks felt in Naples even up to yesterday, but a change the weather has given another direction to 4 thoughts of the people, and they are more trance, Still, when science is at a loss to explain the laic; which these awful phenomena are directed, and action of the air therefrom appears to be germ' by caprice, we are always in painful doubt as to" future. Five per Cents., 1141; exchange on London, k PIEDMONT. (mow coos OW TURIN, Dre. X The statement I lately ventured to make to FA about the reduction of the Austrian army has he fully ooufirmed by the reports of the German papa themselves. The German Journal of Iraai, asserts that next year's conscription in Austria si not fall short by a single man of the number rie last year. And with regard to Lombardy and Vete the official journals there, i n publishing the del rregulations for the annui: l levy, not only indicates reduction, but declare that the government will no rigorously enforce the law, and the contingent, r: is termed, will be rather greater than tis which has been usual for some years past. lb Military Gazette of Vienna, however, exya minutely of what the aforesaid reduction h t consist; repeating just what I stated to y oath the army is to be replaced on a peso establisher: and that many temporary leaves of abeam ars en granted. Here, with us, the new chamber slowly gets e with the work of verifying the electoral tetanal say it gets on slowly, beanie the contested elects are very numerous, and in the case of each dd.' the spirit by which the two great parties in ; Chambers are animated, is more or less appealed: the debates, therefore, are animated and le but the votes have all proved in favour the liberals. Notwithstanding this, it n be said that all these discussions hide have been no more than ^ light skirted and reconnoitring affairs; the first serious will certainly take place next Tuesday, on day a report is to be presented by certain de. • upon elections in which the intrigues of the p • faction were carried on to a scandalous extent. With regard to foreign affairs, our governm still much occupied with the affair of the Cog • and now sees the necessity of assuming a resolute attitude, since it is convinced that the mission of Prizes at Naples ham not acted is case, of its own mere motion ; and it is very d . ful, therefore, whether the judgment on the a. will be in accordance with the decision already nounced. Count Cavour, having instituted time ago a Commission formed of respectable j and politicians, to whom matters of international should be referred, has lost no time in submit the ease of the Cagliari to their examination. soon as he shall have obtained their opinion epee I think he will not delay one moment in &tenni by what measures to resist the violence of the of Naples. I learn from a good quarter, and have no b tion in telling you, that King Victor Emmanuel with his own hand, and out of his own head, era a letter to Pius IX. I believe I may also state the terms in which it is expressed are as boa • and reverent as the spirit and purpose of the le are resolute and firm. Tho King comp; to his Holiness of the conduct which been almost generally displayed by the Piedmoc cloy—conduct full of party spirit, passion, intngne. Victor Emmanuel hopes, therefore, • the Pope, being informed of these thine, will hesitate to intervene with hie authority to the clergy to perceive the error of their ways return to the modesty, simlicity, and charity i 4 evangelical disposition. Otherwise he (the ): as chief of the state, and as the main guardian protector of the peace, liberties, and prooperin his people, will be obliged to provide arms doings by the menus which the mutilation s plies. This letter, you will observe, is of a peg character, and one which goes beyond the acme tional forms and modes of procedure; neveetbe s it is one which possesses an extreme importance 11 • cannot fail to produce some result. A THE FINANCIAL CRISIS LN POLAND• A letter from Warsaw, of the 21st, says:--"T great financial crisis which for six weeks his II railed iu the states of Northern Europe is nob: itself felt in a most disquieting manner at Wog, 1 and in the other commercial towns of Pels at . only have a great number of traders been Tog excessive speculations in native and foreign y ductions, but the recent failures at Dantric, haw. berg, and other ports of the Baltic, hare estr,erl asters in the corn, wool, and oleaginous feeds tro and those articles formed the principal tern: wealth of this kingdom. Free; time immemo our traders and the owners of estates who calm their own land are accustomed to consign moo corn and other productions of the soil to metal in the Baltic ports. Bills to a large amount consequently drawn on those merchants, and bankers of Warsaw have always discounted t! very readily ; but in consequence of the fc that have taken place, a great many of these! have been returned protested. Most of the le o for whom they were discounted are unable to n bone them, and numerous bankruptcies sre result." " Acoording to the last accounts from the CO Good Hope," stye the latrie," the Antrim frigate:C*o which to performing voyage tonna the vend I, left 7 .° Bay on the 18th Nov., for Singapore. Daring the ro' the Navas at the Cape, the members of the scientific aka oub wird mode several excursions in the neighbestfifi and collided a number of impletaat specimens csalP with the natural, naineralogicn4 and botanical histaf country." " Scarcely," says the Union, "has M. DuPl rumed his obi place [among the high dignitaries of II! when, behold I he is about to beontoo a pais is a 001 self. It is old that the Civil Tribunal of lbs faiti shortly be occupied with a case originating in tits Mate. Dupin. M. Lionville, Wormier of the ordsa i l cotes, is to plead for M. Dupin, and M. 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