The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-14 00:00:00

. PUS? a lift IM V, !WM.% 1 .. 4 G ID. Upgr Aksinvis," ab.AMY NEWS n LENT TO READ, from 8 am., Var i er I T Zt= N i ..pur:"=74;"4"irVir irbt expreoo. iiwtrieses taZielier .tiaiine., • liebeie i twseint pope, mut be at tie Ogle. leolleavereememe. by Tim YOk& en the air eg pellillotlea. THY DAILY MIPS : LONDON MORNING ImadiaM=arthr i adnini t itV: 6 l o ""i illand NOM& the wool mad yawl 0 re imam r . .-111M myna d Ils =M 4 old la 0.• wd••••••ills gni = 1110100 . 4111110110 mania is the et c 0 .4001/ lblEr 15 . 1125:51/ PIM I: jeattralawattu i " 8 " EMI MIMIC{ MOST. ed•llesdr l ~ t sdr %re dzIN e s' ed. Nod • densber p= " A d %mord op ammo Is the Lesion; or at 11 1 " be Oa otatthe yam 1.7 weft aareks i" Zz 10 in 170.1 9 7 6"6 11.011C Pl 4 Whew b. hoeilles mar. NEWS FORWARDED to the COUN- RAT MAXIM. TVs &MIN A TRIAL Posldialt. ONAPARI. Pam, 16111•A r Row i lmA . ..11 Clark , MIN ftriar. raw —""nudaiilmsa sieluAw Th " . , & BRAD "t riMA k r n .—Osommio jil' "eirt 1111TICSOFFL Tau Rms., • 0•11116 OF /LOIIFL-41 IMO IMAM) TEI 1110030. Er. ani Mew C. law— Dem op= afi beg. 10.1 G. 00.1RANY. lyNsin, TRW IRAN LIM Shopbud-ONIDAP. Ilrlehmesbi P 01.—A.4 TIC DONN BATOTARD AND NONNLY. N. Thu..; Ilad•ma AwleL—Draa 01 et la pus HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Its DA• °rein.. 416 Ma. Ahersoce. 411. Tirissabov—lllamatg. Sh. ISa. aftarace. lb. M. LONDOIV, TUESDAY. APRIL 14. TO OUR A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published ON SATURDAYS u usual, during the Parliamentary recess. AMONG the more important inquiries interrupted by the Dissolution, was that of the Committee appointed to consider the best means of " improving the Manner and Language of Current Legislation." This Committee, which will probably be re-appointed in the new Parliament, has reported the evidenoe taken before it, but, considering the inquiry incom plete, abstains from expressing any opinion upon the subject matter of investigation. The Committee exa mined Ave witnesses, four ofwhomi wersoilicial endow nommoleil. The odleial vritommee were Mr. COULSON, the Government draftsman ; Mr. BELLS/MEN Era, the paid member of the present and all preceding Statute Law Commissions ; Mr. RICKARDS, the counsel to the Speaker; and Mr. Burma MAT, the cleritassistant of the House of Commons. The son-olieial witness was Mr. GEORGE COODI, long and fivourably known to English jurists as the author of an able work on " Legislative Expression," one of the mast zealous of those four gentlemen who. in 18,5, were appointed as sub cedillas ander Mr. BKLLENDEN Kan, and by their rapid energy caused considerable alarm and diecont kat to that model commissioner. The evidence of these Are gentlemen, widely dis cordant en many point*, is sabetantially identical an one : they all concur in thinking that the task of re viling the current legislation of the Elusion ought to be entrusted to me reeptentlie clean aided by • more or loss numenes staff of einistants. It mans also to to admitted by all the are winsome that the duties of this functionary should consist not in drawing bills, but in revising them, and pointing out their legal effect, particu larly as bearing on the exiting mar of statute and common law. It also seem, agreed that it should be a perdu of his functions to group and classify, under appropriate heads, the new acts which each session adds to the present balk of the statutes. Whether the °Mow thus appointed is to form a portion of a new Deportment of Public Justice—whether he is to communicate immediately with the Moue, or only mediately through a committee, are points on which the evidence hitherto taken throws no great light. Incidentally, them minutes of evidence are, in many respeeb, interesting not to lawyers only, but .to the labile at lug*. Most of as, far instance, may hug obliged to Mr. Essence MAT for the segments infermation he lass supplied on the statistics of the great law-making machine at West minster tar the years 1864,'63, and '36. In the ses sion el 1864 the total number of bills brought into the Maus was 177. Of these, 67, or rather more then ms•third, were introduced by private DlATl bars. The total number of bills that failed in pass ing was 66. Of these failure', no less than 49 were among the bills introduced by private members. In 1866, the total number of bills brought in wu 197; et bine not pealed, 83. Here, again, the proportion . of failures among bills introduced by private mem been WO very considerable-63 out of 73. In 1836, cot at 177 bills introduced, 77 did not pus. Out of ads number, the bills introduced by private mem bees were 64, of which 46 dropped, or were re jected. Such is the rate at which law-making programs. It is, indeed, somewhat consolatory to learn that the addition to the general public low of the /Taira iiisedersi is by no means what these numbers would indicate. Thos, taking the legislation of 1866, we find that out of 134 Acts of Parliament, occupying 1,003 folio pages, only 38 Acts, occupying 220 pages, really constituted public general laws such as it would be neceesery to print for any purposes of general reference and nee. Carrying the analysis stall farther, we find that of these 220 pages, 99 would contain the statutes of the year relating to the whole United Kingdom, 10 those relating to Great Britain, 20 those relating to England and Ireland, and 103 those relating to England only. Even with this abatement, the annual incre ment in the Statute Book is • very serious evil, and seems to indicate that without some radical change in the science of legislative expres sion as hitherto practised in this country, the hope of bringing our Statute Law into reasonable compass must ever be to a great extent chimerical. We have on previous occaaions indicated our opinion s f the nature of the change required. We most no longer attempt to frame laws to provide beforehand for every pomade came that may arise for their appli cation. We must not attempt to frame laws that shall be proof against every possibility of legal quibbling and perverted ingenuity. Both attempts are almost equally absurd. The one, indeed, is utterly hopeless : the other involves a painful effort after scrupulous accuracy which is in itself often the cause of obscurity, and always of prolixity. Wherever Codes exist, wherever laws are methodised, chwei fled, and reduced into written systems, the vole object of the law writer is tersely and perspi cuously to lay down the general rale, trusting to the law administrator that he will apply it not in the spirit of quibbling pedantry— sot with the desire of showing that he, the judge, is acute enough to discover that the law does not neee•- warily and interns =tad to the use Ware bier-bat in a larp and liberal spiritof inaiglatenel Ihtsyreta tion, seeking to penetrant tote the km inteMbem Cl the legislator, and to vitalise,. lty au intelligent se- Plieetioe. the deed letter of Sr general revs. It is the rules of judicial intentioned's", not only the rein of legislative emaposition, which absolutely requite reconsideration before our written law can ever aspire to a character of manageable conciseness and philo sophical sammasy. Bo well was this understood by our cousins wan the Atlantic, that one of the pre liminsry rules in many of their coder is a rule of judicial interpretation—a direction to the judges as to ennead the law as to give effect rather to its spirit than to it. letter. . That the feet is uwe have Mated it, is more than owe explicitly admitted by the witnesses examined before the recent Committee. " Nobody," says Mr. BELLI:XI= Ira (Q. 343), "is more willing than I am to give great praise to the revisers of the cods of New York; bat our system of judicial interprets. tion is so diligent from the way in which the law is interpreted by the judges both in Baotou and New York, that I am quite convinced that the code of New York or tho code of Boston would not mtialy oar wade here. I thiuk there is hardly • lime of the sod* of New York that would Not employ the Court of Queen's Beach or the Court of amnion Pleas for weeks." Very likely; but where does the discredit rest? Barely not on the law-writ," who have returned to a method of legislative expression consecrated by the practice of the greatest jurists and the politest ages; but on the law admigus' trators, who still cling to a mode of interpretation which sprung up in rude times, and was principally perpetuated in order to defeat by a laudable chicane the Draconic cruelty of a penal cods which had become abhorrent to oar manners, long before it was abolished frcsa ear Statute Book. Until this absurd. end now weedy annecessery, strictness of julisig inkorpoteliss onohonswi for a mode of low-sendmlotradow Mora rational end civilised, we confess we have no hogs of seeing the language of our written law attain to anything hie the scientific precision and the concise yet sionprehtinsive money of the great models of hisiskik• alsamis‘ But, in the meanwhile, there b imam Art, ma upon the present system of paiiiiisildloitead against all the possible quibbles ansiiiisalllaawm, the language of our Legislature iseagallit at bissiimaide improvement. It may be mama ire pub% more uniform, and less Isatologiowg —is we know of any better method of ottani, lbw ads than the adoption of each principles d kiiihdins imposition a these which Mr. Coots boo diewaroi M the Minutes of Evidence Jul pinto& Vein plUsturely extinguished Com- MOM gbe Court. BIRTH OF A OF TIER MAJESTY. DAY.) PALACE, Arum 14, 1867. At seven minutes before two o'clock p.m. this day the Queen was safely delivered of a Princess. There were present on the occasion in her Ma. jestre ream his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Loesek, Dr. Snow, and Mrs. Lilly, the monthly nurse. Is the adjoining apartments, besides the other medical attendants (Sir James Clerk and Dr. Fergnma)orere the Mistress of the Robes, the lady in waiting ca the Queen, and the following officers of state and Reds of the Privy Council, viz.:—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Lord. Chancellor, Viscount Palmerston, Sir George Grey, Earl at Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Papaw, Sir Charles Wood, the Bishop of Landau, sad th e Marquis al Breadolbane. Mow Albert rode on horseback with the Prince of WAN youborday =webs', 'Undid by Copal& De Plat. Me Priori Aiwa and tie Priootos iodore of Hobos lobo Loagoakerg took equestrian exorcise is tie kldia SelsooL ma Duchess at Lard sad the Duke of Cambridge, the Prisons at HiYalok. leagesbarg, Lady An.. Maria Dam, Lady Cremona, Hr °Gorge Coupe, and the Equerry is Waiting to the Doke of Catabridp, diesel with her Ifejesty yester day mrseing. • no bond C 4 the diddelmai Guards irtee In stiondance during Maw. TM Qnson's plumb band dierwinia attended In Durk- Pawn. Dawn!his bon tin Gomm al Canada and IL wen teselved paarday at tie Caloadsl-oane. Viscomoraso PAuturrox.—Wo on gratified to lama that the men eirealstall by • !nobly ecetssipooszy that Lady Pah;teetro le laboort4 gado ladispoeltke; Is la correct. The caged Lord and Lady Palmerston had is Vidor Tommy, way kir two days, after the aeblepreader's sisottasesdag via Is Tivoli., via to pay a visit to the Right Ha L. Sasso sad body, the ramifies at Lord Pehaenters, who bare beta ratehot et t►at Ilswearies water log pleas drib the wither. Their Pavia Rieman. the Dachas of Cambridge sad the Mims Mazy wiU remala at Cambridge Cottage, Kew, mall the Int week Is the temalag ma* when they , will ammo to St. Jimmie Palace for the alaaon. The Hereditary Greed Duke and Grand %rhea of Maddeabersit ehditr, sad their yoothfal sou, are ex pasted le entre la this tawdry I. the mares of ant month, ea a Welt to the Dachas* of Cembridge. The Hereditary Onad Hake and Grand Dubow will stay shoat two mouths to Leedom. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are at present ces a A& with Use Due of Leiser, el Carton Howe, new ' - ml Dueller (Dowager) of Beaufort and the Lean likaweeet hare wriwed In town for the mason from visiting thi Dyke lad Mame of Boanfort at Badminton, and the Bert end Coasters of Wilton at Egerton Lodge, Wl ton Monkey. The Ma;quis and Marchioness of Londonderry, Lard end Lad? Hwy Vane, Sir Cherie' Melville, and other &adorable company, ere among the company at Feast sokrarsdng se the Royal Victoria Hotel, St. Lernards- on -See. __. _ _ - The is . mai. and Marchioness — of Exeter are enter- talegag a whet drub at Burghley Haw, Beaunfeed. Frame' Anne Marehijoes; of Londonderry is ex ported to Mara to-day tram Wystard Park, Miriam. Tits Countess of Jersey sad Lady Clementine VU. Bare Mlt tows yesterday, to asks a aerial el visite in the gserlatss darts. the holidays. - . We (Morning Post) regret exceedingly to have Ores *Welty to ma aaaolasseestat which reached um ye.- today, ea spasteatly load authority, to the Alai that the Seel et Beimore wee about to *WM a mataitematal &Masse with a dasilder of Lead &ftervilla Than Is ao loaadatioa fix the report. Vareaunt and ramountau Caxabermere are ex ported la tows cat Saturday asst, tram Coalmen Abbey, Chubb*. Lady Stanley of Alderley, the Rom. Mils Stan ley, and the Hon. Captain Stanley propose to return from Madeira at the fad client month. The Hom. Capt. Stanley's health Ye improved. Lord sad Lady Willoughby d'Eresby are re adying • seceisdaa of visitors daring ths holidays, at Oriostiosspa, that lest la Liscolaaldre. Lord sad Lady Forerun= hays left town for Damembe Part, Tortabire. Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor and family have some to Moore Park 'MB the meeting or parliament Sir Benjamin Hall has arrived in town from his met in W.N. Sir John Lister and Lady Lister Kaye and family he,. imbed la Partlead-plees, fix the eemon, tram their mat, Dolby Grew, Ti,..orksh We are sorry to learn that General Sir James Maodosil, 0.C.8., k Wigan!. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1857: EXPRESS FROM PARIS. • (nos OM OWN 00WIPONDINIT4 PARIS, MONDLT ZWENINO. Thaw is no eymptoni of the re-opening of the Nirekhltel Oonkrenoe. The latest news from Berne confirming the telegraphic statement that the federal government will go no further in the way of concession, indicates—es the general principle upon which the council proneds—u resistance upon every point incompatible with the sovereignty of Switzerland, or with the federal constitution; and as to all other points, every ooncession compatible with the dignity of Switzerland." This is far from being precise. But the same correspondence states that among the conditions which Switzerland will not accept is the one concerning the re-establish ment "of the venerable class of Neufehitel pastors in all' their immunities, whether religious, political, or financial." Such a corporation would constitute an /uprises ss Imperio, the evils of which are, in an especial manner, manifested by the history of the principality of Neufchatel. Frederick the Great, writing to a statesman about a theological dispute concerning the eternity of punishments in which his minister, Petitpierre, had taken a part, which had provoked a persecution by his colleagues, thus confessed his impotence to overrule the religious corporation of Neufchatel :—" I desired to protect my minister, Petitpierrfl, against the intolerance of the priests, but I could do nothing, and I was obliged to abandon the measures I had taken for the pro tection of lean Jacques Rousseau." The bill for taxing private carriages in Paris, which, after peeing the Corps Legislatif (not with out unusual opposition) was thrown nut b 7 the Senate two years ago, as uneoutitational, is to be brought forward again in a slightly amended shape. The Senate, in thus using for the first and only time its prerogative of rejecting a measure for wiconsti tationality, did not, and indeed had no power to give its reasons. But it is understood that the legal ground upon which that inastrious body relied, u an excuse for protecting their own pockets, was, that whereas the oonstitntion says that the Corps Legislatif shall rots the taus, the bill in question did not fix the amount. This objection will now be removed. It is proposed to put a tax of 120 f r. upon a two-horse carriage, and of 130 fr. upon a carriage drawn by cue hone, and it is calculated that at these rats the product of the tax will be a million. In answer to the argument formerly used, that sumptuary laws are impolitic, it will be urged that the present measure is of a purely municipal character, and is, in fact, nothing mon than a con tribution to the repairs of the streets by those who enjoy the use of them. The Bourse has been better. Speculation in the Brute was very animated. The 'Three per Cents. rose 40c. both for ma and account, closing at 69fr. 90c. and 7014. lere. ; Mobilier rose 10fr. The railway market was ler decided than the Bente, bat most of the lines closed at an improvement. Northern roes 10k.; Lyons, 12fr. 600. ; and Medi terranean, 6fr. The Prow says, in its weekly commercial review : Trade la Paris le still vary calm The UAW seam and the has weather lad to same mama d advaiss in the shops, bat boslases is sot yet as settee wit &weld be at this tines of the year. Ths Paris houses have began to sled their elders to the primal saoaahoiarea bat dry aro very doe to compiles thalr snorters* waking tar a more market derard. Aneasibegly, aviosto from the anenufao taring districts speak gessrally d a slats of stegnation. The tightness of massy adds to the didinally in the way of doing bushman Within the last few days numbers of imperial waggons have been sent of from the Garde Meuble to Fontainebleau, with hrniture and decorations, destined to adorn the palace for the reception of the Grand Duke Cusetastine. On Sunday neat a second grand banquet will be given by Swiss residents in Paris. Dr. Kern and M. Batman have promised to attend. 1 News has been received from Venice of the death of Count Fiquelmont, the celebrated diplomatist, at the age of eighty-two. Easter Sunday being observed es a strict holiday by the Paris prase, we are this morning without a single journaL SPAIN. The Madrid Chuff* of the 9th ocatnins a royal decree granting an " ample and general amnesty to all those who, in any manner whatsoever, have taken pert in the Cellist insurrections sad conspira cies of the last two years." The decree is based on a report signed by all the ministers, in which an in dulgent view is taken of the Carlist movements, and in which it is said that the pardoning of the offenders will cause no danger to public order. The other journals of the 9th contain no news. TWO SICILIES. A letter from Palermo of the Slat, in the Opiniotie of Turin, announces the execution of Spinuzza, one of the insurgents engaged in the late: outbreak. "Pursuant to the sentence," the correspondent writes, "he was shot at Cefalu before his own house, his family having previously been sent out of the town in order to spare them the sorrow of witueming the tragedy. Before his execution, Spinal= was taken to a church opposite his how% where he ceafemed his sins, obtained absolution, received the sacrament, and heard mass. Dwing whole ceremony the sacristan, who had known ' from his boyhood, wept bitterly. Illpinnzsa, be leav ing,hqs begged to be allowed to embrace ' which was granted ; but the sacristan fainted in ' arms. Spinursa supported him, and took him a seat ; and, notwithstanding the opposition of officers, took off his own cloak, and covered him wi it. lie was then led out of the church, seated in la chair, and blindfolded. Before receiving the fallal shot, he exclaimed, 'Liberty for ever !' the signal *as then given, and he expired without a struggle." ' UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. OPT MAGNETIC TIEIGMAPI.) Croon oh ova coaassoomoso LIVERPOOL, TVUDAY. The City of Baltimore, Commander Leitch, passed Holyhead at 9.30 a.m., and is expected in the river about 3 o'clock this afternoon. She was to leave New York on the 2nd inst. The Corriere Ma male of Genoa states that her Beitasaio 11Nasty Ins mat M. Vilma* Rebut& *geld medal Ili el he the delkelics ef Wa " - Coate as Jfaustien" (bens et the Itilkuu), wide% wee for the Ant time played is the Crises by the Bwilaisa Mama, end mach appisieled by the aflfed amiss. The - kenitets; dr Waranaberg aasaaaase that a *moth* vas elped oa the llth betweea the soverammt of Wararaberg Nal the Holy Bee. _ _ To appear the al;rei oared in Modena by the hoohlt of the solvate( duke, the goverramist b isamot It wawa7 to tomtit to the did( Jona as article re. retsdatithe tehebiteate net by the tu, et @nein tree ties, tb. Duchy, is the event al the estleetios el the raga* Oink, wail AM mei isligasmitaL THE OVERLAND MAIL. INDIA. We hare received our advice" by Ortolan& Mail rid ?daredllca, of date—Bombay, March 19 ; Cal cutta, March 7 i and Madras, March 14. The news that peace with Persia was probable had reached Bombay from Calcutta, sad had led to a suspension of some of the warble preparations. The 3rd European Regiment, which was to have embarked on the 18th of March, was suddenly halted at Rhonda's by electric telegraph assmage from Cal cutta. The dockyard had also ceased to en gage any more teenage. Any reduetion in the scale of the expedition must be regarded with satisfaction, for es the Bombay Times caku haw at the present moment the small force in Pala and the troops on the way must entail an ex penditure of half a million sterling a month. Ms Calcutta Harkara thus notices the mutinies sij which mention was made in our telegraphic ISM airy:—" Some time ago the native troops at Bar rackpore exhibited considerable excitement in con sequence of an idea which prevailed among them that their cartridges were greased with beef suet testae& of mutton fat, it being pollution for a Hin thms ill bash the former; after a time they were con visaed they had been deceived in the matter, and quietly returned to their former habits of obedience and discipline. A bad feeling has since arisen among the men of the 19th Native In fantry, at Berhampore, who, we understand, were by last accounts is a state nearly approaching mu tiny, but fortamately the corps of Irregular Cavalry at the same station continues loyal, and is prepared to support their officers in any measures the com mander-in-chief may see fit to adopt for the purport of coercing the mutineers into obedience. A rest portion of the sepoys of the Bengal army are native, of Oude, where their familie . • still reside, and an absurd rumour prevails that the recent unpleasant names we have mentioned have been occasioned by the intrigues of certain discontented people con nected with that country, but the ideals thoroughly preposterous." The Rajah of Rapoortliala has established a school . . . in his capital, where English, Persian, Hindi, Our moski, and Urdoo languages are to be taught. His highness has. made arrangements to give 2,000 rupees a year for the support of the institution. The gene ral management of it has been Owed in the hands of the Rev. Golucknath, of the American Mission, at JuSunday. This is the Brat attempt of the kind that has ever been made by a Sikh Sirdar is Punjanb. Shetanee Herkooverbaee, one of the widows of the late Huttising Reehrising, of Ahmedabad, has offered to devote, by investing in the Government Four per Cent. Loans, a sum of 12,000 rupees for the permanent endowment of a female school in that city, and farther to construct, at her own expense, a building for the accommodation of the school. The govern- went has gladly accepted the munificent proposal, and has conferred upon this lady, and also upon She tanee Ruckmanibsee, a gold medal as an acknow ledgment of their public spirit. . . The Madras Atheneum publishes the following letter from Lucknow of February 19th You will probably hear rumours of a disturbance at Fyiabad. You may rely on the following being a correct statement of what occurred. On Monday evening, a fanatic Faqueer, with a gang of armed men, established himself in a semi in Fysabad, and, addressing the mob, informed them that his mission was the destruction of the Feringlases. They were informed by one of the public officers that carrying arms in the city by bodice of men is prohibited, and their swords demanded. They not only refused, but, when he advanced, drew their swords upon him, so that he was obliged to retire. The military police were brought up, and were with difficulty prevented from attacking the party at once. Guards were posted, sad a company of sepoys came from the cantonments and surrounded them. On the following morning, the Deputy. Commissioner tried in vain to persuade them to give up their swords. They remained seated in a veran dah with their swords in their hands. The leader of the party would listen to no persuasion, though be was promised that, if they would submit, they should not be sent to the prison, nor suffer any indignity ; but, having drawn their swords on a British officer and excited the populace, they must submit to be tried on this charge. The Moulvie declared they might take his head ier corpse, but that he would not surrender alive. It was proposed to rush upon and secure them when relieving the guard, which was stationed within a few yards of them. It was intended that the guard of fourteen men, When the word march was given, should Hash on them without fixing bayonets. Whether they suspected the plan or not, or a moment's delay alarmed them, is not certain, but they made a furious attack on the sepoys, some of them with a sword in each hand. The officer in command of the guard and three sepoys were wounded, the officer severely ; three of the fanatics were killed, five much wounded, and four taken unhurt. The Moulvie was slightly wounded, and taken to the regimental hospital, where he is supposed to be mad. He says he comes from the Cheen Pultun at Madras, but he is not a Madraasee. He and his followers had been visiting the tombs of the men killed in the re ligious quarrel just before the annexation. Our in formant adds, that this affair will probably be ex aggerated, and represented as an insurrection, but that the simple facts are as he has stated. It shows, however, what inflammable materials exist in this country, and ought to be a warning to those who prepare grimy cartridges, as well as those who in terfere with religious processions. This Muasulman Mr. Spurgeon had not sufficient time to excite the people as the English Moulvie does; if he had, the mischief would probably have been far greaten" " Vet) , little business" mays the Bombay Times, "has been Unelected in our import market daring the fortnight, owing lo the intervention of the HoolL holidays ; the money market has become consi derably easier, and the banks have lowered their rates of interest one per cent. all round; a further rise has taken place in 4 per cent. paper; and freights have advanced in value." PERSIA. THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION. Our news from %shire is to the Ist of March. The troops were in good health and the fortifications rapidly progressing at that date. The Persians were said to have assembled a second time in force at the foot of the hills, bat whether General Outrun would be diverted to attack them again was doubt ful. Provisions were plentiful, but dear, the camp being all but entirely dependent upon the commissariat for supplies. The following troops had left India since the lest Overland Mail, or were under orders' to embark, viz.: The Scinde Horse, from Kurrachee, 800 strong, under Brigadier-General Jacob, and H.M. 14th Light Dragoons, 800 strong, from Bom bay. These two regiments would bring up General Outram's cavalry force to nearly 2,000 sabres. The artillery had been strengthened by the despatch of the 3rd company of the 2nd battalion : and the 7th and 26th Regiments Bombay Native Infantry and the lit Madre' Fusiliers were under orders to embark without delay. The 3rd Bombay Europeans had been held back at the point of embarkation. On the embarkation of the troops at Bushire, the Bombay Times remarks: "At the date of our last advice', which bring our intelligence down to the let inst, rapid preparations were being made to embark the chief part of the force at Bashire, for an expedition to the river Kanto. It is here that Persia is vulnerable, and here only, and the men who have been speculating on an advance upon Shiraz, Up:than, and Tehran, are alto gt:ther at sea. The Baran, which falls into the gulf just after its junction with the waters of the Tigris at Mohammerah, is a noble stream, navigable for at least two hundred miles, and flowing through ono of the most fertile districts of Persia. We find from the Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society that so far back as 1842, Lieutenant Selby tracked its course in the little steamer Assyria,which formed part of the Euphrates expedition, as high up as Shuster. There are several considerations which leave no doubt whatever as to the intentions of General Outrun. Boshire is as notorious for sick ness in the hot season as Mohammerah is for its salubrity, the contrast it forms in this respect to the neighbouring city of amoral' being most remarkable. Lieutenant Selby attributes the fact to the waters of the /Enron, which he says maintain their native coolness at its very mouth where the Tigris, rolling through burning sands in its course, is quite hot. Mohammerah is further admirably placed as a military post, and may be rendered almost impregnable in the hands of a British force. As a base of operations, the importance of its acquisition can hardly, therefore, be exaggerated; and we are waiting with some impatience to hear that it is in our possession. It is accessible at all times to ships not drawing more than eighteen feet water; and of late we have been rejecting all tonnage for the transport service of heavier draught than this. Not only, however, is Mohammerah important as a very strong military post, a seaport, and a sanitarium, but it is in the midst of abundant supplies, and at the very entrance into one of the main arteries of the country. Flat-bottomed boats may easily transport our boats up to Shuster, and here, within a hundred and ninety miles of the capital, Ispahan, we find a second position of such military strength, that, according to Selby, defences of a very slight character will render it quite un assailable by any force. The importance of this place under these circumstances can hardly be exaggerated. Its possession will give as a arm footing in the very heart of the country, from which we cannot be driven, where supplies are inexhaus tible, while our communication with our base will be easy, rapid, and safe, and whence our retirement at any time msy be made at our convenience." The following are the letters of the correspondent of the Bombay Times: BUSMAN, Fn. 19. By the mail taken down in the Precuraor on the lath, I had the eatisfiction to furnish you with • copy of the field order detailing the services and hardships endured by the troop, and the moons of our arms in the amid opposed to those of hie Highness the King of Kings. General Sir James Outram has given greeter effect to his appreciatice of those terries. by the isms to melt soldier oomposing that expedition et a pair of boots. Soldiers ere ambitions and glory to see their deeds acknowledged by their commander and their country, and the substantial reward of a pair of boots, whose con is four rupees, to urea whose menus are very limited—and to wheel the replacing the boots wont out on the march would have can them privationa that they could ill afford in this dear country, isjudiolous and ap propriate. So you see that in the course of centuries the warned the warrior's gaining his spurs has descended to his seining his boots. Poor Hoolasia Khan, the Chimed Boras joon, is still a prisoner in the Charboorj keinerly graced as the domicile of the Debris Semi, and now used as a depot for the reception al ship lumber sad heavy ordnance stores. It is to be hoped that all that is mid about this captain's treatmsat is not true. If, as I hear, he is only allowed Ave same for his and his servants' support, the medium, to my the least, is harsh, and not even justified by his attempting te lied our army astray. Is it not anneal for man to have • parkin spark, notwithstanding his cupidity will not permit him to refuse our pay and glittering bribes I' I see the trial of the well-known merchant Malcolm has bean entrusted to an ea-politkel d some note, Brigadier Trendy= of the seta- Ley. It is repelled that some of the =anthem of war, particularly the led band at Berudoon, were shipped by Mr. Woolen stns the ermerler of the fort. The penalty attending the Mae under investigation, nonacid under the authority of General Stalker, when Captain lease first sus pected that contraband goods erne leaving this pert, we death, but it la hoped, for the sake of therespmgable potion that Mr. Maud. Ma maintained for so may pus, that he will be *his to clear himself of &dune so him' to his repu tation for friendship to our government. Our sepoys are fed recovering the effects of their arduous march ; a good many were Worn into hospital during the ant three days, but it is surprhing to la how soon they rally and return to their work. The Eurumens have stood it well. Fez. 23. If all the rumours current in camp of late were recorded, the writer would be compelled to give you a long detail of the rateable terms come to by the Euro pean powers at the late conference of Para, how the Russians marled to every propealtien pat for ward, and of the deepatches received from Lead Stratford de Ralclife from Constantinople; then follows the embarka tion of troops for Mahatma, then a maims from the Shah that he had despatched a general plenipotentiary to Sir las. Ontram with the sword in his right band, hacked by 20,000 men, and an olive branch in his left, either of which our chief might accept as he pleased; and now the strenuous en allots, of the engineers in erecting batteries et every salient point, end the eppearance of Murata gradate of heavy gene ranged in line in our main street, ready to be placed in petition ; the tumours are certainly favourable to a speedy conclusion of hostilities, but facts concur in pointing to • steady determination to be prepared for accidents, and it is well to be prepared, for the ancient practice of the Highlands of analog the country at the sign of bonfire. seems to be understood here; and of late close observers have noticed the signal at play on the bills. Of one thing, however, the Shah-in-Shah may be sure, that our General and his army, Eke weighs, will not be found asleep. We have had bitter cold weather of late, with occasional showers to add to our misery. Provisions are getting dreadfully deer, and I think it in time that something should be done by either increasing the pay or throwing in some live stock from Bombay, Mr mime, or Muscat, to relieve the damth. Only fancy two rupees being paid for a fowl, eggs are not procurable, and nothing but mutton every day is sickening. I see one of the enterprising Bombay Parsee* has opened a shop in the fort at very reasonable charges of 250 per cent. profit on his goods. The Hata. Mr. Manny is off in great haste to Burcash with a company of the Light Battalion; be embarked under the salute doe to his position at noon to-day. FzE. 24. It is some pleasure to have a libeml general to germ order, end some satisfaction to servo under one who has the power to do ocessional good oaken By • may stroke of his pea air Jams has this day exempted the whole form from peony an letters and newspapers to seaports on the Indian coast. This ie really kind end considerate when you think bow 'aptly • mil from Bombay is looked for, renived, end devoured. It is a shuns to Rod that they see so far between. I have just seen a proclamation c the Shah in the Murals retorts, whereto be complains that hostilities were com menced before war was declared. He admits that a coolness existed between her Britannic Majesty's government and himself, but that he had despatched a plenipotentiary to Constantinople to treat with our ambassador there. He complains of a print from the Indian govern ment bdag the only intimation he received of the cow renamed of war, and declares that he was Marty unpre pared to mist, in fact, that he had not given say inatrnc thaw to resist the landing of our SNOW on the shores of Iran. His Maisety of Pada rye nothing of Fence, so that we may expect before very many months are over our heads to breathe the awe idr with his ampot Istgbasus. Pan 2e. The headless bodies of two natives ha4s Jan been go, arrara g D am camp. This Is rather swinge air the amp kg m e kept em wigglers ; it is indeed no mernefair pass the cavalry advanced pickets unperceived. ay en* so that the matadors am only be attributed la pined cep wity—en investigation is being held on the maw. /;., have been prohibited riding beyond the cantry plea without Ann obtaining leave. This is a w h c ,6 0 . 4 regulation, as it not only mese lee the,, eg o will not we for themselves, bet Illiewlee me i * the chance of neighbouring villagete bag WNW ; bgts latter prectuttket, however, no resew be bra gawk de / do not suppose that en army less lisped le Mend* p i , harbor was ever before collected. ?Mr Uwe po st inspected the cavalry on their panda grand the end. before laat, end yesterday afternoon he went over the be finery. Before closing, I mum press you to advocate claims of this force on the generosity of the lodise amellen, Boarathing is the shape of edibles most be mat ale , adiks soon, doe the natives in particuler now pay a repel her* seen of dour, the same for six seen of rice, font sass pee lb. for miserable mutton, and nit dab of the pewit vlanip tion (wortnah) two and these annas each. Tap is always procnrebkt, so that the oommlawriat is auk turned Into an Indian bazaar, whence everything mellg mum be obtained. Something met be how, re • wee mot into the interior, or shift of port of the ken lei spot, may be looked upon as • certainty Was long. MAIM 1, 4 pat. The authorities have just announced that a mull will b eked at eight this evening for Bombay per Arthur td Gnat ; Meador* hasten to scrawl over a few linen ek, you may think me asleep. Of newe I have none, if I nap the embarkation of the—who do you think ? Thee lie sergesats, es you see that tho embarkation of the troops i t Mallows is dandily progressing. The waggons of the la Scoop Horse Artillery have been put on board the Lis hi remeeal to the shipping ; the work cannot, however, be rea peen/ with owing to the sharp north-wen teen* the bee bee pinked for sonic days raising up • diagram* egg bileaggni laicism& The small plots ofgraes that yoked As Oaks vitt return been Bressjoon have disappears:lmM! lbeembillesgs of moving sand. Peace is spoken of. hop prebbmalemal that people should expect what they nig WWII; aei peen limy be concluded for aright woken, bevtirew, le widatt, that whatever oar ape* Wee Whelsesr aer ebbe% we we preparing Paelbaliew are be serleseled at the poets molt am te Meet. Two half swam leberisa, to be mounted with II priser isms, are babe dorm np south of the ono, • M the swam wrath • Malakkoff is mektag • appearaweem spit arlestly called masonry tower by Owing A geed deal of forage has been dowel la pane kb our amp during the last two or three days, no willitemding it is well known that the enemy hue igen collected in great force at Bresejoon. A movement in tint direction is again whispered, but no one knows the gem. Tars intentions, be is no babbler. His thoughts be keep to himself till he has matured his projects, and gives he seders nalcient time to be executed sad no more. Oren efforte ere being made to preserve deenlinen in amp, and the exertions of the oaken of the Qesnaresseter. One al's departments are very elective end pair worthy. We have Ind some practice with the Boca. tan train during the lan two eveniegs, to mania the velocity of light of the leadea balls after the bursting of tho spherical cap. The malt hae been way eatisfactory, I believe, 28 balls out of 60 having pew tested a 2-inch jungleplank target 10 by 8, Ind at 500 yardn the shell bursting between 40 and 50 rads to front, ad shout 2D above the horizontal line. The cold still ocannee to be lett, nearly all complain of coughs, and the nether d lick is materially drawing. The Pays states that the news of the armistice between Persia and England reached the EngMk general commanding the Bushire expedition, ca March 9. This paragraph relates to the commie which was signed before the definitive treaty d Pte• TURKEY. (nom ors OWN COMIZIPONDINT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Aran The European commissioners to inquire into ths best mode of improving the channel between the Danube and the Black Sea have already commenced their labours. Which arm of the river is to la adopted, whether the Salina or the St. George alb St. Andrew, is not yet settled ; hut it is thawing that the St. George's channel will be the one Ant upon. They have built houses at Toultcka far ths several member of the commission and their attar. ants, and an engineer has left for the Duchy d Here to engage 2,000 families as labourer The Turkish government is to pay all present and future expenses, which are to be repeil by a toll on vessels ; the toll itself and the charge for pilotage to be fixed by the commissioners at nth a rate that both interest and capital shall be grs dually paid off. The &rmarabian district, annexed to Moldavia by virtue of the famous Peace of Paris, has been take rion of by the Moldavian government 7k assi e la who formerly lived there have all retire and what inhabitants still remain are Bulgur* Greeks, and a very few Wallachians. As for band where the inhabitants are mostly Russians, have all retreated, and the place is almost deserted. The Sardinian war-steamer the Amphion arrived here, and is going on to Galatz, where Si to be stationed and to be at the disposal of the Ss dinian commissioner, M. Bensi. The steamer se moat enthusiastically greeted at Messina by the it habitants. At Birkilisi there has been a revolt in a hum where the fair dames declare they will no leer pay obedience to harem laws, and announce to M paella their intention of adopting the Frankish as tame for the future. _ _ _ Could this reform become universal, Turkeywal be saved; for children are brought up and taugbtt first by women, and as Turkish women profess c present no real knowledge whatever, what sort d education must they have inculcated hitherto in th minds of the Ottoman youth }la Majesty the Sultan, it is said, has made apw sent to the English government of the ground a which the Casino di Pera is built, but where a English church and hospital are to be constructed. The site is an excellent one. _ . There has been another act of piracy in our boar. A Dutch brig, ander the command of Ca • Niew-Zwag, was at anchor close to the corner o Seraglio ; a boat crept up, with seven pirates in • and they climbed up the deck. There was only cabin-boy on the look-out, and possibly , his e were very heavy. He was felled to the deck by villains, but his cry alarmed the captain, who was supper with his mate, and who instantly stole up, caved the armed pirates, and returned to his es fo: rst i t ti:rrpose °farming himself. One of the band p him with his uplifted yataghan, crying out " Moneta," but the captain had seized a pistol, and replied with a shot that wounded the pursuer. The pirate struck out, but had his hand cut off by the mate's cutlass. Roused by the report of the the seamen sprang upon the deck, and, although attacked by the pirates, after a desperate oa filet, in which the cook and two of the sailors re ceived several wounds, the crew gained the upper . hand. A parley ensued, and the pirates demands' the body of their comrade, whom they thought slain, and the captairi answered their demand wounding another with a second shot. Theyjami into their boat, the captain sounded the alarms the gang have again escaped without leaving trace of their whereabouts. The bravery of the captain and his crew cannot be too highly praised; but it is lamentable to think that no security can ht obtained in these waters unless by the constant lance of the captains and their own crews, for government seems powerless to arrest these pintos A letter from Calcutta says:—" The Meths* of Gwalior, the chief of the Mahratta princes, is on aAI to Cskutta. He is an irascible, self-willed lad, very Bid to manage. He went the other day dokrn the river WWII the Fort (Bowater milk On hie way he was partied* boastful until he passed the house occupied by the Eli Oude. The eight sobered his in an instant, and his MME I eiviliaation Instantly increased. Ile has been wall edwari but MOM falling back to the true native style of 11* 81 thought. In England there is great sympathy for thew WI In India it seems homble that a boy of this deacrifil without principle or restraint, should exercise by oar 10 1 power of lib and death over some millions of people."