The Express. — London, England, 1857-08-17 00:00:00

l i t,l e..x-- wounded, and Lieut. Chalmers, of the Panb Guides, slightly hart. The monsoon had brolcan at last, and ryes our troops refreshing mia. The Jamna nnmediatelyrose and carried away the bridge oilman at Bhangpol. This aceident 'ants off for the •^'"' _ t tDe maw- 'cation bet-weer th e cam p a t iad the of neerot and Agra. But Friona the rains Ye Itipertant consequences. They must put an effeete:U stop to the operations of mu tinous detachitcnts. and prevent any further increase to the rebels in the besieged city. The Hardily mutineers, who were unable to advance further than Gurmuktesu, had marched thither in hopes of pass ing the river by the bridge of boats. This fortunately was prevented by the destruction of the bridge a few days before by a party of dragoons from Meerut. The rains will have another result in Delhi itself, which being low on the banks of the Jumna, suffers at this time of the year from miasma. This will dis tress the sepoys in the place, already uncomfortable from our fire and from overcrowding. Her Majesty's Bth Foot has marched from Jul lnndur to Delhi, its presence being no longer re quired in its old quarters, where all mutineers either have been disarmed or have taken to flight. It has been found necessary to disarm the 10th Irregular , Horse, at Nowshera. Our forces still hold isolated places in the vicinity of Delhi. We have a small force, for instance, at Hatrass, of whose safety, up to the 23rd of June, we have certain information. One of our zemindars captured 60 or 80 mutineers in the neighbourhood of that place on the 23rd, deprived them of 700 rupees, which they each possessed, and after soundly beating them let them go. Numbers of mutineers seem to leave Delhi in the hope of saving the plunder they have gained ; and numbers of cavalry soldiers have been met on the read from the besieged city to Allevghur, retiring no doubt to their homes with booty. This speaks ill for the state of discipline amongst the rebels. The King of Delhi has found it necessary to ap point the Budder Ameen, or chief native distrait judge of the place, to be his prime minister. Other district judges have also accepted place under the new regime. This proves the insecurity of trusting the authority of our laws to native judges, as pro- posed by the new Black Act. We hear with regret that the brave lieutenant Willoughby, who blew up Delhi arsenal, and escaped wounded to Meerut, died there of the injuries he had sustained. Locknow and Cawnpore are still in the same si tuation of uncertainty as before. All was safe at Lucknow up to the 21st, and Cawnpore to the 19th ult. Brigadier-General Havelock, appointed to the supreme command of the flying column, composed of the Madras Fusiliers, her 'Majesty's 64th, 78th, sad Seth, reached Benares on the 28th of June. The 78th Highlander; had already done good service in the vicinity of Benue* and Allahabad, where severed executions bad taken place. A high caste Brahmin, found in one of the villages parading the place on an elephant, and exciting the people to nee, was ceptured,and immediately hoisted to a neighbouring tree. The Nemo& mutineers have not stirred, and still remeleed. according to the latest news, about flay man ban Nueseerabad, waiting to be joined by the imatingents of 6lchidpore, Maywar, n Indere, end Ulm The force at Nusseembed, uder the sammemi of Camel Lawrence (her Majesty's 83ed. Ist and lemlay, Cavalry, and 12th llember Native handep) r is under orders to march to Agee.' bat it is sapped that the numbers of this iftee amps an hwallhisat for the purpose, as Ajtasee eamet be ha umpenteted. dielbodsa at Baroda have rendered the 2= at a hem there necessary. The lat having hen detached some time back be Brach, their plan is to be taken by 400 men of the 7th Bombay Native Infantry, from Ahmedabad. and all the Europeans—l cannot at this leseeent name the regiment—and a company of the 9th Boer bay Native Infantry, from Surat. The 4th troop of Horse Artillery, and the 34 company, 2nd battalion of Foot Artillery, from Buss, have reached Bombay. The season here has been so different from those of former years that fears are entertained lest a drought and consequent famine may follow. The iseesion, instead of I teldiott 40 or 60 iodloo of 'lb , as it usually duos, up to this date has given but 20, and as mast parts of India depend for existence as the monsoon its failure would entail en endless amount of misery. The prevalent fair weather— altogether exceptional at this time—has very me favoured the movements of our troops. Another question which engages musk atlantic. at this moment is the revenue. The anhareal plunder of treasure and the surelian of operatioas in several collectorates is one oldie swim mischiefs of the rebellion. Thera is an idea that an income tax is about to be impend, and nothing would be fairer. Land alone isemerously taxed, and the rich traders and beakers threughout India who feed on the peasants are imperatively untouched. A Mime Oar nada. Ala nem contribute to the re deemed veal be juat, and would pabably yI ea beerbst supply. THE ACCIDENT 21) THE ATLANTIC TILE- GJLAPH CABLE. Mr. Cyrus FA strived is Irwin is deturdry, sad . rode the follivoks said roped to idostodieelen: " Her liojoara dip I.=, ~ ...is joreen t t , antral et Pietentedi a the Meade toils me .r iot=a /PBZ Wea bolar• tour disk as fo.ky manure, der Wog the mid or nressordly 336 market Ale amble, sod the led NM Mies et It la water over two As ia demi, sad the grader part et die et • tete of rather mato this lien 1380.11 IR km. At the dm the snidest ectonsd tiro was a Imony moil is. The Niers me mew it dr rate of bur Mob es bows, art as the *Maw MEd the orb wee embark out Is re pest powers te the timed of tho slip, Its android li losossory to direct the nests to he maid man theft and vainessidy dr As parted et sem distaste Seta ter it.. it the dip. TM Agersomes, Niers% sod brims re to err& a shoot thew when dr As portod, to try seno espetressts as Ur depth of water of AM yen or the Atinels et kftle Wary which it L oarddisted A lee it pod areatepe to to. emmaty, sal this di die work mea to Parreer. TM Cyerpe wee mat brit Mir deputes he Tsio= i sd she vat list to }aria ia the Mgr/ Timessii• ti do mild set di A alms* the asegisita We pest whop lolls. Mr • shed Nor des mod T arrbe impedmat ha bra to emir* di art teak mat la sit die man preedes- Mk et dr ariMmidep Ifw, with alight shorodea is Li arrit reshirop, den uppers to be so groat Win Is.. 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Yenta. , meg be at the 011ee. le. leavirleatreet, by Two Me di m a im hey el pulsate& Till OAKS OF SrIInULATION. Kr. aorta ;b TORTY.—A CURIOUS CASE Kr C. Nacharnk SPJILID Cllll.O. MN Asa rani QUIIII. PILINCEitffs. Two LITINO TOO VAST. —La4 TEMP VT. O. Iwo. —Dom ai bffillyeste. a:= l -t , bt €ourt. OSBORNE, Acucar 15. Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore had the honour of an audience of the Queen yesterday, and presented the eta of his highness the Pacha of Egypt to her Majesty. The Queen of the Naherlaarrlved at Osborne at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, having disembarked at Oshome• 5., where the Prince Cowart was waiting to accompany her 3sty to the house. he Queen received as Queen of the Netherlands et the entrance with the royal children, attended by the wkr and gentlemen in Waiting. Soon after floe o'clock the royal party drove out in an open carriage and four. The dinner in the evening included the Queen of the NethsrLeds, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Letningen, Mademoleelie Pabst, Madentoiselle Heldewier, Oho Comte de Randwick, Baron Tindal, Baron Wakerlin (in waiting on the Queen of the Netherlands), Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, Lieutenant-Cionend Sir W. Codrington, who arrived yesterday on a visit. The lm. Mary Bultell has swaseded the Hon. Beatrbe Byng as maid of honour in waiting. The Queen of the Netherlands left Osborne yesterday. flee Majesty and the Prince Commit accomperial the Queen of the Netherlands to Osborne Pier, and embarked in the royal Wage with her Majesty. On arriving alongside the here yacht Fairy, the Queen Prince took leave of her Majesty, and the Fairy pro ceeded to Southampton. Major-Oeenral Bouvet* Equerry to the Queen, attended tho Queen of the Nethorlands to Southampton. ArOUST 16. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Paltnerbton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Ilarrowhy, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmare, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right lion. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. Viscount and Viwomnteas Palmerston left town on Satur day afternoon for Brockett 11111. Despatches were moot on Saturday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the West India Island.. The Queen of the Netherlands will take her departure from England to-day, embarking in the Nether lands Meant man of-war frigate Cyclops, now lying off Woolwich, at three o'clock in the afternoon. The Cyclops will convey the Queen to Ifelvoetaluya, where tho royal yacht will bo in attendance to embark her Majesty and the royal party for lbatentam. Ilie Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madams Mumma and family have left town for St. Leonardo on-Sea. The Marquis and Marchioness of Values& have left Claridge,. Hotel for Drama The Marquis Tangy de Merli has arrived at the Clarendon, from Paris. The Countess do Swieykowska and family and the alimuis du Nonlles have kit Cleridge's Hotel for the Isle of Wight Capt the lion. No Fiennea, 7th Hussars, son of Lord gape and Sele, embarked in the Candle, on Friday he for Calcutta. Colonel Sir William Davison, who is lately returned from oleo d, ham left London for Swarland Park, Northam • berland, for the ohonting sewn. . . . . Another Italian dramatic company is about to ap pear ►t the Italian Opera House, Paris. M. Caleado has tomtit Giuglinl as well so Mario for the neat season. Mine. Fremolini has started for New York. MM. Gooier mud Laboritta are also on their way to the States. Mmo. Gassier remains in England His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland Roes to Curraghmore to-morrow (Tueeday) as the good of the Marquis of - Waterford during the ;gtieultarl chow. Lori Carlials will also vend • few days with the Earl of The Bishop of London hes licensed the Rev. John Fitrgerald, M.A., late vicar of Borden, near Satinabourne, to the incumbency of the Csmden•town district, St. Tan TU. _ Colonel the lloo.l'erey Herbert, M.P. for Ludlow, will, it lo stated, command a Wasik in the may which has just been dispatched to India. The gallant colonel was deputy quartermaster-general of the division under Sir De Lacy Evans in the Crime, and was afterwards quarter muter-genera of the army in the Crimea. General Windham, the hero of the Man, and who is appointed to a high command in India, will embark on board the Indian mail pocket Colombo, which haves Southampton on Wednesday next. He will arrive in Calcutta in about six make from this time. The Hon. E. Bonarin, collector of cuitoms, died at Hate on the 9th inst., by which a situation of 5001. per annul falls to this gymnasia. (FXTRACT FROM A PIIIVATZ LITTER) PARIS, Avorsv 11. It is generally asserted and believed in well informed quarters here that, in case the government succeed in procuring the conviction during his ab sence for contumacy of M. Ledrullin, a de mand will at once be made to your cabinet, under the extradition treaty, for the apprehension and sur render of that individual. . . . No one doubts that a conviction will be readily oh. tamed, the intervention of a jury in such cases not being necessary. It is further stated that already communications on this subject of a private sort have passed between Count %ilea ski and Lord Cowley. The latter has, it is believed, admitted that such a conviction would bring M. Ledru Rollin within the pro%isions of the extradition treaty. It is added that M. Ledru Rollin either has already left, or intends to leave, Englund for the United States. BRITISH ARCHFOI.MICAL ResOCIATION.—The annual congress of the Britieh Archweiogical Association will commence at Norwich on Monday, Anglia 24, and will continue its sitting' and eleursiona Monday , die ot diem through out the week. The Ear) of Albemarle has been chosen president, and the proceediega rill menotence with a public meeting in the Guildhall of Norwich, when the noble lord will deliver an inaugural 'dares. Mr. T. J. Pettigrew will then favour the magma with an introductory sketch of the antiquities of Norfolk, and en examination will next be made of the castle, churchte, &c. of the city . An evening meeting will ale° be held in the Gaildaill far the reeding and diecuaion of papers. On Tuesday visit' will be made to St. Andrevie- hall, the remains of the Convent of Black Friars, the Cathedral (al la which Mr. H. H. Burnell will teetwe), and the Bishop's Palace. A conversaiene will till up the evening Wednesday will be occupied with an examination of the antiquities of King's Lynn and Castle Rising, And a meeting in the evening at Norwich. Than day will he devoted to an excursion to Great Yarmouth, and remarks will be offered on the gnu old parish church by Mr. C. J. Palmeri Burgh Camp. Calmer Cadle, and Sornerlep ton Hall (the seat of Sir S. M. Pete) will be also visited, and a public dinner in the Town-ball, at Yarmouth, and a COISTSIONZiOiIe at Mr. Palma. well-known mangos will claw the day. On Friday excursions will be made to East Denham Church. Walaingham end Babana Petaled, end East Barehem-ItalL an evening 'meeting at Norwich closing the aoceedinge. On Saturday the remains of the Priory at Thetford will be examined, and Ely Cathedral will be visited aad lectured upon by Mr. C. E. Davis. A Anal asedting will clews the Cleanses. — iiPEN;;C;O;IIIi PEOPLE'S PARK AT HALIFAX. —Os Friday the sew , thrk. which hes her roosts& to the rare of Halifax by Mr. Fmk ess of the rearm id the beremple we. fretsay ereeed. The Irk which the bra bid eth der dears by thr Jr. Paxton, sad is ger anis' rat arm end Me W, is raid to he,. cost MINK The prowler lorresed with a lumber at the Iftschasalei !solitudes. The LS of Shaftesbury, Lord Glethriek Kr Charles Wood, Kr. J. Ministry 111 P., Mr. Piste 111. P , sod the Mares of Leer Bed ded Shahid, old Halifax wen moor the com pany, which ssethend err 4011. Mr. Crosby resided. After the redo. yeeemeits sue brood endpresersd to the pre where Ur. Croft presered the deed et con verses is the Mayor, god ceded en slier drool the catoorear the " peoples °cordage," sad the Tamper er Semlaty. After - ere ecogrstulatter sersise from dr led ef Ithellestory, Lied Breach Missed the ass erak. . the seem of lie meths hie Webb ebeerved - nal day bid hen a pull ow her flee wire mikes, la the visting dank aid be anal 677: after eseler if are three well me arm that the goer rem modlalms which bed keen w ed by Mr. Crawley was wileptheel If be Imes. et Yorkshires's, he knew fled thst serdence leo Tightly rarer 111 thew. Be lisped dee the we/Ades ars al Her: would bring their Whin rd Whim ler het park to enjoy is a raised name the beeetir which ea from would they whew their her ogieidader of the breasted domes usrlikenen • Tit preerthip Awed with the siring of a rein by the disk, which wee joined in by the vast eon serge rime STAMFORD AND ESSEN DINE R AILWAT.—At the Iself-yowly mertiog of tote cesium General Johner io therchair,ll was decided to illAtle a limited number of Pre ference shares, Is &accedence with the sot of parliament reartly germ& EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raom Ova OWN PARIS, SUNDAY EVT.NINO. The Emperor and Empress remained all day at the Tuileries yesterday, and gave a dinner in the evening. They did not lease for St. Cloud till after ten o'clock. They start for Biarritz to-morrow. Count Walewski gave a grand dinner yesterday to the ministers and foreign ambassadors, and a select party in honour of the Emperor's Ate. The Pope's Nuncio proposed the health of the Emperor. Count de Nesaelrodc left Paris yesterday to return to St. Petersburg. This afternoon, at the Palais de l'lndustrie, the Minister of State publicly distributed the prizes awarded to the artists, exhibitors, for 1857. The grand medal of honour wan given to M. Ycon. M. Winterhalter is nominated an officer of the legion of honour. Medals of the first, second, and third class were given to very many artists. The affair of the great robbery of the Northern Itailway will come before the Assize Court of the Seine on . the 26th instant, and is expected to occupy five days. The pri soners have just been privately interrogated by M. President Itouss!gne. M. Latihaud will de fend Carpentier, Grellet and Guerin. M. E. Dufaure is counsel for Parod. The company, as pantie cirite, is represented by M. Chair d'Estange. PARIS, SATVILDAY EVFNINO. The fete Napoleon, for the first time since its re vival by the events:of December, 1661, has been marred by wet weather. A soaking rain, not indeed very heavy but terribly persevering, came down all day long. The unpropitious aspect of the weather was so decided from an early hour that the vast majority of the Parisians resolved not to turn out, and the early . trains, which were expected to bring in their contingents of holiday folk by thousands, came in comparatively empty. The theatres, open gratis, were of course crammed to the ceiling. The eolonnadts of the new Louvre, thrown opts for the first time to the public, were the only novelty of the day's attractions, mid they were the more frequenter because they afforded shelter. This grand Louvre—l speak now of the outside alone— will be an immense addition to the promenades of Paris. The railed garden in the centre is the only thing we have approaching to a London square, and a " square " the I arisians already call it. The I'a villiona, Sully, Turgot, Dimon, he., the names of which are only newly engraved in front of them, will soon become household words. At the Tuileries the Emperor held his usual levee. of the Union and the Unionists, that they have pet it out of their power to curia the independent Moldavians. We are, therefore, not surprised to hear Lo r d PALMERSTON speak u one ignorant of the subject. Lord CLARENDON, in his reply to Lord CLANRICARDE, was much more fair. Lord CLARENDON admitted, what Mr. GLAD STONE assumed, that it would bo a disgrace to Eng land to come forward and openly pretend to consult a country's wisher, whilst secretly it abetted an arbitrary government in stilling them. When speaking of the Moldavian elections, Lord PALMERSTON sought to palliate the violence of the CAIMACAN by observing that the Danubians were unused to elections, which were consequently fiercely disputed by faction. This is quite an error on the part of his lordship. The Moldo-Wallaohians have always been used to elections, have time out of mind chosen the members for their legislative assemblies, and also their sovereigns. Representative govern ment and habits are indigenous in Moldo-Wallachia ; and this forms one of the greatest claims of the Moldo-Wallachians to our respect. The Moldo- Wallach. used, however, to prepare and pro ceed to their elections under their native mogis trates and authorities, and without any inter ference on the part of the Porte. The proudest of the Sultans stipulated with the Danubian, that they should govern themselves and elect , their Prince, to whom the SULTAN WU reedy to grant investiture on the payment of a certain tribute, and on the maintenance of a political and military alliance with Turkey. If the present elections throughout Moldo-Wallaehia show signs of violence, turbulence, and irregularity, it is because a Turkish agent has come to preside over them, and to manage them in Turkish fashion, instead of respecting the old freedom and habits of the country. WE are not much surprised at the result—or rather the no-result—of the Meeting of the Great Western Railway Company. The appointment of a Committee of Investigation is a stern and extreme measure, involving the public exposure of all weak points and of much past mismanagement ; and share holders require a vast deal of provocation before they can be induced to rise up in open and organised rebellion. The Great Western proprietary, more over, has ever been one of the most conservative— so to speak—in the kingdom. The Company's stock is well held ; the Directors, though many of them may be destitute of those business-like qualifications which are absolutely essential to the success of a great mercantile undertaking, are all men of social standing ; and the proprietors have long been in the habit of regarding the Board-room with a species of awe. Consequently, although most of the shareholders are deeply and most justly dissatisfied with the notoriously unremuncrative results achieved by the management, the majority still shrink from active opposition, whilst the minority, who advocate immediate reform, are utterly destitute of organisa tion. l'oesibly had the proposal for a Committee of Inquiry been moved at the meeting by some . . . . . . . . one personally popular with the ;harCholders the contest might have been more dubious; but under the circumstances the actual oppo- sition to the Board was but feeble, and the Directors, besides carrying their Report, obtained with facility the formal sanction of the proprietors to all the other arrangements proposed—although these included the grant of a sum of 5,0001. (in addition to his existing liberal salary of 2,5001. per annum) to Mr. Saunders, and a special annual pro- vision to Mr. Brunel, who is now formally installed as the Company's "consulting engineer." In the minds of many of the shareholders, embittered by a recollection of the ruinous losses sustained through connexion with this Company, the two officers re ferred to are peculiarly identified with the impolitic engagements and extravagant expenditure to which the Company owe all their embarramments. The Great Western Railway, however, is ruled by an oligarchy, whom power is almost absolute, whose proposals rarely encounter more than verbal criticism, and who may be considered virtually independent of the pro- prietors. There cannot be a better illustration eif this than is afforded by the present position of Mr. PONACINBT. It was only in the course of the lot half-year that this gentleman became a Director, and this upon the choice of the Board, not of the shareholders, who had no voice whatever in the matter. Upon the recent resignation of Lord BAJA REACTOR, the Board at once elected as Chairman the new Director, Mr. PONSONBY, who is candid aweigh to acknowledge his own utter " inexperience." Now, we ask, is this a system under which any Company can expect prosperity? Is it in accord ance with the first principles essential to mercantile meows? The Chairman of a great undertaking like this ought to be a man of inde pendent and upright character, thorough busi ness habits, and practical experience. The position of such a man at the helm would be of such vast importance to the Company that the election of a person of Mr. PONSONBIrA avowed inexperience irresistibly induces a suspicion that an inexperienced Chairman is considered the more convenient. The Secretary of the Great Western Railway has long been the head, eye, and band of the Board, and the continuance of his monopoly of office is evidently promoted by the existing arrangement. Two of the most valuable members of the Direction resigned some time ago rather than sanction so anomalous a system. One of these gentlemen, Mr. BAKER, pub licly declared that " without some change the pro prietan must dearly suffer." The other ex-Director, Mr. Ponca, stated openly, as the reason of his re signation, that "Mr. SAENDERS is not only Secretary and organ of the Board of Direc tors, to whom you entrust all the adminis tration of the affairs of the Company, bat he is also the general superintendent of the Company— the sole head and organ of the executive in him, therefore, are combined all the powers of the Com pany, and the Board of the Great Western Railway Company, contrary to the established practice in all the other great railway corporations, has not the ad vantage of that division of labour which, by means of permanent committees controlling each deport ment, qualifies individual members of the Board for their duties of superintendence and direction, and infuses knowledge and responsibility into the whole." So spoke two voices from the Board—the veined mom who had the magnanimity to resign rather than eon tinne to participate in a system the evils of which were so patent. That system remaining totally unreformed, can we wonder at the result ? At the meeting on Friday last the Direc tors allayed the spirit of opposition in some quarters by professing their perfect willingness to admit to the Board three or four " practical men," provided that such could be found. But what is the value of a vague promise of this kind? What men of independent character and self-respect are likely to join the Board as it is at present constituted ? The Directory, we may be sure, will 0017 elect men who will not go into opposition, and thus the Great Western Railway, a property representing twenty three millio' of actually expended ("pita], will con tinue to be governed by an ins/Tensible oligarchy— .' it ever has been. U. Mists AM C. Duns] ; meow at T. HIGH WATIII AT LONDON BRIDOI. 1 DAT -tilessia& n. C1ua.......-Albantom. iL I{a. reassamr—holy, 41.44 m. Attersoce, 11. 17.. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 17. IF we may believe the statements in a private letter from Paris, of which an extract appears in another column of this day's issue, the honour of England is in imminent danger of being gravely compromised. We are told that in the event of the Court of Maize pronouncing M. LEDILV ROLLIN guilty in absence, an application will be made to the English Government to have him apprehended and surrendered. Nay more : we are told that Lord COW LET has already expressed the opinion that if a conviction against M. 'AMIE ROLLIN is obtained, that gentleman will be brought within the provisions of the extradition treaty. We will not do Lord COWLET the injustice to believe, on the un supported assertion of Imperial diplomatists, that he has been capable of giving utterance to so base a sentiment. No English Police Magistrate would have dreamed of committing M. LEDRO Rou.tx, or suss sonswilng him for further inquiry, upon such we sad we ekes evidence es has been adduced seise him. No Englishman, worthy of the name, win hmour the arbitrary proceedings against M. LIDRII ROLLIN with the name of " a There is no intervention of a jury I times lis we sifting of evidence, no cross-examinees') of witnesses. Any sentence pronounced upon IL Limit ROLLIN, after such iniquitous, farcical pro ceedings, will be as worthless as the nailing of the names of Hungarian patriots to Austrian gibbets. The one no more establishes a claim to the extra dition of the victim than the other. There is net a man of common sense in England who believes that N. Lwow ROLLIN had anything to do with the late pint M Illnesinate the Emperor of the FRENCH. And Am is sat a wen in England who has watched the wpm of swine in France since 1.832, who is not awn. that M. LEONE' RoLLlN—for what seams we know not—is the greatest bugbear of the Imperialist faction of all the exiles. M. ORANIER DE CASSAGNAC has denounced him ; Dr. VERON has libelled not only him but his wife; and now it is palpable to sense that the late trial has been got up simply and solely for the purpose of making out a sham case against M. Lenne ROLLIN. The attempt has signally failed; and we cannot imagine that an English Cabinet can be so far lost to a sense of what is due to English honour as basely to sacrifice an exile, who has done nothing to forfeit his right of asylum, to the conscience inspired fears of a despotic government. Even though the title of the Emperor of the FRENCLI to his crown were as clear and legi timate as that of oar own QUEEN to hers—even though, like her, he were throned in the breast of his subjects—it would be cowardly and degrading to , seek to conciliate him by the sacrifice of a man who has as good a right to feel himself safe in Britain as any man who breathes the air within its confines. And be it kept in mind that England observes the forms of civility to the Estrum's because it Mi -1 neatly desires the French Alliance, not tolerates the French Alliance on account of any extraordinary love it beers the EMPEROR. Englishmen esteem and love the gallant and accomplished people of France, sad for this reason they treat respectfully the man who is for the time the Chief Magistrate of France. But were the throne of LOUIS NAPOLEON to be overturned to-morrow it would no more affect the alliance of the two nations than would the breaking up of the PALMERSTON Ministry. The friendship of France and England would be of brief duration if it depended on the ephemeral dynasty of the Sovereign of the Coup d'Elat. It would be as foolish as cri minal to purchase the friendship of the Emperor of the Pantegn by the sacrifice of the hereditary free policy of England. There is not at this moment a more popular Sovereign than the Queen of ENG LAND; but we would not insure the continuance of that popularity for a day, if secret conclaves at Osborne were to be followed by such a degradation of Eng land as Parisian diplomatists profess to expect. IT will prove most gratifying, and at the Name time most trattqaillising, to the Christians under Turkish sway, and especially to thaw of the Danu bian Provinces, to find the British Parliament so fully alive to tteir complaints, their rights, and their welfare. They moat now see that if the leading non in the British Parliament observed too long an miaow dines with respect to their affairs, this did set premed from indifference, but from a trust of Warman& However perseveringly we ourselves called attention to the "deride of the Oreverners appointed by Turkey, and to the impolicy sad disgrace of England's abetting such a system of government, some evidence more precise and docu mentary was required to warrant a Member of Par- Hameln la rides to demstoce them. The evidence collected by a Committee of the most eminent and noble Moldavian', and presented by them to the Corareissiosers at Bucharest, having been printed in a small velem, enabled Mr. 61.1DSTONE to point out a fewof theme, gram instances of violence. The French Consul at laseyplaced irrefragable testimony to the same effect before the Emeettos... If the Eng lish Government is without information of the same kind, it is its ow* halt. Its Canal at Jamey is aged moo, kigaPelie of applying Ministers at hose with those ample materials for judgment which the French take oars to have. Oar Consasissiour in the Danubian Prorinose has not visited Jassy at all ; and those subordinate English agents who hire visited it hays distinguished themselves by mall RUSSIA. The Gazette de Caugne publishes a tele graphic despatch, from Ecenigsberg, announcing that the cabinet of St. Petersburg has resolved to make a reduction of upwards of 30,000 men in the Imperial Guard. Each regiment will lose a colonel and will be reduced to t4OO men. A reduction of the whole army it said to be probable. The despatch announces also that the ltussian go vernment is engaged in equipping a flotilla destined for the Chinese Stria. UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOT, SrxnA7. This morning the Ilritish and North American royal mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott, entered the river from New York, with dates to the sth 111.4., 41 passengers, and 917,000 dollars in specie. We learn from her that the royal mail steam-ship Persia had arrived on the sth. . . The screw steam-ship Edinburgh passed in on the .sth from the Clyde, and the City of Baltimore, from this port, and the United States steam-ship Fulton, from Southampton, were passed by the Asia on the Bth. The news by the Asia, although four days later than we previously had, is of very little interest to the European reader. The telegraphic accounts from the South report heavy rains and destructive hailstot ms, and that the crops had suffered severely. Ihe United States steam-frigate Roanoke had arrived at New York with upwards of 200 of Walker's filibusters on board. Havana advice, to the 22nd ult. report sugars without change, the stock on hand amounting to 225,000 boxes. The island was healthy. 'I he labour market had received a supply, consisting of one cargo of 400 ltozal negroes, landed near Cardenas, from the brig W. D. Miller, and two cargoes of Coolies, arrived from Chins. _ _ Advices from Texas state that Senator Itusk com mitted suicide at his residence on the 29th ult., by shooting himself through the head with a rifle. A letter from Boston, dated August 1, says:— '• A despatch from St. Pierre, Miquelon. dated July 27, states that the bark Monaco, of Warren, Me., from Guttcnburg for New York, was totally lost near Burin, Newfoundland, on the 21st inst., to gether with fifty Swedish steerage passengers. The captain and his wife, and the crew and six passengers, were saved. The crew rind the six passengers were landed at St. Pierre, and were sent on to ?sew York in the brig Lewis Gilles, by the American Consul. The captain goes home vie Sidney." Hors-gore RATS.—I have already spoken of the Mom and fertility of the Hong-Kong rata. When Minu tiae; the dictator, was swearing Flantinius in as his master of the horse we are told by I'letsrch that a rat chanced to squeak, so d the superatitious people compelled both Akers to resign their posts. Odle° would be hold under great un certainty in Hong-Kong if a similar i , uperatition prevailed. Sir John Dowring has just been swearing in Genend Ash burabarn as member of the Colonial Council. and if the rate were silent they showed unusual modesty. They have forced themselves, however, into a state paper. Two hundred rats arc destroyed everyniebt in the gaol. Each morning the Chi nese primness see with tearful eyes and watering mouths a pile of them delicacies cast out in 'mate. It teas if Christian pri- POCICeII were to see scores of white stoking-picre toned forth to the dugs by Malmenesien gaolers. At last they could refrain no longer. Dvring the punishment of tail cutting, which follows any infraction of prison discipline, they tint attempted to abstract the delicacies , . Foiled in this, they took the store manly course. They Melded a petition in good Chinese, proving from Confucius that it is sinful to emit away the food of man, and praying that the meat night be handed over to them to cook and est. This is a fart, and if Gemmel Thompson doubts it I recommend him to move fur a envy of the etirrespondenoe—Lelterfrona Nong-Notog. CANTON ENGLIsIL—The basis of this " Canton English "—which is a tongue and a literature for there ate dictionaries and grimmer* to elucidate it, cards P of turning the "r" into the "I," adding total vowels to every word, and a constant use of "carey" for " know '• " talkoo" foe "speak," "y" for " piece," "number one" for "tint claw," but espe piece ly and above all the continual employment of the word " pigeon." Pigeon !RUMP business in the most extended mare of the word. " Heaven pigeon halt go: " means thist rhureb service has commenced ; • Joe pigeo n " means the lthuddist ceremonial • Any pigeon Canton F " mean. "Have any operations taken place at Canton 'r" " That no boy pigeon, that Coolie pigeon,' is the form of ' your servant's remonstrance if you nib him to fill your bath or take • letter. It elm means profit, edeentage, or specula tion. " Him Wang ton much fooln, him no gamy, rely good pigeon bob got," was the enemientar7 of the Chinese pilot upon the Fatah= Creek bUltilteFA. Lntil you can not only speak this language fluently, but also, which iv for wore difficult, understand it when spoken rapidly in a low mono tonous voice, all communiesition with your versant, is levee aible. The second morning after I had been installed in my dwelling my new " boy " Ah Lin, *lin sleeps on a mat outside my door, and whom I suspect to live principally upon aucremful rat hunts, for he knocks down about three per diem with a bamboo pole as they run about the room— this Ah Lin, drawing up my nnisquito curtains, presenting me with the Ma o'clock cup of tea, and Oaring at me with his little round eyes, gravely remarked, "Meson Smith one small *cry cow child hob got." It was a long time heirs I comprehended that, it being *part of a "boy's" duty to inform his master of the social events of the colony, he wished to give me to understand that Mrs. Smith had pre sented her husband with a &lighten—Tines Correspondent at Hong Kong. MILE AT HONG Korn.--; , A cow I never saw; yet there is milk. But that milk is need by few and ahuddend at by many. Whence it conies is the darkest mystery of Hong Kong economic.. The only quadruped that could be ouppsed to produce it is the pig—for pigs do mist in the island ; but it is whispered as a caution, end with oblique glance at the milk jug, that the Chinese matron hermit—but enough ; very few people take milk, except that which is lest out Is Y es.—Taws correspoadeat. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THIS DAY. The Bre...am took ike ebeir et 12 (Mork. Pill VATS SiNESS. • The Lords' amendme nts o ebe Leo oter sad Carlisle and Ingkton Railway Bill were agreed to. Sir JAMES GRA lIAM moved that a select committee be appointed to inspect the Lords' Journals relative to the Mer sey Conservancy Bill which bee passed this house. The right hon. beronet explained that the object of this bill was to authorinc the transfer of certain dues from the town coun cil of Liverpool to the Dock Trust ; these dues last year amounted to no less than 150,0001., and the proposed trowder was the result of an arrange ment which had been entered into fur construct ing dock work; on both 'the Cheshire and Lanca shire side of the Mersey. A considerable debt had been cre ated on the security of the dues, and when the bill canoe before the select committee of this house a juestion ammo as to how much of this debt should be allocated to the Town Council. The committee determined that the amount ahoald be 750,0001., but in the Lords this amount hod been altered to 1,500,0001. Since then all the par ties to the bill hod met and determined U . e crept the alteration rather than prolong their litigation for another year. The decision of the Lords however, could not ho put in force, and as it wan of the lest importance that no delay should take place in the exterlition of the works on the Cheshire aide, he now mode this motion with the view of following it with another in the evening sitting for leave to introduce the amended bill. The commerce of the port of Liverp o ol was daily growing in its proportions, and the new te,rks to be carried out under the Lill were absolutely necesairy for ha accommodation. . -- Mr. J. EWART seconded the motion, and, after rome remarks from Mr. HENLEY, it to. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONI.IL CAUSES DILL. The committee on this bill was than resumed, monism* with clause 2fl. Ile. DO WILL proposed en amendment leaving the re fusal of a divorce for consideration discretionary to the court, whith was agreed to. An amendment, proposed by Mr. IM RAM, was nega tived without a division and the clause ngreed to. ]Left sitting=] PURCHASE OP COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY• This morning Was issued, in a large blue book of 500 page', the report of the commissioners apimintid to in quire into the system of purchase and wile of commissions in the army, with evidence and appendix. The com missioners endeavour to chow that, if the pur chase system be abolished, it will become in dispensable, for the purpose of maintaining the ettitiency of the British army, to adopt a new system of retirement and promotion—viz., to make retirement after a died age or period of service compulsory, and to give promotions by selection. They endeavour further to show that compulsory ement will be alone an inadoquate embatitule for the sale of ummissions; but they consider that its partial adoption would facilitate a measure which they propose for the Pekes fon of while they 4. not engem di/7 tutting the extorting system es regunla the purchase and pale of commissions up to the rank of major inclusive. Tha . _ . commissioners recommend that hereafier the lieut.-voloneky of a regiment should be an appointment made by the Kitelke of the Commander-in-Chief flu:a All the majors in that pad of the service, and that the period of holding this command should for the future be linked, and that a time should be fixed—eight er perhape ten years—as the longest duration of snvb command. 015 sers,however, who relinqubli the command of a regiment, after holding it for the prescribed time. most not suffer any pecuniary leas from the change; the govern ment must also he prepared to purchase the lieutenant coloneley from any officer now holding the command of a regiment whenever any one may be desirous of selling his commission. The CoololiMiODeetS ata them cautious in introducing the principle of se . . lection "from en earnest define that its application shoild be fairly tested by experience." They sunclit further, that " promotion to the staff might be made the moons of dime toting military education, rewarding meritorious °fibers, and obviating some of the hardships which must arise under the purchase system." A course of training in the senior department at Sandhurst might bo made an indirpensible condition to the attainment of a staff appointment, and the limitation of the time during which ottLere shall hold each situations would render these appointments additionally ser viceable. "All there changes;' old the commissioners, "in asmuch as they introduce the principle of advancement by selection, tend toward■ the atolition of the purchase system. When experience shall have proved that officers appointed to the command of regitnenta and to situations on the staff have been chosen with duo regard to their profe.ional ac quirements, to their past service, and to their present fitness. the distrust of the principle of selection will be lewen.d, and one great obstacle to the change of system will be removed." A system of periodical inspection by officers specially appointed for the purpose, as is practised by the French army, would probably be found, the commissioners think, a beneficial nurtsure nuy scheme of promo- tics by aelection is extensively Mired:cod in the English array, there should be a general confident*, observe the com missioners, that the power of selection will not be misused. " The military appointments made during lets years, as well in this country NO in the Crimea, have not tended to satidy the army with the mode on which the principle of selection has been applied." The report is signed by the Duke of Somerset, Lord Stanley, the Right llonoumblo Sidney Her bert, Sir 1)e Lacy Evans, Sir Harry D. done!, and Mr. George Corr Glyn. There is , statement, however, an nexed to the report, in which Sir 1)0 Lacy Hesse observed that he concurs in the recommendations as far as they go, but "Lathe evidence adduced Lae strengthened the conviction which he previously held on this subject, and as hebelieves that some additional measures; may, with adnntage to tbe public, be adopted, having for object a more early terutination of the system of sok and purchase of commissions in the army than is provided for iu this report—be will feel it bin ditty to trans mit es soon so practicable to the office of the rommiution represen'ation of Ma humble opinions to this effect." The following are the witnesses who were examined by the commissioners ; we give them in the order of their ex- amination .—kfojor-General Sir Chitties Yotke, Lieut.- Colonel Tolland, P. Mclrill, Esq., General R. J. H. Vivian, C. Ilarnmersley, Esq., Major-General Dupuis, and Lieut-Culonel Bingham ; Sir B. Hawes, J. Roberts, Esq., H. J. Higgins, Esq., Lieutenant-Colonel Claremont, General Sir George Brown, Colonel Chas. Stuart, Sir Duncan :Macdougall, Sir Richard Aires,, Colonel Stet* Lieutenant-General Sir Do Lacy Evans., Colonel Lord West, General Sir James Simpson, Colonel Wesley, Major- General Sir James Scarlett, Colonel Prank*, Lieutenant- General Sir Colin Campbell, Brigodier-General Spencer, Lord Panrurtre, Major-General Sir H. Barnard, Copt. Dian Pherson, Earl Grey, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cora ' bridge, and Sir Charles Trevelyon. A scheme for the aboli tion of purchase and for the substitution of another system of army promotion and retirement was submitted to the commissioners by Sir C. Trovelyan, the assistant secretary of the treasury, sod this scheme is printed in the appendix to the report, together with the financial statements adduced in its support. The general principle d this scheme is borrowed from the French military system. qualified, however, by the adoption of regulations which have of late years been partially introduced inte our own civil service. The ministerial whitebait dinner at Greenwich is postponed to Wednesday next. It is atilt expected that the tion of parliament may take place upon the appointed prorogation mely, Saturday neat, the fled But when we look at the delay. in the debates up en the Divorce Bill, we fair that the eeeeion may be prolonged half a week, or even en entire week, longer.-06,rerar of yesterday. The beautiful manor of Holcombe Rogue, which for reverld generations was in the family of Mime, has bean purchased by the Bev. W. Mayer, of Tiverton, fur 85,0001. — Bristol Adrertistr. MIL RUSKIN IN TILE NORTII.—Among our rid tore this week, Pays the birernefir Courier, was Mr. Rusk* the accomplished and popular author, who reaided for some days at the Union Hotel. On Monday IR. Ituakin drove to the Fall of I.,yerA, and expreseed himself highly retifted with the scenery of Loch Nee/. Two excellent 'agliot artists, Mr. Juxeuni and Mr. S. Read, have alas been engaged sketching some of the picturesque taidscapes la tile neighbourhood. MR. SMITII O'BRIEN.—On Saturday last, W. Smith O'Brien, Beg., entertained Lie uumerous tenantry Cahermoyle. A moat substantial repaid was provided--bas mutton. pastries, wine, and the native, with fleggons of ales About 150 dined. The entertainment was entirely of a stead character. Mr. O'Brien introduced his eldest son, Mr. FA ward O'Brien, to Lie tenantry, and that distinguiehedyoung gentleman addregerd them very feelingly and affectionately. la After the repeat followed athletic sport. and dancing. dancing. which the fair portion of the retries displayed much tadesed grace, and all the members of Mra. tiriin'e family joined. A blazing bonfire Hung its enlivening rays around. The tenants ere a very superior clan; they enjoeed thenterlrsr greatly, and, after a most delightful day's eaterts.ismeals Faro cheer. for Mrs. O'Brien and her family, who cordial al:Vs the merriment, and all departed for their Newlin This I. as it should be, slut webvii that othil landlords will follow the example of this good wise, sod be. se they ought to Le, fathers to their tenants.—Liweeirk Pow. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING JIAT. SATI'III/411', Act. 15.—Admieetons as neyesent, 1001 A diary by woos tickets, 1,785; total, 12.034. 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