The Express. — London, England, 1858-11-09 00:00:00

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SPECIAL EDITION of the N EXPRESS," eoataiania the remelts of the day's Roos, is pot). tailed every evening during the Sporting Season, at six o'clock_ VIE Emperor of the Paulen has manifested his habitual mgacity in abandoning the disguised African Slays Trade, the prosecution of which his already led him into some serious embarrammente, and was manifestly destined to lead him into more. The letter to Prince NAPOLEON, of which a translation appeared in our impression of yesterday, is expressed with the precision and felicity which are not on. common in the Slats papers of the Empire. The peremptory demand roads on Portugal for the restoration of the CAsrise-(.ergs is ascribed solely to a firm resolution of maintaining intact the honour of the national flag, and an assurance is given that nothing but • profound conviction of right could have led to risking a breach of amicable relations with the Sovereign of Portugal. With regard to the so-called African immigration, the Imperial mind is not, we are told, at all made up. The EMPLROR has no wish to countenanee enter prises opposed to progress, humanity, and civilisa tion. If the new Immigration wham) is really nothing better than the Slave Trade in disguise, NAPOLBOIII ru. will not hare it at any price. The Primo therefore is directed to inquire into the facie, and meanwhile, as the best mode of obviating future ocessions of strife, to resume those negotiations for the employment of Indian Coolies instead of African Negroes, which were some time back commenced with the British Government. Such is the substance of this very important com- manication. To those indeed who are aware of the horrors that have hitherto attended on Coolie immi gration it may almost appear that then is something like a dexterous stroke of irony in substituting a negotiation for the transport of Coolies in lien of the transport of Africans. We who protest so vehe mently against the one practice make no protest against the other ; and yet it may fairly be made a question whether the Coolies who have been carried acmes the ocean sa indentured immigrants have tared mach better, either on their passage, or after their art i val, than the Africans who, in the alleged exercise of free will, but with the proved encumbrance of manacles, have been shipped for the French West Indies by M. Hems and his fellow adventurers. This may be so ; but it does not alter the political value or the diplomatic importance of the EMPEROR... 4 letter. The Coolie trade is had but it is not fur us to denounce its exercise, however we may be bound (and by every consideration we are most solemnly bound) to mitigate its horrors, and punish its excesses. Bat the fact that the Emperor of the FEENCII is willing to exchange his transport of African Negroes for a transport of Asiatic Coolies, on the express ground that it is desirable to avoid all that is likely to offend the enthusiastic opponents of Negro Slavery—this is valuable an an additional evidence that NAPOLEON 111. is sincerely anxious to maintain in all its existing integrity the English Alliance. Ho cannot be ignorant that considerable feeling has naturally been excited in this country by the high handed mode in which he has just dealt with our old ally, whose offence has been too rigorous an en forcement of those very treaties which the honour of England hes long been supposed more especially con cerned to maintain. To have persevered in the mo dified Slave Trade, which had already led to one such embarrassment, and was certain ere long to eventuate in difficulties still more formidable—this would undoubtedly htvo been tan amount to a de claration that France held as a slight thing the imminent risk of thwarting the policy and risking the hostility of England. It is therefore not ande.erving of remark that the termination of the affair with Portugal is eagerly nixed on by the EMPEROR as the ooca sion for making known to the world the proximate abandonment of a traffic by the maintenance of which it had become abundantly clear that the cordiality of hi. alliance with England must, in the long run, be seriously imperilled. The well weighed expressions of the note bring this sequence of cause and effect into careful prominence. The note explains the Portuguese difficulty thus : Regard to the honour of France rendered it abso lutely impossible to admit that the African Immi gration scheme was the Slave Trade revived—made it absolutely necessary to repel that inference promptly, vehemently, even harshly. But now that that protest has been made—now that the national honour has bren satisfied, the Buratto& is free to pursue a aifferent course. Ile finds that this traffic is likely to lenel to ernharranung results. lie seizes the first occasion of abandoning it. He ex change, it for a traffic which, however similar in some respects, is sot only not opposed to the feeling., but is actually sanctioned by the practice of England. He abandons the trans port of Africans. It. exchanges it for the transport of Asiatics. This, at all events, is a declaration, in the face of Eurove, that the high-handed men• sumenorntly resorted !o in Portugal were not, u some good-natured friends in Vienna were quick to insinuate, measures promptel by a desire to insult England, but measures prompted by a desire to THE EXPRESS. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBE vindicate the honour of France from the repre‘ch of 1 the Slave Trade. Viewed in thin light, it i. impossible not to regard the 4441 letter as a most important commtinication, Estrinon has obtained a success which emoag persons of hie tem perament and in his position is rare. lie has triumphed over himself. He has had the wisdom to discern his error, and the courage to abandon it. That he has been mainly led to this course by a sincere desire not to irritate the susceptibilities of English philanthropy, certainly ought not to render his change of policy lees acceptable to the English peopie. It is pretty certain to be appreciated by the English Government. A DLCISION be. jut been proem/need by the Supreme Court of Madras which, when all its bear ings have been calmly considered, will give sincere satisfaction to the consistent friends of civil and reli gious liberty—to all those, also, who value a sound and impartial administration of the law. The case, u reported in our columns on Saturday, when stripped of extraneous matter, lies in a very narrow com pass. A respectable native of the Chetty caste had a son who was being educated at one of the best native educational institutions in the Madras Presidency. After he had been there for about a year the boy was induced, it does not appear by what agency, to present himself at the Institute of the Scottish Mission, requesting instruction in the doctrines of Christianity. An instructor was accordingly appointed by one of the Missionaries, and the boy attended at the Mission premises about three months. At the beginning of Let September the father went on business to Pali cat, and the boy seized the opportunity of running away from his home, taking up his quarters at the Mission. The Missionaries received him there. Two or three days after, the father, returning from Pull cat, and finding whither his son had betaken him self, went to the Mission to demand him back. He was told by one of the Missionaries that his son was at perfect liberty to go away if he chose to do so. The son, however, refused to ac company his father. The father then obtained a writ of Labels* corpus, and the point as to his right to have his sou delivered up to him came on to be argued before the Supreme Court of Madras, con sisting of Bit C. Itewuesox, the Chief Justice, and Sir ADAM BITTLLSTON, the Puisne Judge. The question on which the decision of the Court turned was whether the boy was of age to act for himself— the date of his birth became, therefore, the important point in the case. Upon this point the evidence of the father and other members of the family was precise—they fixed the year and day of the month ; according to them the boy was a little over thirteen. The lad, on the other hand, swore he was sixteen, but he had no evidence to corroborate his statement except the most dubious kind of hearsay —u, for instance, that his mother (now dead) had calculated his horo scope when he was ill, and told him he was sixteen. Such were the tuts and the evidence. The cue, which excited considerable interest, appears to have been ably argued. It was contended by the counsel who opposed the writ that even if the boy's evi dence as to his own age could not be taken as con clusive, he was at all events old enough to act for himself in a matter of this kind. It was also urged that by eating food prepared by pariahs and cutting off a tuft of hair, the sign of his caste, the bey had lost his cute by his own act, and that, under these circumstanses, it would be an act of great cruelty to deliver him over to the parental authority. The gentlemen who pressed this view were challenged by the Court to produce any proof that a young person, not having attained to that which by Hindoo law constitutes the age of discretion, could by his own act deprive himself of caste. No authority to this effect could be adduced, and the judgment of the Court proceeded on the single ground that, according to the evidence, the boy was not of an age to be considered emancipated, or to throw off the control of his parents, when he left his father's house for the Mission institution. On that ground the Court made an order that the boy should be delivered up to his father. There was then somewhat of asceue is court. The father, with tears in his eves, implored the boy to come home: the boy remained firmly seated in his chair and refused to move. Toe officers of the court ap proached to enforce its authority : the boy declared that he dreaded ill usage at home, and it was not till he had been solemnly assured of the protection of the Court that he at length quietly w►lked home with his father. The general feeling of the public, wo are informed, was decidedly in favour of the decision. We can readily believe it. The sanction of the law of nature—of that law anterior to written ordinances and older than all precedents—ever finds a ready response in the general heart and the popular conscience. - The decision, however, is not only agreeable to the principles of natural morality—it not only supports that upon which all society ultimately rests—the security of the family—but it is, as the members of the Supreme Court are careful to point out, amply warranted by precedent. The principles upon which the English Court of Queen's Bench acted in the well-known case of ALICIA RACE (a case somewhat complicated by the opposition which there prevailed between the will of the dead Protestant father and the scruples of the living Catholic mother) were invoked by Sir C. RAWLIKSON and Sir A. BirrLE STON in support of their judgment. It is somewhat remarkable that, in delivering the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench in thecae, of ALICIA RACE, Lord CAMPBELL referred for illustration to certain decisions of the Supreme Courts in India. In one of the cases thus referred to, a Parsee family having detained an infant child from its father, a Parsee, on the ground that the father had embraced the Christian religion, the Supreme Court of Bombay had, on habea s corpus, ordered the child to be given up to the father. In another cue, the facts of which were very similar to that just decided at Madras, the same Court, on the like application, ordered a Hinduo boy of twelve years of age, who professed to have embraced Christianity, to be deli vered up to his father, who adhered to the Hiodoo religion ; Ind the Judge. refused toexamioe the boy as to his capacity and knowledge of the Christian re. ligion. The principle on which those decisions pro- ceeded has received the weighty sanction of Sir John PATTEBON, and been confirmed by the autho rity of the Court of Queen's Bench. It really re quired no such support. It commends itself to every reflecting mind. It is obvious that no civil tribunals can sanction the rapture of home ties or parental authority in the ease of children under the age of discretion who have been persuaded, whether for better or for worse, to forsake the parental religion. RUPTCT AIfEIeDVENT.—A meeting of mar ceos.o and rowel readers took place yeetertlay, Mr. Craw f in the shale, to consider the two B•okraotry rentectivsly lea bets* parliament by Lord /ohm Rummell Is the Rowe of Comuose , sod the Lord Chancellor In the I,r+% The meeting bed besn called on account of the rereAurione leteey pureed no the Put Jai at th e S oc i a l *deer. Congress. The two Lille mere Analysed sad their swims defeats pointed out, en 1 a maakin!, wee apptineed to e,neider spin say a/teratioos, and 'o report to • Inturs mewing It emit mated that the Vellum dealt with oat of the R.okroptry Crewe, either by In•per , lno or o:beret..., are ten tun.% wore aninerotts than those cowing before thee tanned. • 4 Eel 001111. - • • wnipsoß,•atoir. 1. The seen end „Prince Consort, accompulled by the Primes of Langone., Prim Arthur, and Prisons Louisa, walked in the Hones Park this leorning. Princes. Helena rode in the riding-hokse, The Right Hon. Sir & Balser Lytton end the Hon. Mr. Cartier (Prime Minhder of Canada) left Windsor in the fore noon for Loudon. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the offi cial residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were : The Earl of Derby, the Right lion. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel. Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Saturday neat, at Windsor Castle. Despatches from the Governor of Canada were received yesterday at the Colonial-once. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Falkland Wands. PRINCE ALFRED AT CORIJNNA.—Prince Alfred arrived at Corunna on the 2nd, at 11 cm., on board the Spanish eteamer Santa Teresa, which had been rent by the captain-general of the department. The prince was received on landing with the salutes and honours bestowed on an Infanta of Spain. He visited the spot where the battle of Elvin was fought, and also the tomb of General Moore. Ha afterwards partook of a collation at the captain-general's. At half-put four the prince returned to Ferrol on board the Santa Tanis. The birthday (the 17th) of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was celebrated In the metropolis, to-day, by the customary ringing of bells in the royal parishes, displays of fags at the Horse Guarda, Admiralty, &0., and, at daybreak, with a few &Jose la St. James's Park. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wale. paid a visit to Ham House last week. His Royal Highness was received by the Roe. Fredrick Tollentadas, M.P., who con ducted the Prince over the mansion, pointing out the numer ous objects of historical *tercet. The Equerry In Waiting and Mr. Gibbs wars in attendance. The Duke and Dachas d'Atimale, their two sone, end the mother of the Dachas., the Princes, of Salerno, left Brunets yesterday morning for England. Hie Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Dachas, de Malakoff will leave town to-morrow, on a Melt to the Dake and Duchess of Manchester at lilmbolton Castle, The Duke and Duchess of Bucelengh intend to leave town on Thnuday next for Bowhill, Selkirkehirs. As soon as the valuable paintings and (amino.° are removed to the late Earl of Sefton's mansion in Bslgrove-equare, Montagu Boum will be razed, and a palatial structure erected on Its site. The Duchess of Grafton hu returned to town from Euston Hull, Suffolk. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury come to town to-day from Hatfield Howe, Herts. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham arrived in town yesterday, from the family sea t in Lincolnshire, and propose to leave to-morrow for Brighton. The noble earl is improved in health. The Countess of Malmesbury received a select circle last night, at the private redo:knee of the noble Secre tary for Foreign Affairs, in Whitehall-gardens. Among the visitors were the representatives at our wart of all the great powers of Europe. Lord Pevensey, M.P., has just returned from a flying trip to Egypt, Cairo, and the pyramids. His lordship was able to spend three days at Cairo and the Pyramids, and to be in England within a month. Mr. Gladstone set out yesterday on hie way to Corfu. Mr. and Lay Mary Craven have left town for Comptettne, on the invitation of the Emperor and Empress of the French, to pees a week with the imperial 000 rt. The marriage of Major Lindsay 'r with the Hon. Mien Jose. Loyd, will take plea an the 17th Inst., at the ehtuch d St. Martia'e•ia- thrFhido. On Sunday last the Lord Bishop of Oxford preached a sermon In the parish church of Frant, in behalf of the free whoosh of that village, established for the gratuitous education of the poor, sad numbering now 196 boys and 102 girls. The church woe crowded to excess, Tunbridge Wes 'frosting a large portion of the coogregation. We (Scotsman) rejoice to learn that there is every probability of the banquet in thle city in oomtnensoration of the Brat centenary of Robert Borne' birthday ►eing presided over by Lord Brongbam. Ruch an set would, we are atire, be very grateful and welcome not only to the ciliates of Edinburgh but to a flocachnsen, end to the admirers of Beim throughout the world. On Thursday evening Sir H. C. Rawlinson, K.C.8., delivered a lecture at Reigate on behalf of the Mechanics Inatitution, taking for his subject, " Recent Discoveries in Aseyria and Babylonia applied to the illus tration of Scripirve." The Town Hall was filled by a highly respectable sadism's. The Rev. Chu. Tynen Jenner Tyrell, only brother of Sir John Tyrell, of Bonham Hoarse, and heir, we (Riser Heralll believe, to the baronetage, died in London, on Wenn ay. The dammed gentleman, who sewerned the wan* and arms of Jennie, in addition to thaw of Tyrell, by royal license in 1828, held the motorist of Midley and Buck land, In Kent, of which Sir John le the patron. _ _ At La Saila (Milan) Norma is being played with Mdlle. bibs. Mdlk. Bazzuri, and M. Bsrti. M. Berlioz is reported to have written a new opera to We own Libretto. From Trieste we learn that the Italian Opera is re-opened, Ginglfni being the sueotesful star of the new troupe. The mu+ical journals of Italy ray Miss Victoria Halfe will sing at the Reggio (Torts) during the carnival arena. The event of last week at the Italian Open at Paris wee the reproduetion of Barbieri, with Marto and Albool, Corsi, Zucchini, and Angrlini. Mario is eongratu. Wed no the admirable condition of his voice. " Repose at ►is villa neer Florenee has dons wonders," says a letter from Paris, "if we may judge from his admirable singing the other night. All the rare and charming guiltier/1 of his voles were displayed with that natural perception of how to nee it which belongs, one often thinks, to the inspiration of the moment rather than premeditated study." The second and only surviving eon of Mozsrt died at Milan on Ootober 30, in bd. 80th year. The Paris Preue says:—•' We seem to have re turned to the blamed time of miracles. La Selene and the grotto of Lourdes have encouraged innators, and the Uewn Malosini of Saint Maw relates that a few days ago a deaf end dumb person was miraculously cured; whilst the Corer- rise de Champagne records the wondrous curs of a paralytic women. The larger miracle, it swat, was accomplished by Saint Csprsis in person, he haring appeared to the old woman •aa a venerable old man in the midst of a blaze of light more splendid than that of the sun' !" " It has been remarked," says the Carriers Mer meta. of Genoa, "that a vast number of Turks end Chre dans from the Levant have been for come time put bnyieg up arm* here, paying dearly for them, and pending them off to the Etat. The object they have in view has not trim- The following are some of the sumptuary epid urals*. Jost adopted by the Ottoman Porte :—P.pes encircled with weskits stones are forbidden. In the public offioes neither oAss, pipes, nor forbear, are henceforth to be waved. TM tsootionarise above the grade of bele le the Itigkeet one 'lose to be snowed to have two home In their carriage', and are forbidden to bays several domestic* on horseback. From the grade of Ws downwards, functionaries so only Me am-horse carriages, sad boat, with two Fairs attars. Some sensation hes been caused at Madrid by M. Martinez de la Rosa. the Vice-President of the Council of Suite. having delivered a speech at t h e Atom Clean/leo. is whit* he istrvighel with much eloquence soled the Inqui sition, still the theme of admiration in clerical journals and Amon the absolutist party. He could not, he said, conceive the existence of the Inquisition on the Spanish soil, one that the peninsula was bring intersected with railways and emeered with telegraphic wires. In the same speed; Id. Ilmeines de le Roes .poke of the English domination is the East ladies to terms similar to those lately aropkled by M. lhaisistabert. 'RUSS FROM PARIS. (MON ONS OWN 001111PONDENT4 ' • PARIS. MOIND&T XVIMIIO. My brief letter of yesterday, lamenting the scarcity of news in Paris, betrayed a presentiment that something wu in the wind at Compiegne, and so there was, for at the cabinet council held there it was resolved to sead to the Mositsur the Emperor's remark►ble letter to Prince Napoleon, which you will have seen and commented upon before this reaches you. It may, I think, be readily ad mitted that this letter is as full a concession to the public' opinion of Europe, and as candid an admission that he has been hitherto pursuing a wrong course, as s powerful and de spotic monarch can well be expected to make. When he tells his "dear cousin" to inquire with that " zeal and intelligence" which distinguishes everything he does, whether the traffic in blacks on the African coast be not in reality " a slave trade in disguise," the French Sovereign confesses as plainly as self•love will allow that he knows it to be nothing else. The inquiry committed to such hands is a pleasant fiction, for Prince Napo leon's opinions on the subject are well known. Ever since his appointment as minister of Algeria and the colonies, he has steadily opposed the "free emigration scheme." I remember calling your attention, nearly a month ago, to a paragraph in the Prase, foreshadowing the decision which the Emperor has now publicly announced as one probably inspired by the Prince. That paragraph stated that when once the affair of the Charles- Georges was settled, there might perhaps be grounds for reconsidering the whole question of free emigration. The Presse of this very evening says, in noticing the Emperor's letter : A question of such importune deserves indeed to be thoroughly examined. We ourselves have already insisted upon the neoessity of an investigation. The debate is now open end the question will be discussed in the light of day, f,r both the foreign and French press will be eager to take pert in ea inquiry in which all maritime nations and civiliia tion itself are deeply interested. You may perhaps suppose that the Pays, which has repeatedly, pertinaciouly, and even within the last four or five days denied, in the most blustering tone, that there was any thought of giving up the exportation of African negroes, and which, in the teeth of all that has been adduced by the English press (and more particularly, and in the first in stance, by the Daily News), has never ceased to swear that the traffic was nothing at all resembling the slave trade ; that no single negro was ever put on board a French ship but of his own free will and accord; that the "emigrants" were, to a man, happy, contented, and comfortable on their voyage to the colonies; and furthermore, by way of a clincher and conclusive estoppel to all argument, that because some small colonial clerk with the high-sounding title of " government delegate" was on board, it was " manifestly impossible" that anything like the slave trade could have been carried on by the Charles-Georges, or any other ship in like case—must feel some embarrassment to square accounts with its readers now that the Emperor says officially—My mind is not easy about this matter, I will have it thoroughly sifted, and " if "—(oh ! most significant " if")—it shall turn out that the negroes are not in fact free agents—if the traffic is in reality nothing but a slave trade in disguise, I will have none of it at any pries. lam not the man to protect any undertakings in any part of the world which are contrary to progress, humanity, and civilisation. Count Walewski's organ, how ever, betrays no hesitation or vexation. The hardened sycophant, without a word of apology or explanation to those that it has misled. says, simply and unblushingly : "The noble words of the Emperor will create an immense sensation in Europe ; they are a new proof of the policy at once firm and mode rate, inaugurated by the Emperor Napolon, and which has already had such happy results u regard• the peace of Europe." The Petrie, however, which for some time past has manifested honourable long ings after independence, shows its sense of h►ving been made a fool of by the Foreign-office by pub lishing the Emperor's letter in a second column, in comparatively small type, and without comment. I apprehend that the most immediate consequence of the appearance of the imperial letter will be a considerable modification in the drafts of the ministerial speeches for the Lord Mayor's dinner to-morrow. It was probably not without an eye to the coming off of this annual event that the publica tion of the letter was decided upon. The date (Oct. 30) bears evidence of much hesitation before the step was taken. The letter will also, I venture to think, change the tactics of those members of par liament who intended to make the Charles• Georges the rallying cry for a mortal onslaught upon the present ministry. Without expecting private indi viduals to believe that the French Emperor, who personally directs every important act of his govern ment, is the worst informed person in his dominions, and is only just now alive to the fact that the odious slave trade has been for a long time past going on under his protection, it may be highly politie on the part of the English cabinet to receive with official cordiality a manifesto which on the face of it is highly praiseworthy. If acted up to the entire and absolute renunciation of the traffic in African negroes will be the oonecquence. This would be a grand result, and one which it is impos sible not to see must be due in great part to remon strances on the part of England. If Lord Derby's government have taken a creditable part in bringing about this result, their conduct in tills respect may be well set off against any hesitation in the very difficult ewe of Portugal. Lord Malmeebury was doubtless told by the law officers of the crown that (apart, perhaps, from a question not yet eluci dated, about the precise part of the Mozambique waters in which the Charles-Georges wail at the moment of the seizure) Portugal had, in point of strict international law, no right to seize the vessel, even if it had been beyond all don.ht that she was • slayer to all intents and purposes. This, therefore, was not a case for England to go to war about. Occasions of quarrel will not, I greatly fear, be wanting. It is apprehended that France will systematically pursue a harassing policy, plac ing England continually in a painful dilemma between suffering humiliation and taking umbrage too readily. England can, however, afford to be long suffering, and should not be swift to imitate the alarming and startling policy of France as exhibited by the hostile demonstration against Portugal. That policy hex already brought its own punishment, and terhaps the end is not yet. The Emperor's letter produced an excellent t ffect on the Bourse, the Rents rose 40c. for each, and 45e. for account, closing at 73fr. 60c. and 73fr. 75e.; Mobilier rose 27fr. 50e.; the Orleans Railway rose 17fr. 50c., and the other lines from Mfr. to 10fr. A telegraphic summary of the following letter from the Emperor to his Imperial Highness the Prince, who is chargcd with the ministry of Algeria and the Colonies, appeared in the Express of last erentatt " Saint Cloud, Oct. 30, 18.58. "My dear Cousin,—l earnestly desire that in the very moment of the termination of our difference with 9. Portugal toting the Charles-Georges, the question concerning this eogasement of free labourers from the coast of Afric► maybe examined once for all and set tled in accordance with the true principles of right and humanig. . I energetically demanded from Portugal the restoration of the Charles-Georges, because I shall always maintain intact the indepen dence of the national flag ; and in this circumstance I needed the profound conviction of my good right to risk a rupture with the King of Portugal of those friendly relations whioh I feel a pleasure in main taining with him. " But, as to the principle of engaging the blacks, my ideas are far from being fixed. If, in fact, labourers recruited on the African coast have not their free choice, and if this enlistment ie nothing more than a disguised slave trade, I do not desire it, at any price. For enterprises contrary to progress, humanity, and civilisation, will not find a protector in me. " I beg you then to inquire into the truth, with that zeal and intelligence you bring to bear on everything you take in hand ; and u the best mode of putting an end to continual causes of conflict would be to substitute the free labour of the Indian Coolies for that of; the Negroes, 1 invite you to come to an understanding with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of resuming with the English Government the negotiations that were commenced some months ago. Whereupon, my dear cousin, I pray God to have you in his holy keeping. " NAPOLEON." THE INDIA MAILS. We have been favoured with the following tele gram from the Peninsular and Oriental Company, London, 9th November : "MALTA, Sulam; Nov. 7. "The Ceylon left for Southampton at 7 p.m. The Elaine for Marseilles at midnight. "The Ripon arrived at 3, and sailed at 9 p.m., on the 6th, with the outward Bombay mail. " The Panther arrived at 9 p.m., and sailed at midnight." POSTAL SUBSIDY /V TSB GALWAY LIVE. Yesterday the directors of the Atlantic Royal Steam Navigatfiu Company received from Lord Bury the ratityieg Intelligence that he has concluded the terms of • oubeirly with Newfoundland and the imperial government conjointly for that colony. It is understood that this com mencement has been made on the most liberal scale, and there is reason to believe that the future operation' of Lord Bury with the remaining colonies will be conducted to • similar issue. It may therefore be considered that the Atlantic Royal Steam Navigation Company is now in a posi tion to compete with all, or any, lines of transatlantic steamers. Lord Bory Is at present negotiating with the United States government sad the rest of the North Ameri can provinces. Considering the 11111111111 V in which the Gal way Company have hitherto fulfilled their promisee, the immense boon conferred upon Ireland by their agency, and the fact that through them British North America may look forward to the development of her colossal resources, this intelligence will be receiver] throughout the empire with feelings of gratilloation. Hitherto, it has been a fact that of eight lines of steamers leaving the United Kingdom for various parts of the world, not one has despatched a Ousts vessel from the shores of Ireland. Nor has a aces Irish emigrant been enabled, previously to the establishment of the Oat way line, to all even from en English port in a transatlantic steamer, at a met easily attainable by a poor mac. The new company has rolled away this reproaelt. THE POISONINGS AT BRADFORD. BRADFORD, MONDAY EVENING. There are no more deaths reported to-day. A boy named Oregon, of 131!bridge-lane, Bradford, flea lnc very pre callous. if not hopeless. oondiden. It appears that be bought some It ingot at klardaker's stall =Saturday sight week, and on Stunday, after bevies sates a portion of them, the usual oymptoms of purging and vomiting manifested themselves. Next morning, however, he felt himself somewhat better, and started off to his work at a factory. On his we, thither he espied one of the placards headed Caution!" which Mr. Leveratt, the chief constable, with praiseworthy promptitude. had aimed to be Mined. The boy read the placard, and then took out of his p what al; the lounges he bad left, and threw them away. In the course of the day, Die Illness returning, be was obliged to leave his employ ment. Next day he grew worse, and became delirious, but his friends did not call in a medical mast ustil Friday last, when there appeared to be little chance of saying the poor boy's ilk Wm. Hardsker, the still.keeper, has been worse since his deposition was taken on Friday, and is still suffer ing severely. Among those who still continue seriously ill from the areas of the poison is Zilpha Child, a married woman, et Heston, who partook of some lozenges which her sou, finnuel Child, 22 years of age, bought at Hardaker's on the Saturday sight in question. The son has also suffered considerably from eating of the lozenges, but le now recovering. The appal for subscriptions for the relief of the surviving sufferers by the terrible whitish* of selling arsenic instead of gypsum for pogrom of adulteration is meeting with a re news' in Bradiotd. The lists vowel for the reception of ►ubscriberY names have been headed by the Mayor (Henry Brows, Ern ), R. Milligan, Bet, pd other Influential gen demen.—Lreds Mercury et ihie Eq. DEATH FROM AN OVER-DOSE OP IPS- C4CVtWE4. Mr. Wakley, the coroner, was engaged for some time yesterday aftentoon in en inqutry mini.e to the death as woman named Hannah Barnett, aged 48 years, the wife of Mr. William Barnett, residing at I, Koppel-street, Marl borough-road, Chelsea ' who died on the morning of Friday last from the effect. of • powder composed of compound Ipeceenanba, which it was stated she had received as medi ' eine. being an out-pdient of St. George's Hospital. Mr. Barnett, the deceased's bushaed, stated, In answer to the corone_r_. that his wife had been en out-padent of St. George's Hospital, and produced the paper of admission to that effect. She bad been supplied with medicine from the hoepit.d, and to the beet able knowledge sad belief the ipe wombs powders formed a portion of it, as he wag not aware of their having come from any other Otos. On the morning previous to bee death she informed him that she had takes one powder and the half of another, es she thought it would do her good. She was suffering from dopey at the time. Ellen Phillips. a lodger in the carne hones, stated that the deceased came down to bar room between 10 sad 11 o'clock in the moraine of the same day, and said, " I believe I am poisoned, for I have taken a powder and a half, and I feel so sick. I think it was too much." Almost immediately after wards the deceased became very drowsy, and witness had some difficulty in getting her to her own roma, where she was laid on tho bed. As she became worse, and her Ws M asai • livid appearance.wilswee at once twat for Mr. Fovea, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, who arrived in a few minutes. Mr. Farm stated that on his arrival he found the deceased labouring under what appoarei to him to be the effects of opium. Ho directly administered emetic*, 'winding alms quart* of coffee; she was else continuously walked about the room until 3 o'clock at night. when he warm away. He raw her again at 10 o'clock, and at half-past 3 o'elook on Friday morning be was celled to the house scale, bat upon his arrival be found her dead. He subsequently made a pet mortars, examination of the body, and found the heart threw times its natural ►tae, and the liner was in the Name coedi t/OW. Wpiabiart at Meet tea pounds. In the abdomen he found six quarts of water, which produced a correeponding debility is the eurrousdiog organs. On being salol by the Crooner as to the caw* of death, Mr. Faxon replied that he attributed It to the opium con tained in the ipi , c.ouanha she had taken, and which amounted to three-and-a-half grains. He bore headed two ticket. to the coroner, one containing 36 grains of what he bvlkyed to he onnponnd ipeotonanhe, and the other 16 endue, being the remelts of shill powder. Beth papers were without written dlrectionit. _...__. _ The coroner saki he could not believe that each powders were mot from an boapital in snob a careless manner. He reoalird the ►usband. and asked him tf any root could be mewed that hie wife had these powders from St. Georges Hospital ? Mr. Barrett moiled that he had no evidence beyond the statement of hie wife to him to that effect, and having seem her with the hospital Isttrr constituting ber au out-patieur. The room was cleared of strangers at this point, sod upon re-admiration, the comaer and jury had deemed the as too important for &real at this stage. The powders were sealed up end handrel over to the custody of Mr. ?aim the suriesna ; after which the proceedings were adjourned foe the purpose offs more pearching Inquiry into what seems at pre sent a very singular align.. LEGHORN, Ocr. 31.—The Dukes Eugene and Michael of Lenchtennerg here jut arrived at Leghorn by the Sardinian Wllf-1111MILW the Mogambano, which was placed ►t Gems at their disponi. Their highnesses are to re-mabark this evening for Civil.' Veoetia. The Grand Duchers Mary, aide, of his Majesty the Emperor of Runde, who watt also expected at Leghorn, has proceeded from G. to Flamm by Lad. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. The new Lord Mayor has been fortunate in tits first day of his reign. A finer November day is possible in the English climate ; the atmosphere we. Nih t, clear, end bracing, and at noon the sun shone forth e ig, autumnal splendour. The streets were thronged f iom London-bridge to Westminster, and rarely have du" been so many spectators of the time-honouftd procestim. Within the limits of the City business was almost esti re l y =speeded, and this, added to the stoppage of the traik gave rise to a good deal of grumbling, but the ma j air of the crowds was that of good-tempered nth. faction. Previous to the "show," available spry were occupied by companies of tumblers, Ethiopi a serenaders., Punch and Judie', brass bands, bagpipe play eN and other itinerant candidates for popular favour, _ . _ After breakftst at the Manvion-house the Lotd Maya attended by him household, proceeded to Guildhall, 'dim h• was received in state by the Court of Aldermen and Comm a Council. The usual preliminaries were gone through, sa d a 12 o'clock the promotion moved from Guildhall-yard it t h e the following order : Folios-constables to clear the way, Drums and Fifes of the R oyal London Militia. The Boys belong into theMarigelSeolety, with riaanan. City Marshal's Man Band of the Royal Military Cullers, Chelwa. The Boys of the Royal Military College, Chelsea. Three Trumpeters. Waterman carrying the Banners of the following Live, Companies of the City of London : Banners of the City of Wheelwrights' London Wheel Company. Banner of John Peckham. Company. Banner of Alderman Bridges. Banner of the Company's Plasterers' Arms. Plasterers' Company. Banner of Company's Company. Arca. Painter Stainers' Banner of the Com- Painter swear Company. pony'. Arms. Company. Banner of Arms of R. W. Kennard, Erg. Carpenters' Banner of the late ',Kerman Carpenters' Company. Lawrence. Company. The Union Jack. Royal Standard. Union Jack. Wax Chandlers' Anne of the City of Wax Chandkne Company. London. Company. Arms of Alderman Cowan. Arms of the Company. Royal Standard. Union Jack. Banner of Arms of Mr. Alderman Rumphery. Clothworkers' Banner of Anna of Sir John Clothworkers' Company. Musgrove, Bart. Company. Banner of Arms of the late Counts.. of Kent. Banner of Arms of the late W. Chandra*. Beg. Banner of Arms of the late W. Lambe, Bag. Banner of the Arms of the Company. Fishmongers' Banner of the Aram of the Fishmongers' Company. Company. Company. Grocers' Com- Bannerol tho Arms Grocers' Coin- WY. of the Company. Ploy. Banner of Sir Richard Whittington. Mercers' Com- Banner of Alderman. Mercers' Com- Pug. James Townsend. Patti'. Banner of the Company. The Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers. .1 ' 5 Wa te rman bearing the following Banners .1 Brame of the Arms of the City U I Arms of London. il P a :Banner of the of Mr. Alderman Farncomb. 1 7* Banner of the Arms of Mr. Alderman Humphery. •,, Q. F Itemise of the Arms of the Company. 2 The Court of Assistants, in the Carriages. F The Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Innholders. A Military Band. Watermen bearing the following Banners : The Royal Standard. Banner of Anna of Sir C. Marshall, Kt. Banner of Anna of Mr. Alderman Ware. Banner of Anna of Sir H. Iduggeridge, Kt. o g Banner of Arms of the Innholders' Company. E 5. Banner of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. qq r! Clerk of the Company, in his chariot. The Court of Am/detente, in their caniagce. i g The Muter, in his chariot. Three Trumpeters. The Under City Marshal, The Lord Marcel on hornet...lk. Beadle. Watermen bearing the following Banners . Royal Standard. Banner of England. Union Jack. Banner of Scotland. Banner of India. Six streamers of the City Banner of the C/ty d Arras. London. The Band of the Col.latrearn Guards. The Two tinder Sheriffs. ffi The City Solicitor. o. The Remembrancer. The Comptroller. 8 The Srcondary. The Common Pleader. .8 The Judge of the Sheriffs' Court. The Common Serjeant. The Town Clerk. The Chamberlain. The Band of the Hoye! London Militia. Three Trumpeters. Banner of Mr. Sheriff Condsr. Mr. Sheriff Colmar, in his State Chariot, attended by bit Chaplain. Three Trumpeters. Banner of Mr. Sheriff Hale. Mr. Sheriff Hale, in hie state chariot, attended by by Chaplain. The Aldermen who have not paned the Chair. The Recorder. The Aldermen who hare passed the Chair. The late Lord Mayor. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, In his ewe carriage. drawn by eta home, Attended by the Chaplain, Sword Beam, Common Crier, and the Water Bailiff. Guard of Honour, on horseback. The Procession passed through— Greahem•street, King William-street, Ludgate-etred, Colman-street, Cannon.arreet. Fleet-street, Moorgate-street, Pear. Church- Strand to Wet- Princes-street, yard, rainster. It will be wen that nothing novel was introduced into thir yesr'sproomeion ; banners, gay uniforms. handsome equipage, . _ . ;Oka; bands, end the gilded chariot of the Lord Mere were tho principal features of the pageant. The mocks of the Lord Mayor (Alderman Wire) was highly davonrobb, but his predecessor (Alderman elr R. Carden) er peen to have given Mance by some deoldens k his magisterial capacity, as he was repeatedly sr sailed by cries of " Costationgsra for ever," "Pa must move on," " I'll .put yer down," an complimentary expressions which appeared eve his annoyance to his footmen. A • t • route evinced the civic sympatble! . .• lifeir occupiers by • Bs play of streamers and flags. - ' Arrived at the entrance to Weomineter Hall, • proemial on foot was formed, and that . Meyer was conducted with much state to the Mower the Court of Ezchequer, where the Barite. &Mired • in tikr fritneta7oheo, :rent,in readiness ie 1 1 receive his lordship. The Recorder introduced his lordsh., to the court, giving • brief outline of his oleic career. The' Chief Baron congratulated his lordship upon his devotion, and the, usual oaths were administered. The ex-Lod Mayor handed in • statement of his Anwar :drip, in pursuance of the Charter, end the court compliments* the Aldermen upon the manner in which he had discheiged the ditties of his mayoralty. The Lord Mayor and his redone haying invited the Barons to hie bouquet, procisdig in due form no the other courts to repeat the invitation. The procession then re-formed, and returned to Guildhall by way of Cheapaide, being joined at Blackfriars-brides by the Lady Mayoress. - This evening the City is the sante of meth binds and gaiety. arising from en inroad of persona of distinsoo who have been invited to the grand banquet at Guildhall. Mr. Bayard Taylor arrived at New York on the 22nd ult., by the &noels. He has bees ablest nearly tee years and a half. H. will devote the winter to lectii*F His first appearance will be before the Mercantile Librsty New York, taking Moscow" for his subject. The sales for the current month in the Load Eels'.. Court at D obis comprise sales of seethe val Mild 32,4551 per annum, and covering 72,818 acres. Of these the principal are—the Kenmore estate, 3.2511.; M. P. Cott 2,8421.; C. P. Leslie, M.P., 7.2341.; Earl of Portmliagenit 2,1491.; Sir H. D. Mammy, 3,8401. One petition preseeted the week before last door/ the records of the old cowl: II was for the sale of the Anketell property, In the coast/ d Monaghan, with a rental of 3,7711. per annum. Mixer - mare To TIIE LATE BIIIEOP BLONFIELD 11 Sr. Parris.—lt bee Peen reeolved to erect in fit. POO. Cathedral a monenvoit to the late Bishop of Look*. Among those who bare signified their approval of the pr jest are the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Dake of Doc' clench; the Marquiees it Lansdowne Bristol. and We d ' minute"; the Earls of Derby. Ihrdwicke, ltarrowbf, firms and Jennyo ; the Bishops of Loudon, Durham, Winchaater, Oxford, Lichfield, end Bath mid Weds; Loude LyStePosi Brougham, Cranworth, Overaton e, Wensleydale Ebory w alle Maraulay ; the Right lion. Spencer Walpole: M.P.; tho Right lion. B. Lneklegton, D.C.L., &c. I