The Express. — London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

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A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," sustaining the results of the day's Rams, is pub lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. Or the Qt•EEtt'S three memorable visits to three of our principal centres of industry—Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds—each has a marked charac ter of its own. The Manchester Exhibition of Art was a wondrous achievement of the accumulated wealth, and of the prompt energy in carrying resolves into action, which characterise the capital of the cotton districts. It was the work of the " cotton lords"—of men proud of their wealth, proud of their taste for art, self-reliant even to an excess. Aston Hall is • combined achievement of the capitalists and the workmen of Birmingham. Among the indm► trious chimes of the great iron distrist around Birmingham there is—owing to the ebb cumstancs that so many work in their own house* —a more developed individuality of character than in the same classes in and around Maw chaster. The men are not so entirely workers's ' Mr. This's or Mr. That's mill, and more TM. Dlcu, and MARRY with their personal peen- I liaritiee. A great number of small masters, too, are found in Birmingham and its vicinity mingling with the great ones ; whereas in the cotton districts it is • few mammoth capitalists floating about on the waves of a proletariats ocean. Aston Hall is • per manent institution for the enjoyment of all down to the lowliest ; it was the conception of working men, and its completion was to no trivial extent the result of their contributions. The Exhibi tion at Manchester was, on the other hand, a great but ephemeral effort on the part of the local millionaires to prove that they had se much wealth and as mach taste as " the upper ten thou- " sand." In the great Leeds celebration, to lend • finishing grace to which her MAJESTY WAS illTiEltik the predominant expression seems to us to haw been the community's consciousness of its own poli tieal importance. This feeling speaks out in the Address of the Cor poration. Her MAJESTY is reminded of the mag nificence of the powerful Municipalities of Italy and the Netherlands, the memory of which has stirred the emulation of Leeds ; and • hint is thrown out respecting the destinies which await the town. "We venture," so runs the document, "to hope that so excellent a judge as " your MAJESTY may find something to approve in " the Hall in which we are now for the first time " assem►led, and may be well pleased to see a " stirring and thriving seat of English industry " embellished by an edifice not inferior to these " stately piles which still attest the ancient °paktum; " of the great commercial cities of Italy and Flaw " den. For the mere purposes of municipal govern., " meet, • less spacious and costly building might " have sufficed. Bat in our architectural plans we " have borne in mind the probability that, at no " very distant time, civil and criminal justice may " be dispensed to an extensive region in this town, " the real capital of the West Riding. We were " also desirous to provide a place where large " assemblies might meet in comfort to exercise their " constitutional right of discussing public questions. to listen to instruction on literary and phileiso " phical subjects, or to enjoy innocent amusements." While these words were penetrating into the ears of our Sovereign, there were objects meeting her gaze which went far to account for and justify this political self-consciousness of the good burghers of Leeds. In one of the recesses of the hall stands • colossal statue of the late EDWARD BAINES, in the act of addressing an assembly. The late representative of Leeds was a 'elf-made man. By his talents—and still more by his regulated continuous industry, his spotless integrity, and his genial benevolence—he made himself a position as the proprietor and editor of one of our most ably conducted English journals. As the conductor of a liberal journal his whole career was ementially political ; and hie public vir tues were appropriately rewarded by the confidence of his fellow-citizens, unmistakeably expressed in their chokes of him to be their representative in Parliament. Near the base of this statue her MAJESTY also maw the two distinguished eons of the diseemeed; Mr. MATTHEW TALBOT BAlNES—under the Waig Ministry, President of the Poor Law Board, and subsequently Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and Mr. EDWARD BAINES, alike distinguished for his public servises in pro moting free trade, asserting the oanse of civil and religions liberty, and diffusing educition. From the public oMoss he has filled, Mr. TALBOT llama is known to all who take an iatereet in Builide politics ; his brother enjoys, it may be, t•ese at • local celebrity, but from his sound judgment mad extensive acquirements exercises perhaps MINI MIN inflames is public affairs. These who attended the earlier meetings of the Anti-Corn-Law Delegates is London can not have forgotten a touching scene thetaa curved at one of their meetings. Mr. EDWARD BAINES I along with three colleagues—of whose RICHARD COBDEN and JOSEPH PriTaGa were two—was charged with the preparation of the business for each meeting, of the drafts of 'Admen, &o. Some difference of opinion having on one occasion arisen in this Committee, Mr. BAINES prepared an elaborate exposition of his views for a general meeting. The paper was remarkable for the amount of detailed in !amebas, and for the broad and massive maser in which the whole was made to tell on his audience. By seem accident Mr. Batten, seniOr, was pretreat while it was being reed ; and his pleased and proud expression of cJuntenance as he witnemsd the attention with which his son's words were hung upon, went far to divert the atten- Milems THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858. tics of many from the business in hand. The position of them two brothers among their fellow citizens, in their Town Hall, is closely analogous to that of two " Conscript Fathers' m old Rome, whose family could bout of ancestral statue.. By their own merits the BAINIS family have been enrolled ' among those who exercise a powerful inflame, for good over the destinies of their country. With the statue of the de►d man, and with his two living descendants near its base, before them, bow could the men of Leeds fail to be conscious of the power of that class to which they belong ? We have no desire to see England governed by its towns, in the sense in which such an expiration was once, we believe erroneously, attributed to Mr. Commie. We can feel the moral and irsthetical beauty of the peculiar character of our English landed aristocracy, and should regret to see them jostled said, entirely. But we do desire to see the great industrial element of society, which is developed most healthily in our large towns, asserting its own consequence in our political world. The aristocracy of England could never have been what it is had it not been continually absorbing "new men" into its circle. In former ages London was the main con tributor of this new blood. The GRESHAM in an older, and the WALPOLE'S in • more recent time are instanoes of this. But the growth of manufactures, the de velopment of the trade of the out-ports, and the connecting links of the Railway and the Tele graph, have made the whole kingdom a London in this respect. Though we deprecate the over-master ing of the Landed Aristocracy by the Towns, we are right glad to think that the Towns must henceforth stand on an equality with them. The study of the peculiar characters of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, and Sheitleld—of Dublin and Belfast— of Glasgow and Edinburgh, will henceforth be of equal importance to those who aspire to 'way the rod of empire, with the study of the characters of the heads of our Great Houses. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India, has appointed Sir George Raman Clerk, K.C.8., and Mr. Henry Baillie, M.P., to be Under-Secretaries of State ; and Mr. Jame Como Melvill, late Deputy- Secretary to the East India Company, to be Aa siatant-Under-Secretary of State. THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAPH. MESSAGE FROM HER MAJESTY. At the inauguration of the opening of the line at Jersey, on Tuesday, the following telegraph message was forwarded by Mr.Aubin, constable of the island, through the Hon. Mr. Walpole, to her Majesty : " The Directors of the Channel Islands Telegraph Company, on behalf of the people of the islands, solicit that you may be pleased to lay before her most gracious Majesty this the first message con veyed by their telegraph. Though the establish ment of thiv means of rapid communication with the mother country is an event of minor importance to the empire at large, it is one of heartfelt satisfaction to her Majesty's loyal end devoted subjects here, as tending to draw still closer the bonds which for nearly one thousand years have licked these islands to the crown of England, and more firmly to secure that connexion, the foundation of their liber ties and their prosperity, and which like their fore fathers they would deem no sacrifice too great to preserve. " Jersey, Sept 7." Tier Majesty returned the following gracious answer by telegraph : " Rolyrood Palace, Tuesday night, Sept. 7. " The Queen has received with the highest satis faction the announcement of the suooemthl comple- tioa of a telegraphic Channel Islands, and while her Majesty congratu lates the directors of the Channel Islands Tele graph Company upon their success, she rejoices is ass more rapid means of communication and the Glaser connexion thus happily established with a portion of her dominions hitherto locally separated, but always united to her crown by a spirit of un swerving loyalty unsurpassed in any part of them, and of which the message just transmitted on be half of the people of the islands contains a very gratifying expression." A telegram received from Jersey, dated Wednes day afternoon, states that her Majesty's reply had ceased great enthusiasm in the islands. The line is to be opened to the public to-day (Thursday). The cable, manufactured by Newall and Co. at Birkenhead, is of the size of the shore end of the Mediterranean cable, but with ends in a propor tionate degree thicker. It starts from Church Bay, Portland, and rests in depths of water varying from 33 to 40 fathoms, as far as the island of Alder ney, which has been fixed upon as the first station. At this point the French coast is only nine miles dis tant, and Cherbourg is plainly visible. From Alderney the cable stretches to a point on the north-west coast of Guernsey, and cronies that island to St. Peter's Port, where there isa station in the guard-house, nearly upon a level with the sea. It than runs to Cape Groans, and is landed upon a sandy beach—a matter of no small importance in an island so begirt with rocks as Jersey. Between eight and nine miles of underground work brings the line to St. Helier,. The station is situated at the corner of the Grand Square. A considerable trade already exists between the Channel Islands and St. Main, Granville, and other places on the French mat. An extension in that direo tics' would afford to Normandy and Brittany the facilities of communication which are now denied to them. A message of twenty words from England to say of the towns in those provinces is now charged from 124. 91. to 14s. Bd. The charge for a rososag• of like length front London to Jersey is 6a. with -the MR. DISRAELI AND VIZ MOIDITDO HERALD. —Ths mieheedol eady jeered this day biglee a wise of mew main ea tho Warm weedier, el the Bight Boa. =t of the Bithequer. Prom tar ssuipis elf whin morning it till be ceikediedi GM die eel& of the Nieed4 ado bog oedeitakes whs. beadle dde eoweeleme idee imepede" of Yr. Dimon swabs io "At we to Me eidder. Dorroirls.; from Mr. Dfineell seimehee Awed treserlltheele boibs lie weefelese eleemeed Ur. that "bb Wed is **V la lie bee aew , Mein Moms, of Ns east* of 'Wooer Nol did "kb. BM, le tip mime both of pd sae le%le eetestde sad olvkL cowl% bay se =kw es is st Om& all the thas-bossartoi ecosoosks by which WO SSA !he reek them oil Sod tistulait a ildiai liisitoisitarbyper ,,, bee Ws boa asi beasasas *AU is IRA 00 as swat posisst alessimi is ibe mom Mid dYu sm. Ws Ise I% st eisllsst= bobilisalslissi band d bis tomb is Win la inywleey." Assam at els maps amiss the elelli liss. serississ rasprottstly. to Ills soma, Max W:ens awl nmeta. Reragimbe, , Mir "Ilviag balled • badge at par" • attacked by plembea. Ilbskepear• sad ff h. mil . good Rally saw sop rid pram" brides w ooer sessarass as hi Wetted Mla es Iblistrisi aentence .—" R. tad greM la kis mayor isitsilsble"stili=k Lis assissat—tbst I* ss el lay ••• rims at abossbar, le edit poleilly ; sills Is samils, bin Mass wilds illsiseirvisiss dtselsi Assn imssissl 0. .t sad stimilpshits: Tb• bask emposially noticed Grey" tibia is dto " stosid Is W ibramed task sir tits *gird ssidsrams al our Use." TM LORD CRAINTILLOR IN CIIIIITINMAIM.— Lard mad Lady Obeliaahrd, wllit dr as Thealger, as 4 Uwe Res. MOS Thifalffit. witted la ma Saturday list Rem Malvern, cm . Melt t• Iss4 As et blaatptilar Ltalga. Oa Tuesday its lemeW at the seat at tbs Rislit nos. es Eat at Blissbarosik,Z is s Aw days sill, vs usesslasm St Isaias to Übe Ingo at Ids se, Nt lIMIMOILIbb iliMlia Dasossr, wits is about is Mat fee ladia.—ClieMaabitm Jkleasiso.. LOMDON COMMON COVIICIL.—A mosey in the Clay el Leedom Coimbra Ca.cll boa aoserral by tits assilt of Hr. Jetsam Rowlaad Carr. Mr. Can sigrussisi as vont a Diebopeasta upwards d !0 yam A New Cusick'. Si :I.—The Mari of bat sight it sob* pass distasery. It list Om anis sissy Is lite away ban km moo at arabsrarvr i ms . sf i r Joiw sw tr eu rs=tf ; mt soriabssat—it IS; allassaly baits), sad raft Sisslosss is its effects apes the mow arc at tbs EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mug ova OWN col mitr.) PAU'S. Wanmramay Evsyngo. The Nord and the Inclipandessiee Beige were salved to-day o• account of their containing the will of the Duchene of Orleans in the French language. The moat severe orders have been given to the French press not only to abstain from reproducing the will or any extract thereof, but to refrain from alluding to it in any way whatever. The march which the Press, contrived to steal upon the go vernment by publishing a part of the will last night has caused very great annoyance, and the question of visiting the Praise with some punishment has been discussed. Although in what the Preens printed there was not a word to which objecion ' could be taken, it is felt that the blanks were ter ribly suggestive, and must have greatly excited public curiosity. But the misfortune is, that to give a warning to the Press' would only serve to call public attention all the more to an historical document which it is wished—blindly and hopelessly swished—to blot out from French history. I have very little doubt that within a few days the papers will be authorised to print the will, and that tho government writers will be ordered to write aitieles, proving that it is not of a nature to produce the slightest effect upon public opinion in imperial Frans'. But what a severe task will be imposed upon their rhetorical powers when they shall be expected to do away with the moral effect of the abject fear now exhibited by the advisers of the crown at a few words from a woman's grave. The Michela of Orleans died in the belief that " Constitutional France" will yet be restored lo her " dignity and liberty," and this strong government is afraid to let Frenchmen know that such we, her hope and faith ! The town of Poitiers is in a state of considerable commotion on account of a state prosecution which is expected to come on for hearing very shortly. M. de Carson, formerly the principal editor of a now extinct journal, the Abeille, M. de Manly, a young man of noble lineage, and three working men of Poitiers, are accused of having acted in a manner calculated to trouble the public peace, by drawing up and sending to the Count de Chambord a letter on the occasion of his fite. This is the first instance of a prosecution, under Art. 2, of the Public Safety Bill, which is directed against " manoeuvas in foreign countries." If the defendants should be convicted, they will be liable to imprisonment fur a period of not less than two, nor more than twelve months ; bat they will, moreover, be for the rest of their lives beyond the pale of common law, and liable to be imprisoned, interne, or transported without trial. A club in Poitiers, which was frequented by legitimists, hu been closed by the Prefect. M. Loon Chevreau, the Prefect of the Srrthe , has issued a circular, dated "Le Mans, Septembre 6," which seems intended to extenuate the bad effect produced by his former circular of July 30, against the hawking of Protestant Bibles. Re now says that his circular was directed, not against the book, but against the sale of it by particular individuals. Re admits that the Protestant Bible is a " moral publication" which does not trangrees the " reasonable limits of relig , - ous controversy " and is not of a nature to " it finite men's minds and awaken passions which are not of our epoch." But he says the intention of the go vernment is to prevent the distribution of this book by "foreign societies having considerable resources at their command." Although, therefore, the public outcry on the subject has produced a notable midge , fiat' of the Sarthe circular, it will be seen that the hope expressed by the Debate, that M. Leon Chev rean might be brought to show as much toleration towards Protestants as the Emperor of China has agreed to accord to them, is not yet realised.' A report that Ranavallo, the Queen of l'tfadagas ear, is seriously ill, is considered important because the hostile attitude lately assumed by a part of the population of that island towards the French and English is attribcted to the Queen's personal feeling. The Bourse has today been decidedly heavy, but the efforts of the speculators for the fall were not able to realise any very serions change in quotations. The Rents closed at 72fr. 10c. for act:fount, with a fall of 200. and lbc. Mobilier fell bfr. The Southern Railway rose Ilfr. 25c. The other lines were from 2fr. boa to bfr. lower. M. Foald, Minister of State, has arrived in Paris from Vichy, in improved health. Prince Michael Stourdza, candidate for the post of hospodar of Moldavia, has arrived in Paris from Baden, to personally support, it is said, his can didattehip. Count Walewaki and the Countess Vialewaka arrived at Biarritz on Monday. A letter from Bayonne, of the ith, oar : The day before yesterday, the oeremooy of giving the religions benediction to the hat works of the new jetty and barrage took place In peewees of the Emperor. These works, which were ordered by bin Majesty notwithstanding the nehvounible opinions given of the plans by several esiginsers of merit, have been, during the led year, carried on with greet rapidity, under the direction of U. Degnenet, the engineer who proposed them. The remits may be akeetly judged of, and there is every chance of com plete snorer. At noon all the selling and row boats of the poet were la requhitioa, Ailed with elegantly dressed pinta; all proceeding towards the bar, end • number of aareieges 'sneered et the eases thee the sawlp mak reed towards the sues point. Two theanters had been engaged, and took as lewd the make Itka of the town, the members of the Chamber of Comae% sad ether consti tuted bodies. At three o'oloolitheir Mokimiet antlaalta pro ended, without await, to the point of alemeoden ia two court carriages and four. The Emperor wen ts fa 'military warns, with the modes of the Legion at Nawser. Their Melasthe slighted on the shore, which wee crowded with people, sad proteeded le the extremity of the &diem of the vow jetty, mime they leek their seats under a annery, mend whirls were sessenbleit ell the authorities sad clew. The bishop delivered ea saber to the Emperor, sad his Majesty replied la a Jew words, which were received with theirs, afterwards emairrias the deooratios dike Labs of Ilonoar as M. Lefoat, a member of the ooaaoil•rsneral, sad on Y. Detrain, viol-president of the Chamber of Commeren After the religious onsegra of Mewing the ma sad a pot which was shoot to be drives, the stesafmerine meted as the spot was art In work, mad to a few minutes the par, radar the stroke of the powerful machine, soak several yards tato the grand. The Emperor, with the Empress on his rem, this drereadad from the raised platform its which they had been mated, went towards the misohies, and attentively sesmisad the dilknat works, and addressed questions to the engieser. After remaining an boor tad a half an the jetty, which as yet ally manse of a no& row of piles, with a temporary platform, sad vibrates at the heat of every wave, the Bm perm mod Impress returned to their elan" and proceeded to the Villa Easisis amidst toed mesa t' Vim Moment 1 Vire flarprestrice 1" THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Vienna states that the Csimakan of Moldavia, Prince Vogorides, has seat in his resig nation to Constantinople, wigging as his reason that the results of the Conference of Paris have responded so little to the hopes of the Routnains that au insurrection is to be feared. The letter, however, says that the real reason of the prince's resignation is that as the Conference bee decided that the future hospodar most be bona of Remain parents he, being a Fanariot, cannot become a can didate. The letter concludes by asserting that the sews ham this Principalities is satistestory, =Mat Primes Vogasidne /wire of an outbreak are what, TURKEY. A Constantinople letter in the Austrian Gazette gives the following u the address delivered by the Sultan in the Divan, when enjoining economy on the governors of provinces and other high digni taries : I appointed you to your offices in order to ensure the wel fare of my subjects, without distinction of form of worship or nationality. Bat I have found you negligent and unfaithful 'eremite, and many of you have not done your duty. I have been good to you, but you have made an thence ass of my kindness, you have trilled with my indulgence. Henceforth I shall be most severe, and whoever does not obey shall be chastised. The Sultana who lately died at Mecca is not the mother of the Sultan, as has been erroneously stated, but only one of the legitimate wives of the Satan Mahmond, his father. She had ,three children by that monarch, only one of whom is still alive. He has entirely retired from the world, and is one of the high dignitaries of the Musenlman religion. Accounts have been received from Constantinople to the lit. M. Tho;vend had left qn an excursion to Mount Athos. A partial modification had taken place in the ministry. Abdallah Pacha, the new seherif of Mecca, had been received by the Grand Vizir. The bombardment of Jeddah had produced an unpleasant impression on the Porte ; the Turkish government state that the satisfaction would have been more striking if the Turks had acted alone. The conclusion of the new loan has calmed the exchanges to go down materially. The son of Fusd Pacha had left Constantinopii with the ratifi cation of the convention relative to the Princi palities. The English consul at Jassy is dead. Prince Ohika was continuing to exert all his influ ence to obtain the poet of hospodar. The electoral struggle bids fair to he very sharp in Wallachia. A RIDB FROM BEYROUT TO BAALBEC AND DAMASCUS. No. lII._ Theft/attire establ shed at Kraye by M. Figou was the first attempt to introduce the European mode of silk-reeling in the Lebanon ; and its success has stitnulaled the erection of other mills, not only in that locality, but in various .other parts of the mountain. The Mature itself is a long building with a row of basins on either side, at the back of which is the line of reels set in motion by means of a single axle ; each being capable of disconnec tion, or of being " thrown out of gear," without in terfering with the movement of the other reels. Each basin is provided with two cocks, one com municating with a eold water pipe, the other with a steam pipe, so that the reeler c in regu late the temperature of the water in his basin by turning on one or the other. The hood of the workman is the thermometer ; and his judgment in that respect is of the highest importance, as the temperature of the water has much to do with the goodness of the hook of silk. Before the introduc tion of then prooesees, the silk of the Lebanon was reeled in the rude native fashion, and was unfit for the European market ; but a wonderful impetus has now been given to the trade, which is rapidly in creasing. The cocoons are brought from the sur rounding districts, directed of the outer coating of floes, and then stifled. This process destroys the chrysalis, which would otherwise speedily sat its way through its golden shroud and destroy the cocoon. The cocoons are placed in shallow trays, which are then arranged on a stage in a well-closed and small chamber ; steam is admitted, and in about a minute and • half the chrysalis is destroyed. The cocoons are then carried to the drying stage, a vast framework' of timber, open on every side and oovered wish a canvas roof. They are placed on shelves, made of canvas stretched loosely on frames, and the combined action of sun and wind soon absorbs the moisture, so that they may either be pressed and packed for ex palatial or taken to the filatwrs to be reeled. This latter process is probably familiar to most of your readers, and I will not therefore describe it; more especially as I found the minutire of the details, all having a value in the eyes of the reeler., varying considerably in the different establishments, to which I was admitted with great liberality, each file , terar offering me the eastern hospitality of pipes and coffee. But my soul was with the fleshpots of Egypt, for my repast of onions, bread, and chew, had long ago been converted into some of the articles with' hard names which the lecturers on the animal economy tell me go to constitute bone and muscle. The coffee and tobacco had sharpened my appetite, and I was thinking seriously of the means of decently getting at my reserve of provender, when my Cicerone suddenly uttered a " crrre (Dieu! why there is the padri and the pedrone." Sure enough two figures were risking their necks on the rough staircase down which our horses had scrambled some two hours or more previously, and in a few minutes M. Kova was greeted by all the staff of the mill, and as soon as he could disengage himself he came forward and welcomed us heartily. I am ashamed to confess that my first thought was that he must, like myself, be hungry, and that a meal was inevitable, sooner or later. My next was a Ins pleasing reflection, namely, that my chances of a bed were considerably diminished ; but a few minutes dispelled all anxieties on that score. It was impossible not to like his open joyous fen— and what a hospitable fellow he is! I found after wards that he was renowned for that virtue, and that Kraye was a pays de Cocarsta for all his ac qitaintance and frien d besides its being a locality from which no stranger was ever turned away. In a few minutes the place was alive; he the most active of the band, though he had only arrived from Rhodes that morning, and had come on from Beyroat without drawing bridle. The shutters were opened, bedding hunted up, and the state bedroom, all the worse for Its months of neglect, prepared for me. When in order, it was a charming, coquettish-looking room, full of quaint and curious kaicknacks, and, like every other part of the house, crammed with pictures. Where they all came from heaven knows, but the people of Beyrout believe that Figou and Kova discovered • treasure somewhere near Kraye, with heaps of gold and jewels, and curiosities without end. So they did ; it was the rich slopes of the valley of Ramana, and its mulberry-trees, and its streamlete ; and the " open sesame" of the cave was intelligent indastry. They have made the place thriving and prosperous, and taught the Arab boys and girls employed in the filatures, and through them their parents, the value of steady and judiciously applied labour. At last supper was served, but, hungry as I was, I was more delighted with my host and his talk than with the long-desired refreshment. How we laughed and chattered as we sat round the roughly equipped table. It was comical to hear M. Kova s lamenta tions at having to treat me eo roughly; for Kraye was not only fatuous for its hospitality, bat for the handsome style in which everything was done; for its plate and china; fur it cuisine and wines. One of the remarkable things was, that at all times nearly every article of food served at table was produced on the spot. I can answer for the excellences of the mutton and the fish, and the vegetables, as well as for some capital dry red wine, grown in front of the house. In fact, Kraye seemed to produce all the fruits and vegetables imaginable. Golden reinettes of fabulous dimensions and perfect flavour were produced at dessert, and the garden furnished strawberries, gooseberries, pears, several Kitts of apples, peaches, and all the fruits of the Levaut except dates, as well as salad herbs, and the ordinary table vegetables in profusion. None of these things were to be had at Beyrout except from the garden of a European ; but here was ()reef posi tive that they needed nothing but a little culture to become a new source of profit to the idle Arabi of the villages. My hest was effecting a similar rove- lution at Rhodes, where he had mounted a reeling mill, gorgeous with marble, the remains of ancient edifices, and where he had made himself a charming house of one of the old knights' residences, enriched with antiquities of all kinds which he had turned up in laying out his garden and clearing the court yards. I longed to accept his urgent invitation to go and see him and have a few days' exploration, for the country seems is be a complete mine of anti (pities which have lain undisturbed for centuries. On the morrow I was in the saddle by half-past six, and took leave of my amiable host, while — jet words were a lament for having treated me so badly, and an entreaty to come and have a proper re cept i o 4 at Rhodes to save his credit. As we turned into our road towards Fitment the whole of the lovely valley, with its picturesque masses of lime. stone cliffs in the foreground, lay before me. We were 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, and on the far horizon the hills of Cyprus were visible, while the low land of the sea shore, dark with olive trees, peeped through th e deep cleft of the hills. For some distance the ride was lovely, through green and cultivated fields and hollows, across numerous brooks that tumbled down the steep sides of the valley with incessant dash, and may, and music, while in front of us the Gelid Hamana—the mountain of Hamann—rose up Meek and bare, with large patches of snow clinging to its aides. At half an hour's ride from Brays I ob. served a seam of coal, about three feet thick, crop. ping out from the side of a perpendicular well of rock, and traces of iron were abundant, little trick, ling rills leaving a strong terruginona sediment as they stole along amongst the sedgy gram. An hoar or two more brought us to a point where one of the mimes of the Beyrout river shoots over a steep rook, forming • picturesque waterfall, and hurries away, clear and rapid, to the valley of Flamm At this point the character of the land. .cape suddenly changes, and behind a thorough chaos of limestone boulders and fragments an amphi. theatre of perpendicular rook' arose, puzzling me to imagine how we were to get out of the huge pit we were in. It was a strange and long journey to the top of the rocks, performed in a series of rig-zsg tacks among blocks of stone that often hid the mem bers of the cavalcade from each other; but there was no chance of losing the road, fortunately, and we happily escaped meeting any travellers coming the contrary way, or I know not how in some places w e should have contrived to pees. In case you ever try these mountain journeys in Syria, I ought to tell yoa that if you do not propose to slide over your horse', tail, you must, as you are expected by your animal to do, twist the mane round your left hand, and held on by it, for your horse's back vets into all mete of wonderful angles with the horizon. Just as we were getting to the top of the rock, I saw a sight which nearly made me slide off my horse with laughter, to the great alarm and wonderment of Yakoob. The muleteer Yountf had left his beasts to find their own way, and had gone on on foot. Lifting up my eyes, I saw the most wonderfully grave caricature of a face looking down upon me from a crag. It was the crupper of Youssurs little old donkey. On either side of the tail, two circles of the grey hair had been cut away for eyes, and epbrows had been manufactured in the same way. The tail hung down to represent the nose, and the breeching band answered for a mouth. It was the queerest sight imaginable, and the donkey seemed immensely proud of the decoration. He was a strange little brute, and insisted always on being at the head of the procession, and regaling the eyes of his friend the mule with the work of art I have described above. If by any chance he got into the rear of the cavalcade, he scrambled over walls, rocks, im possible or improper roads of all kinds, until he got into his right place again. I forget his name, but it was something very poetical, and Youssuf informed me that if I would fill his hide with silver mejidie„ I should give no more than his value ; which means, that he was probably worth twenty or thirty shil. lingo at the utmost. G. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN IN EDINBURGH. (From the Seotrosan.) Yesterday (Tuesday) evening, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with several of ths royal &Mr* eartved in Ediabargi, an their way to Belsneral. The seadng being unusually Aim, an immense caaoratreo at peopiallinaged the Quesn'everk fang before lie hour Haas ihr bet Keisity's arrival at KMdowb•nk station. Crow were oonspicaocui on various ports of the north side of the hill, and not • few clambered up to the summit of Arthur's slat, to get • btrd's-eye view of the scene below. The preparations at Mmdowbank were of the usual character. The aides of the staircase leading from the platform to the road IMO lined with • very choice collection of plants sad dowers, supplied from the nareary of Masons, Lawson and son. The steps, as also the central pert of the platform, were covered with crimson cerpedag. In front of the station were richly-ornamented haigiais of coloared cloth, the whole being ourmounted with • hwg• mown and the royal area. Oa either aide were lamps of abiasd glue, and four similar lamps of larger eta) were Azad skin the platform. Dstechrients of the 16th Lancers, Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade from Glasgow (numbering 200 meet), the Royal Owns: BIM* and the battery of Royal Artillery from Leith Fur; lined the road through the park from the station to Bolyrood, and were formed in position at half-paat six o'clock. In front of St. Margaret's motion was a guard of honour of the let battalion of the Rills Brigade, and the band of the 16th Lancers. Shortly after sera: o'clock, sheriff Gordon, accompuied by Mr. J. A. Campbell, Lord Melville, the Duke of Socaleach in hie ueiform of Lord-Lieutemet, the Hon. Captain Car negie, of H.M.S. Edinburgh, Ventenant Johmitou, R.N., rid Lieuteeant Cajal, of H.M.S. Jackal, the Hon. Colonel Deli* lad Captain Jana, aide-de-oacep to Lord Melville, swivel es the platform. Then were also a good number of ladles premier. The ?forth British Railway Company were represented by Mum. Ronald, Sprott, Home, Leishman, and Bowman, directors; Mr. Rowbotham, manager; and Mr. Nairn, secretary—all of whom had proceeded to Barwick to meet the train. Mr. Hodgson, the chairman of the directors, wu unavoidably absent. Showier Logan end Sheriff Renard ac companied these gentlemen to Berwick, and travelled back by the train with them. The royal train reached Longniddry Junction at six minutes put seven, twelve minutes before the specified time; sad a telegram was despatched to Meadowback, stating that her Majesty would arrive there " immediately." Precisely at twenty minutes past seven—sixteen minutes before the thee previously annoenoed--the train dashed up to the plat form amidst the deafening cheers of the people who crowded the viednity of the station. Prince Albert was the first to step out of the saloon car- Airs Lord Melville assisting both his Royal Highness and her Majesty to alight. Princesses Alice sod Helena were the only other occupants of this carriage. In the saloon for the royal family were Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur, these being the only other members of the royal family accompanying the Queen. In the carriages adjoining the saloon were the royal suite, corudating of Lady Macdonald, Lady Churchill, Miss Stopford, Sir C. Phipps, General Grey, sad Colonel Ponsonby. The Earl of Derby travelled with the suite in the same carriage. Si, James Clark had arrived to idinburgh by a previous train. The Queen and Prince were dressed in the plainest on tame, her Majesty having a light bonnet and summer dries and the Prince Consort a plain salt of black. On recognisir,g the Duke of am:clench, her Majesty advanced to him and shook hands, addressing a few words to his grace. The Premier also shook hands very warmly with Lord Melville and the Duke. The moment her Majesty alighted sad proceeded up the steps leading to her carriage a royal salute wee fired from the Castle, the band of the Lancers struck up the National Anthem, and the spectators who thud the rood cheered lustily u the Queen appeared. Her Majesty bowed repeatedly when in her carriage in acknowledgment of the warmth of her reception. The royal cortege letundiatelytwecuided towards Holyrood, the immense assemblage of apectatore cheering with great heartiness all along the route. The open spies in beet of the Palace was kept clear by detachments of the city police under Mr. Linton, which were stationed at the different herrimdes. A guard of honour, consisting of the Royal Sussex Militia, was stationed in front of the building, with the bend of the regiment under Bandmaster Burke. A few men of the Ride Brigade, from Glasgow, sad a body of the Royal Artillery, were plead on each side of the Niue anirease. The Doke of Richmond, Colonel of the Sussex Militia, who wore the decoration of the Garter, wee in command of his regiment. At the gates sr the Palace there were present to reeedve her Majesty—BaSW Biaokadder (representing the City in the absence of the Lord Provost), Mr. Rutherford, the Deputy-Keeper of the Palace, and Mr. Matheson, of the Board of Works. Two "royal postmen," mounted, were la attendance, for the purpose of carrying despatch(' to the post-ofiloe in time for the mall. A few minutes after half-peat seven the carriage of Sheriff Gordon, who had driven on In advance of the cortege from bfradowbook, pee to be in teedieses to receive the Queen at Holyrood, arrives in the geodesy* of the Palace, and almost directly after the two arriegesconveyfag her Majesty and the royal children drove late lie Palms-yard. Shortly before 9 o'clock her Ilejesty dined et the Palace, the Dukes of Bitoolsook and Riebmand, Viscount Melville, nod abseil( Gordan having ennived havitellesn. Bar Majesty's departure will Mite pleas hem Holyrdod at a quarter before 9 o'clock this (Wednesday) mcaning. A mill tory guard will be in attsideami to MONS the party to Mee embank. whirs a special train will he TEE INDIAN COUNCIL. Yesterday, at one o'clock, tka Council of India held their mewl swift at Ike laMelloase, in Leadeshell street. Lord Staley, the Bastes, of State, was ameba pment in his capeeity of Prsekliat of the Common. The members in ansetleace wise fir Preiselsh Currie, Sir Janne Wek Hogg, Captsia Zotwialt, Mr. Aebuthnot, Mr. Wil loughby. Major-Glesteni Sir Beset Vivien, Sir Hoary Raw- Sams, Mr. Prins", Mr. Mammoth's, Sir Henry Monroe any, Sb Prsby Caws,, semi Mr. Charles Mai. The ab eledese—freer iadispoeities, we believe—were Captain Shep herd dui Mr. Memoir; awl Sir Ma Laws's, mold not, of mess, be cement. Mr. Saba easert MM, the disk gutted heed of the department of Indian correspondence; Mr. J. S. F. Hemline sad Mn. F. W. Pride's; sesistent members, were in siessinice a the ems* as wen elm Mr. hated Dames sod other Misers of do seersheriat. la the mares of the 'Wag, wide& sad upwards of two home, the council appointed Mr. lams C. Mehnl to the dike of Asiteat Dadra escreasy of SIM That statUessot bas tq to this dna Med the oßos el aspsip sataittry is au Court of Direetem mar Mr. J. D. Diskimes, the _slaty to Me mark and hie sew sppeintumet is regesled as ea tadlestlea of the tenement of Mr. DI Boon Ana the respossible po etics he has se long mospied fa the tome ealablisluseem. Bishop Maltby has preosabed a donation of 201. to this kepi It&t4sol WNW* Isadtsdka. The dram& at tab ookolio boaliMita no ad pewit wily heavy. la sak dot to baba IS litaloolo Emir ittaiasomat k b sow Ito aoir tastbok degline paw a Ike ocast. atualklo trith cootkaai, bars, cable storm, thaw N likkoste bit cat at hub MOO& . -- STATE 07 MI DILIDDLISKX 81111110Pre COURT.— Oa T the =la of the plent in be aro= eel= was we the oreonting al • per number of purer is • mall rid Morpted room, a= Idea a canon al foal dr boo the Geis blow, that Mr. Popo, the is art for the esteem to mo the ra tt is n seakit• Pep= appe odder Tabery the hared judo bid dopey that be heti neatest the g report time* Weak' bp= would bar the effect ci bad tr. eintry not to deity any whisk had Men u imp 4 ocateoplaties, the of • rem= earbodol and v.mul.t.4 tort t grie of Ceneetien, Deldba . Aside, . Bona base le mot .re the 1110Wiell ot he - 7 . 01ge. that he ban at bwiested the pry= lll aod name are die art. sad th be liar the sioadve own pre over tram • water-do= at the heron of the stain leading up to the dock, to,. white the Work ler its way Into the wart miry time the door ie opened. At the tame time Dr. Nodes eon= etyma totirungly that the mum sad =le are eating, yea tar the p a s tas no et yrl seem wed ike Allows in adendenee upon thou during the trials. The =pa ream la wide die women an kept, en table' a urareiser, I a owe walk kilned by or with out any robin or =Wage le albeit frealt sir, and hoer= Wei eifonire. The ogle she de set needr mask= air, r the windows in the =rap are Ms= to be kept shut.— W. !Mates, M.D." Ilist'smstios.—The Prises Alfred steamer arrived se Pssaloslie-lissk as the ikk bunt to embark micro= for New Zedead. Mr alte 1= pores. at th e Ney bed terninie of Ho SestlW rßaven, Wei in sod led odbolddi _ will& that aria soars nenikr. TM le owed that Sae r ries the porsol THR MANCH AT MADAGASCAR. A letter from Paris, in the Nord, contains some particulars respecting Madagascar which at this rued moment, moment, when the French have j ust made it one of tisk naval stations, end when there has beam much talk of both French and English projected expeditions thither, are ad without interest. The French writer says : " The station of the eastern coast of Africa will form the seventh of our naval stations, the others being the mean cram of Africa, Imre and China, the Pacific Ores., lb. western meet of America, the Antilles, Newfoundland, sad [(Wand. I will ooeousence by speaking of the pomander es actually occupy on the east coast of Africa. Betides the floe island of Reunion (formerly the Isle of France), lid leagues from Madagascar, we prams on the strifes of die great island the Wands of Et. Marie, Nor*-Bf, and Mares, the last being the head station of this little goverment. The island of Bt. Marie, riled by the people of Madura oar Nora Ibrahim, is situate towards the eastern point of Madianwer, from which it is separated by a channel fro kilometres wide ; it is 48 kilometres is length, from 8 to IS in width. An arm of the sea traverses its southern poetise, dividing it into two parts. It is surrounded in great more by reefs, but to the north there is pretty good raderieg roved, and Port Louis, the capitol of the read, an exoellent port. In the middle of this port le a little Wad called Madame, strongly defended, and on which an the barracks, storehouses and dockyard. • Not for et, cat a mountain, ars the ruins of a monument recording the but occupation; it is a pyramid from the middle of whial a great tree springy, end on whose sides are carved the ems of France and of the Rest India Company. The aerate of the Island was made on the 30th Juty, 1760, by daughter of the last Prince of Foulspuinte, to Lode IV, represented by M. Comm, a naval officer. The ash cer• pearliest for the cessio n was a certain quantity of gook proper and suitable for her: It was abandoned at the be of the Revolatioe, but Count Mold again canard pow 'lon to be taken on the 16th October, 1818, by Brea Maclean, and the French agents were perfectly smi mitred by the natives. Next year a garrison of 80 me we pitted t.rare. In 1821 the French government, dedran develop agriculture in oar orioniee, sent sea sad snag, Is St. Maria The first attempts were unfortunates; try ens badly directed, diseases afflicted the oolourts, sad the Ter was total failure. Just then, February, tan, en Lam corvette arrived at Port Louis, and its cemmeadw, Koeteby, demanded by what right the French Were Mr bibbed there and what they proposed doing at M. Sylvan Roux, comm and ant of the red= sated in virtue of orders from the King, alba that MAW Car was French. An animated &amain sassed Mesa the 00141rMOr of Bamboo end the Chivernor of the &EOM who declared Madagascar en independent idol. it vla neatly that Beduin wished to re's the el the faLad, and to musk the nays nee Mash erb tesl. abed ear ear.eradrad. Badman, however. user cached our tight of property in St. Mode. They °Mimed tear tify the port, which In 1826 had 76 white area lad 11l in thee service of the tokay, and 100 moo cells some adenine. Two seen-of-war were at there: the conduct of "frerclaina brought things to that peke dui I 1896 it was vannwarp he rifle( of ken in en rapider% mi to station add =a Whin& temps at Pen Louie. " The aniniallna b MOO, Mel. Or d tit Bret acts of P • reenanwat web reemelo Marie, but nowewedea we !Ma rammed. m In 1840 ear gemeafteatble the imporban efitrssil ear weal power ha Mies Weiss, end ergehed i In, tbs limb of Ifs Bed and Ifeed-Camber ; h tell, Me list of /fwd. Minion and wavessibig Wet, and Ike d Nesei-Fall ; the Sultan of Mayone ceded his ideal es du 26th of April, 1841. All these cessions were Aland tea tribes friendly to Fretrom, and who felt themselves era/ hold their own against the Hovas. Thenceforward we heil • inpertant poeitioa in the Mosamblque Chimed: rota 'Mande are situate between lladagrost le ra Ur waliagi Mayente alone, an of the Comore Islands, MI er reign Gam the Shine; tin onion ere in dteations dams of 81. fristrie. Mayotte aad Noon- B 6 :GM orespini, and dace then have anaaally lammed he hr creams. M•yone, 'mortally, is cm the way to Weer a! Atrt*gamy ; it is 21 lodes kag, sad hoe en non heelease. A chain of me- ntebe mown it his wee ter sualh. The Ironer erandahment I. at NW Oast where the lead b very baba The Meal b rul esam l "Alto Pelftellacalld Sane g raeharb i lle l meashad b. • swim taw hello esatek eed the ler nraiiiigmOdis, 110.000 leratenes - of woad. lb le; ea the that's el a hub rivarend bas wan almoneano of boos /arid 000 :er_r. Beinton, whoa painiaika was tithes. Of the W i,lwgO 11., wry ri = . lollll- o. olllllZ,rl i a barle womo Pa* sight mfrs. ease boa Nowt-BC le rkele newfw— mMtnianyer" According Mmataisepwaieds.:B2.ll"elidbambitheicCUutsc:CoLoilootaioatthitLehi" tseeii prfleileo u : 2o ll 16.172 7,7 60 • fl<Wilat• • 1,4 N si To thee" ere to be d 4tldodiir &MIK P 0141 6.1 ftuotleaerlee mod arzle,_lo3 sea of Snores Wet as , 5160 Ideldt Marto, the growth Z; 00 1 =Emig • is 1854. 339,121 of Agar ware thane's to Freacm Ica thia Wawa bow military mew of doodegnerbe ea the two an* St_ Apses Leal, miesewer, Mayotte fens her :2Zw NO. 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