The Express. — London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

gicIIDIP-HAND PIAI4OFORTES..meItAXRII, *Mr•ai=l:=•p.B.:trii:=9lllrimtla gbe etPreS O• TO COI ikawwilmosoosto Wooded kw 'Ti. lo prow," ■weakeo Ps , ma be at Oho Me, 10, Bowmok deka, 01 Two o'CW‘ ea kw Soy if pablkollow„ MAT MAW?. Tom T. me. Ong /TOOTS TO 001%7 .. 11 134 . Mmma. Mm . , Madras'. mul Cd‘mhed b. M NI, ?weir. Irmo Or.—LIMO MM 108. Mr. was. —AM ALMA , " WM. The Lookomm. Tem inrros k Tni DRONICAWM La tom ma Wm Crsofa.l.—a 10941. ILIT,P4I/0111111r. Mt. J. likirL LADY laam—aal W. Clerked ••4 ILlas IL aims. ZION WAY= AT LONDON NILIDOIL I' —Aftwaser. lua. 1: a. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21. Tee Coroner's Inquest which has been sitting at Weymouth for some days pest on the rafortunat) victims of the explosion on board the Great Eastern has concluded its labours. But neither the reported behaviour of the ju'y daring the trial nor the ver dict they have aiiived at tend much to sustain the dignity of this ancient irstitution. A portion of the jr-y at least seem to have paid little attention to the evidence, end the verdict is bat • diffuse repetition of facts that have been notorious from the Ant day of the trial. As an instrument for the col lection of evidence the trial has no doubt been useful. lint the jary evaded the Lill difficulty of the case ; they made no attempt to inquire into the moral responsibility of the accident, but were satie fled with ascertaining its material cense. This win simple enough. The evidence adduced before the inquest satisfactorily determined the immediate cause of this disastrous accident. From the Art indeed there seemed to be little difficulty or difference of opinion on Its head. The rival engineers, however mach they may quarrel and contradict each other on the question of Riders lative responsibility, all agree as to the main point on which it should have been brought to bear in order to prevent the accident. The explosion took place because the stop-cock of the stand-pipe near the top of the casing or " water jacket" of the funnel was closed, instead of being left open as it ought to have been. Had this been the ease no harm would have resulted from shutting off the communica tion between the cuing and the boilers, and feeding the lattn directly from the donkey engines in/nada( through the jackets. The casing would soon have emptied itself, as the water remr ' , ling In it when the feed was stopped would psis off tivough the stand-pipe* tut es it became converted into steam. The whole mischief, therefore, resulted immediately from the closing of the stop-cock in the stand-pipe. The engineers are divided in opi nion to to whether there ought to have been any such cock in the pipe at all. Mr. Nl.Lennstr, the Company's engineer, says decisively, "I think the cock ought never to have been placed there." Others justify it as a useful precaution against the possible tweaking of the stand-pipe, which without a stop-cock would, it is said, have invidated the cabin with hot water. list whether it was right to have the cock or not, all agree that it was utterly wrong for it to be shut, and that the explosion was only the natural and necessary result of this criminal carelessness or neglect. M here don the responsibility of this neglect fall? This is the important quietism, which ought surely to admit of an easy and direct reply. It world scam incredible that • vessel like the Great Eastern should put to sea on • trial trip without any responsible officers formally commissioned to watch over and regulate the working of her engines. Yet the evidence goes to show that this, or something very like it, was actually the fact. It seems impossible to decide to whom, if to any one, the responsibility of working the engines was committed. There were twoasts of engineers onboard, the Company'a engineers, and the Contractor* , engineer, bat neither of theta, according to their own account and that of their principals, had anything whatever to do with the responsible working of the vowel. It is true they mutually rendered a certain amount of amateur easistance. Mr. M'Leowate, the Company's acting engineer, though declining to take charge of any engine, willingly helped Mr. Ecorr Rt &SELL with " • pull at the wheel," or, if he wished to have menages conveyed, sent them. Mr. btxoN, the Contractors' chief en gineer, considered himself simply as a pissenger, but undertook the management of as engine not withstanding, and seems during the voyage to have been one of the most busy and active men on board- Mr. J. ROT CAM PBTLL, the Chairman and representa tive of the Company, throws the entire responsibility of the management of the vessel dying the trial trip on the Contractor', and aunts that there was a complete anderstanding between them and the Dl futon on this head. Mr. Beorr Rutscxx, on the other hand, affirms that he had nothing whatever to do with the trial trip, either directly or indirectly, as a matter of basin'ss. The natural conclusion to be drawn from this contradictory evidence it, that there was really no one officially in charge of the en gines from the time the vessel left the Nora till her arrival at Weymouth. All on board, even the engineen, were simply passenger, bounden a pleasure trip—the latter, however, being perfectly willing to make themselves generally aural; give "a pull at the " wheel," or " regulate the throttle valve," if necessary. Under these circumstances it is only wonderful the vessel get on as well as she did, or, indeed, at all. Accidents of all kinds were to be expected, and would almost inevitably happen it there was really no one officially in charge of such new, extensive, and complicated machinery. And the evidence seems certainly to show that this important preliminary point was not settled, Or at least not settled in the clear, formal, and decisive manner it ought to have been. No document has yet been produced to throw light on this vexed question, and even the existence of letters referring to it is only hinted at as possible or probable. Though the formal responsibility was not settled with sufficient distinctnese, or secured by sufficient sanction., the evidence, we must my, goes strongly to show that the real respoosibility was with the coutractors and their agents. We have no wish to prejudge a question that may yet come before the legal tribunals of the country. Aod large allow ance of course must be made for the anxiety which connected with the vessel naturally feel to escape, porsible, from the responsibility of sorb a calamity. _ _ . Rat it be a public duty to report on the facts of the ease se given in evidence. These facto leave little room for doubt ea to who was really moonier the engines duriag the trip to Portland. Mr. Scott Itt - saw. allewe that he woe on the bridge nearly all the way. And that he wee there in the capacity of driver of the engines is plain from the wit esatenee of the evidence, in which he says explicitly •• that the pilot requested him to " drive the paddle engine, faster, bat be declined to do this." So obsolete, indeed, was hie authority, THE EXPRESS, WEDNISIYAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, ISM. that when the same request was made by the captious he still refused compliance. " Him asses was that " the constructor of the screw engines, Mr. BLaxe, " had agreed with him that it was not wine to strain " their engines on that oiression." This seareely reads like the language of one who had eMcially nothing whatever to do with the vemel. It seems rather to deemibe " an °rarity trial trip," in which Mr. Roaartx says, " the ship is steered " by the builder, there being generally an agree " meat as to speed." AU the leading whammies con firm the view which Mr. Rcassu. thus unwittingly gives of the position he held during the voyage. They all say that he was on the bridge directing the engines. Mr. ROT-CAMPBELL, the Chairman of the Directors, mays, " At the time of the accident, Mr. " ficarr Runexu. gave all the directions respecting the peddle-engines, and had done so throughout " the whole of the trip, and had his own repro " sentatire attending to the engines." The com mander of the vessel, Captain HARRISON, says : " Mr. Rrfoirit warn in charge of the paddle engines, " and Mr. LANODON, of Warr and Co., in charge of " the screw. I know that from my own °beer ea " tion. Mr. RUSSIILL passed down verbal inatruc " tions to those in charge of the paddles." The facts proved with regard to the management of the engines certainly confi , m this statement. Mr. Rusarii.'s immediate agent and representative, Mr. DIXON, for example, worked one of the engines during the whole trip, and the other acting engineers were all appa rently taken from his yard. On the other hand, so single fact was adduced to show that the Com pany's leading engineer, Mr. M.LEititax, took any part in the management of the engines during the trip. Mr. liar:sst. had expressly told him not to do so before starting, and this injunction warn repeated by the commander of the weal, Captain HARRISON. "My instructions," he says, "to Mr. M'l.Exmax, the chief engineer, were not to inter " fere with the working of the engines at all, but " to band over his staff of 'militants to the con " tractors." The fact seems to be that while the Contractors really worked the vessel, partly by the Companre staff, each party tried to evade am much as possible the responsibility of the management ; and the ex plosion was the fatal result of this wretched struggle. This terrible accident is directly traceable to the want of system and organ:intim in the en gineering staff. Each man did what was right in hie own eyes, without reference either to those above or those below him. No regular instruci tions were issued from the leading engineers to their dependents, and no reports were made from the latter the former. Had this been done the explosion never could have taken place. We can trace it exactly to the point where the want of communication between the Lading engineer and his assistant directly produced the tragic result. Mr. PATRICK, as assistant enema, was the officer who about mid-day turned off the water-feed from the casings, and he knew nothing sheet the stop-sock on the stand-pipe. His superior Mr. Annan., however, knew alt about thin cock, and bad the turning off of the feed been reported to him, would at once have directed it to be examined. But PATRICK made no report, and Aariorr, of courser gave no instroctioas. The man who know nothing of the step cock turned off the fc d ; the man who knew all about the ston-cuck knew nothing about the Iced being turned oC; and 6o the explosion took place. For want of a little system and order, of the commonest rules observed in the working of a staff, five lives are sacrificed, and this splendid reseed threatened with destruction. The terrible lesson must not be thrown away. If strict order and disci pline is necessary in the smallest liver steamer that plies from bridge to bridge, it is, of course, pre eminently needful in a floating city of machinery like the Great Eastern. And a wholly different system of management mr•t be adopted before this splendid vessel can secure the confidence of the public. tbt court. BALMORAL, Barr. 19. Her Majesty, the Prince Cxisort, the Princess Alice, and the Pismo. of Wales, attended &mitre trek* yea leeday in the pariah church of Crathie, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the household. The Rev. A. Andaman officiated. Dr. Diagissad Mr. Victor Houle= had an Interview whit the Doha of Narcaatle at tha Colonial-orka au Mork, attarosaa. TY Chasmlko of the Eschrquor let. Loofas yortorday for Possozoaur, Coamay, Noel% Wales. Ber o..Canionr;dl Iw,Y ttr ldt tows for Harptcw-coart. Nowakbee he the Germs, of Cue& were meat plater tley tram the Cokedel-ellee. The Earl of Elgin hes left Natoli.' Hotel en }'e telr•~to &a liad. The Earl and Countess of Fugal have left the Guess's Beta, Upper Norwood, for toss. The Earl of l'Ortaiaouth lit. left Howchin's Hotel, tor hi abet .% Hauptlore. Lard and Lady Proby hare arrived at thei. resi dence fa Helkin-street West, frets the Ceetkeit. LATEST INTELLICkENCE, PARIS, MONIIAL It L snorted that the result of the visit of the Log of the Belgians to Biarrits yrs neeessfol. Messieurs Blasqui and Boishot have arrived at Marseilles,stating their intention to avail themselves of the general 'snooty. THE CONFERENCES. BIIRNE, SEPT. 21. M. Desambrois had a consul'ition yesterday is:th the French Ambarsador, aftzr wbich a COVillt we, immediately despatched to Turin. HOLLAND. On the 19th inst. the Xing of Holland opened the Legislative Station of the Chambers of his kingdom. The royal speech, after stating that the govern ment of his Majesty entertain, the meet fiendly relations with all countries, is exclusively occupied with internal questiorn of improvement Among the projects announced the most important is the construction of a fine of railways through out the country, and of a new mall from Amster dam to the sea. The execution of these great works would render it necessev to observe pru dence in employing the coaniderable ext we over the expenses of the stets, and would not admit of any reduction of t-xes. The sinking fund would continue to act. The project of law for the emanci pation of the slaves in the Duch Wc:t Indian colonies not having bola adopted brit session, a modified project would be presented to the Chamber.. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. CPILOX 0173 ORX PARIS, TUESDAY BYEERMO. A Vienna letter of Sept. 17, addmeoed to the Ham agency, mays : It is hollered that the sovereigneof Prance and Austria in now speed upon two emends' points to prevent by all the moans is the power the proclamation of a collative re ' public in the Duchies, or of a separate republic in any one at there, and to oppoce their rnuezation to the kingdom 01 Piedmont. Both these eventualities may be oonsidered as positively out of the question, 'n consign/m.l of the nodes standing to which we have anode& Austria cannot but be moat grateful foe the Important service which Frame has rendered her in this grave affair. The Opinion Nationale, commenting upon the above sinister intelligence, says : The, orreepoodeat b eight; Austria would ladled have twos to be g. if Byrne, het made any such cower ' ken to bee, but we Meet that the undentaading between the two powers does not involve asp such omalusion. The Pays, which at a very narly period after the pesos of Villafmnes was instructed to support anti- Italian views, mays to-night that all the efforts of the 'teen journals to change the real state of things are in vain. "The reesl of the princes was stipulated ls the preliminaries of Villafranca; it forms part of; ejnallagmatic contract. And this article of the pre lim:sr ties cannot be annulled without the Emperor of Austria's consent." Whether Austria is likely to give her consent, the Pays hrs no means of knowing, but it is ceihin that the annexation to Piedmont will be opposed not only by Austria, but by other powers, and that "it has no chance whatever of encases." It will be observed that the Plon•Plon scheme is not exoluded either by the Vienna correspondence or by the Pays. I shall be much surprised if that conspiracy for making Italy a French province, which was long sines hatched in darkness, and has been vehemently denied, be not soon unblushingly avowed. The Arojsbourg Gazette says it is in a position to state positively that the Emperor of Austria will pay a v'sit to the Emperor Napoleon at the Chilean of Compiegne er-ly in October. The Boone hr; been firmer. The Rent* ro:1 6c. for cub and 153. for account, closing at 68fr. 750. and 'Mfr. 900. Mobilier advanced 16fr. The Eastern nitwit/ rose 6fr., end the other lines from 25c. to 2fr. 50c. Madame Lengle, the wife of the Prefect of the Meurthe, was billet to death the other day at Nancy. A spark flew out of the drawing-room fire and ig nited hsr dress wHe she was sitting at a table, writing a letter. The prefect was absent at the time of the sad accident. lie was sant for by tele graph, but only arrived in time to on his wife a corpse• No news has berm learned of M. Haa's stolen child. The police have thought right to arrest the aurae, who, notwithstanding her story, may possibly be an accomplice. The unfortunate mother is alarm ingly ill, end the grief of the father is beyond de scription. MALTA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. CYZOX MI ORA MALTA, Bun. 16. In consequence of the vast importation of Neapo litan rid ArSri= coin, and the pulsing of these coins at • rate above their vette, sovereigns en now at • premium, end melees ems government measure le adopted the English co;nege wiU be woe exported out of the Island. As soon es the news came of Admiral Hope's repulse by the Chines, nearly every officer of the vessels to port be longing to the Mediterranean fleet applied to the admiral to volunteer for China If the Admiralty would permit Ir. Admiral Hope is long and favourably known among the Akers se one of the very best and most wit:stifle officers in the se;vioe; end, notwithstanding the very unfavourable result, all who know him feel certain of his having dono the best that could be dose valor the circumstances. The fleet, under Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, proceeded to sea thin morning. Report stares that a portion of the Beet is to proceed to Gibraltar, In consequence of the diattubance in Morocco, and the Ppenish expedition against the Moors. Two courts martial were about to take place in the 15th, second battalion, but arrangements are being made to avoid them. It is said that Captain Smith will exchange from the 15th, sad Mr. Gibson will be permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his C0MM11461013. Mr. Newell pared through Mats for Alorends:a bat erasing, to lay a telegraph cable from Egypt to Turkey, and another arson the month al the Adriatic, thus connecting Turkey and Greece with Italy ; and, when flashed, this line will camect the Red eas telegraph with England. The Derwlck Is bendy expected with the cable to lay down hos Malta to Caps l'aseare. _ _ _ Her Majesty's ibip Cadmus retained from Genoa sad Leghorn Last evening. I Imre tbat the officers had en wee- Welty of &ling a good clod with the TWIZIUM, and they state that the desire of annexation to Piedmont Is unanimons among all clause; end it the Dread Dike in broaght back. it aril only be at the point of the bayonet. INDIA. The Bombay Standard of the 20th ult. states that the Nana, Mummoo Khan, and the Begum, are still in Nepaul—where, no one can say with any oer tainty. It is very confidently said that the Nana hes two or three Englishwomen with him—as has been hinted over and over again. The Begnm and her paramour are said to meditate an escape into Tirhoot and the Santhal Pargannahs. "The feel ing of the Nepaulese," says the Bombay Standard, "is decidedly hostile to the British, if they have not made common cause with the rebels against es. An intelligent native dilate has affirmed that upwards of 10,000 aepoys have been quietly absorbad into the Nepaul army, for the present being kept oat of sight, on the Thibetsa frontier. Sir Jong Bahadoor is said to be very inseer-e in his position at Latmandoo. A large meeting of Mahomedans had been held at the Prime Minister's, Saler Jug, ostensibly for prayer, bat the circumstances were suspicious." A little before the festival of the Mohnrrnm, the Punjaub was in a state of excitement in consequence of some Tumours more or leas exaggerated regarding disaffection among the Mahomcdans of Sealkote, Ibriritsur, Lahore, and hillundur. A Fakeer, a religious beggar, was first muted in the Sealkote district with some treasonable papers is his pocession. As this men appcsred to be acting for others, the police were ordered to keep a sharp look-out in all the towns where the Mahomedans mustered strong. It seems that those at Lahore are full of some nun. genes about the birth of a new prophet, and expected that a revolution was at hand. This silly story was eagerly credited and canveser 2 by the religions sec tions: of ,the Lahore Mahomedans, and the mermens preached at the mosques referred to the advent of the prophet, and were calculated to unsettle men's minds. Begin that mischief might be done by these mad fellows, it wee considered advisable to make an example of some of the foolish talkers. Four per sons were put on their trial, and they were punished by fines and imprisonment for a few months. It is said that the 6th Madras Cavalry, chiefly composed of Mahomedans, threatened te create mili tary disturbances at Hyderabad, similar to those that took place in the north-west provinces, if the government did not take from them the greased cartridges which were lately served out to them by mistake. Placards were put up in the public streets which showed that a movement was on foot for drawing the sword in defence of their religion, and killing all the Christians in the place. " These facts," observes the Bombay Gazette, "gives us a glimpse under the surface of Mahomedan political society. Their festival of the Moharrum pawed off very quietly here; but in the Deccan and elsewhere great discontent at the position they hold under the British government has been openly expressed." The commercial reports say : Oommetamm fizeremss hove changed hands to some reheat. Fives adventxl to 87f, but declined again on slug. quantity offering fcr sale. For-2 have rime, and mainta'ned themselves. The Mosier rates last evening WOW —Fount 761, Five', 87 ; rod Five•and-a- Half, 94 per cent. Farmers are stall wretehcily low, but the animation in cotton has seat the Liverpool rate up. We quote now 12.. 6d. to 17s. Id. for London, and 17e. 6d. to 255. 6,r Liver pool. Veen% have been taken for trove at from 161. 10e. to 231, per heed from Bombey, Coe, and Ketrachee. China freights are very doll, at Rs. 4 to ti per candy. ESC HANOIL—Not much business done, and but slight variation fu rates. Fist-clans paper, 24. Old., and document 2 0. Red. DEATH 07 P 10,15802 NllllOl. (PT ILIKTRICI TNLEOILLTIIO (711011 091 0W74 COPAILITOKIIIIIITI OLISOOW, Wzoszsosr. Dr. Nichol, professor of astronomy . in the Glasgow University, died oe Hawley thereto= from conarereke old= brain. Hu last public appearance was on the 27th of May, Is the Cky Hall, Glasgow, when ha acted as cbaleman foe M. Howuth. The wham wee basin 1804. His tether wee a hook -444 is Mattress, sad Mr. Nichol's first sentare in life we se serstimaass el Dun, in the neighbaultood of that town, VMS be was oily sixteen years of age. He afeerwards stu died Irr the church, and was drly limed as a meeker. Llturermis and science, however, ems divehri him "It) a OMNI Om suitable to ►ie faculties. Having obtained a pro. howerehdp dram Lord Melbourne's ministry, he dietingaished biassed by hie various popular week. en aatronomy, The Archilochus ad des Hasveas," " The Soler System," " The Pleader, eyelese," " The Piaui Nepta , m," &e.; and by him lectures as the some elms et sobjeete, he was the drat in sake Ike *Ms wills with what is celled the Nebelsr Hypothesis." Ten ALLSORD CONSPIRACY mum: TIM EARL. OP OTAMPOLD •110 WALIIINOTOI4.—.• reword of 601. has bees vim/ I. the igithultheies of Jesse Parrish, sesegeor sod ecilether et lugs at Bath* who i diarist with cos entries with Others Hashed, his lordship's late steward to defraud the ad dirge saw of mosey, which were pet s is rinses of the amounts du , fw tenth Parrish sot brew raptured. Os Friday Hackett sanendesed before eke Welverliamptoo coagistratra on hie atm recoisiessoe, and the hearing of the vise against him was reaumth. It was proved t h at Hackett was eppointod armor sad collector with Parrish from year to year, constesoing is 1861 and sostisalsg until 1869, bat that he ouly took the oath as therm is the drat year. A 'rifling wag boom, sailed who spoke to s cosverestka with Hackett 121867, villa the latter stated facts with respect to the S a s( a penes which be mkt he W &siva from th em slier. After the hearigg of the tees yearerde the ems silted for trial to the ss.ire. Mr. vise wired lac eke Batt of Stanford, asked Owl se seedy %Oft of the lordship's wary had been Iniaapfroprisied, the dethodeat @hoc id be required to find two earothels MIL eel sad be bound hiss& is 1,4061. The beach hod the belles fol lows —Two wreath is 2601. e.cb, sad the thiadest kim wlf its SOU. UN ll' ISITT COLLEGE HOSPITAL-4U stearsittes have received melba (sea John Perrot% Isq, at Slay Bergh ford, es tuba/ of the executor of the We Yrs. lass, Asa Watley, of • hegira of 1,0004 der doe bum& adds Imiqpital. RUSSIA. While publishing Pause Berietinskrs report of the capture of Schatnyl and the fell of Ghana, the at. Petersburg Gazette says : &harm', who i• now 81 peen et age, wr ban to the Aoul of Hilary, on the Komeobon territory, where Ws pm isersnr, Olmei-Aloahernined or Hui-hi oulbh, wee oho hors. end fell when the fortress wee tetra on the 18th of Nether, 18112. It le ;amass to point out the Insportme of the vktori which has plead In the hands of Mare Barlst:nsk; the lapt hialwak behind which the power of the lota= of the Caucasus found a refuge. The &Weill report of these events will shortly, doabtlest, enable ws to fain ru mot appreciation of the niaterlat sad rowel malt which the capture of &howl will have Mad SOME the Lithe populstiors. TUSCANY. PLOEENCP, SIrT: 19. - - - - The government has notified to the plenipoten tiaries of the Grand Duke to evacuate the Palace within three days; and in one of non-compliance, the property of the Grand Duke is to be sequestered. ROME. ROME, thrr. 17 (n.A. Mass=Lre). His Holiness the Pope ii rcoovered from his late illness. The Papal goveurnent hes expressed its satisfaction with the article on Italian affairs pub lished in the Nomilinsr of the 9th inst. Conferences between Cardinal Antonelli and the French ambas sador, Duke de Onunmont, continue to be held. It is said that the attributions of the Council of State and the financial Consults are to be extended. VENICE. VIINNA, Sir?. 20. The Wiener &thaw of this day oontains an impe rial decree, raising the state of siege in Venice, However, some slight regulations will continue pro visionally in force for certain men. GERMANY. MUNICH, TVrIDAT, Ilsrr. 20 . Baron von Berst, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Interior of Saxony, and Baron von Hugel, Minis ter for Foreign Affairs of Wirtemberg, arrived here to-day, to hold conferences, it is supposed, with our Minister for Foreign Affairs. MOROCCO. MARSEILLES, Szpr. 20. News has been received from the frontiers of Morocoo. The native tribes had renewed their attacks on the French outposts, and had pillaged and set fire to some of the French houses. General Esterhazy made a brilliant onsl►ught and repulsed the enemy. The government of Morocco does not appear to be implicated in these attacks, but has not the power to check them. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. tax arierrato ruseassa.) SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNIIIDAT Moasrmo. The Ellora, steamer, Captain Christian, has arrived, with Lisbon mails of the 17th, and Vigo, 18th. She did not communicate with Oporto on account of bad weather. She brought 15 passengers, including Mr. Howard and Mr. Baring, M.P.; 6,059/. in specie. In let. 46.10 N., lon. 7.49 W., passed the Sultan, steamer, bound to Vigo, end the ship Victoria Regis, steering westward. The Duke of Oporto had left Lisbon with the steam frigates Estefenia and Bartholomew Diaz, to take part in such operations at Morocco as may be necessary to protect Portuguese subjecr7. Lisbon exchanges—On Loudon, 421 to 421; Paris, 641 to 642; Genoa, 634; An'iterdam, 411; Hamburg, 461. THE STEAMSHIP NORTHAM. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have re ceived intelligence of this vessel's arrival at Aden on the 6th inst., all well, and the ship making but little water. She was to continue her voyage to Bombay the following morning. The Aresir of Nice says that the Duke and Dachas' of Malakoff are expected to tueiva them next mouth to remain part of tho *inter mums. The Ttucan government bee, by a decree of the 16M, ratted Major-OenerAl Geribalei to the rank of lista*. amat•genesal. A decree has been published abolishing slavery in the Wend of Jam from the lit October. Tee statue of Gioberti, which has been erected in the Piazza Ceiiguana, opposite the Chaintrr of Deputies. et Turin, has bees uncleared sad the scaffolding remove 1. N o ono would ever Imagine tint the status represented ea isecksieetio—tee artist having treated his subject, even in the sdasteat detail', so a lair. He hold" la lua hand, his celebrated work, ..11 Primate d'ltalla." Signor Verdi has loft Tiffin to pay a visit to Count Carom, who bat present at Led, the prortam of Vermont TURK' PRISONS Oval TER FALLS Or NIAGARA. —The fusion, with reference to a bolt costeining there per sons going over Niagara Fells, turns out nein Mushily to be too tree. The following additiosal ;melodies* are from the Lockport Aderrlieer:—lreseordsy sfierneos, about one o'clock, • man by the ' , se st Mosessa, sod • Mr. Morse sod wife Mak t is a bag fees Nee the bawl of the Hydraulics Creel se Megan Pere. to eon cow the river to Chipper's, when tb. heat was Mrs* by a pale sod oimised. They wen siesrted by insp.' on shore with spy he rim the boat in Witty. They ware soon carried the ese he tef u e:rest tb , ; b rAlti d , and were last warn blowing s seen gale tl ths shwa. Ned des efforts which were coausenced for their rescue weld rest ha completed before they were hopelessly emplpbsil r the head waters of the reside. We learn that Bosoms was saved Iron a fats hke this only about • year age, sad whew termed was es chlind as to he NI I irdy blan ks. IV Is reported by the citizens Sc his neighbourhood to have been a seasislar by oocopation. Mr. Mono was a ,Isersilsr, and raidW at Chippewa. PRUSSIAN OPINION ON THE ITALIAN QUESTION. The National Gazette of Berlin thus concludes an article on the Italian Duchies : The neutral pewees now have to say whether they intend that Brume alone shall decide the fate of Italy, or whether they wtl take part In the creation of • new state of things. the old having become absolively inadmiadbla. If they had keen inclined to support legitimacy before everything eK tsy ought to have tutu their mutures six mouths ago. while conquests hove bran made in Italy, sad If at the ekes of the wars of the empire the p,anns did not basing' to was what territorial chaagee they thought at :wary M they cannot refute to acknowl Ige that the war of 1859 hos modified the emotion. In satisfying the wishes of the Boddie, none of the neon,' powers would injure their own intereea. By continuing to remain peeve they would only nrvo Woe of France. THE APPEAL OF THE OIRCASSIANS. The following is the text of the address which the Cireevian deputation at Constantinople lately presented to the Grand Vizir, and to the representa tives of England, France, Arstria, and the United States in that city: - . . . During thirty years, Ramie has been carrying on a wicked and atrocious wsr, for which she can never be pardoned, seminal a jolple who bars always been fr independent, and groat. She has oblige I that people to defend themselves In their mountains, and to displace mic vastly their homes; she has and security from Wag established amongst them, and bee ceased the wa.rior who exposes his life for liberty to tremble for the Irv: , of his wife and children. A few yens ago, a treaty of pecibation, of which we havo obtsieed information, wee Imposed by the force of the magnanimous warriors of the West on the great Northern power. We have heard it said that by the ',Plot the victorious the ma which bathes the moult/des of oar dear count', has b n delivered, and that commerce, which makes nation wealthy and friendly with each other, can be carried on freely. We have rejoiced at this, beanies all the chafe of our beloved country have alwsys taught us to offer to stranger* Enema* bospiellity, sad guarantee. for commerce and for what they poems amongst ne. Bat the feet is that even after the 'mina a., humiliated In war, was obliged to swear not any longer to violate our sea, our porta have been closed and surrounded, and thst the reworces we obtaioed by navigation have bees Mat; sod yet the pudic' of men hoe not len a...testi. Thos northern invader has also resumed with gnat*, violate the combine In which ear fathers gained distinction; end at the tresat mornint err Ira remaining warriors are supporting an unequal oonict, In which the sword exterminates, without vanquishing ne. We, who belong to their phalanx, and are the brat amoaget our brethren of Ciroaaele, are determined to support the war, in presence of oar children, until the last man be struck down; end yet we, from love of peace, tease 49,1 inner, to the !OMNI, of the west, who are jot, and who are the children of liberty. God orders that thee. amen reacts wham he hes preferred shall learn that Cir. cute, glorious in spite of its enksery, dam& a truce which will give bee repent, bat she l. ready it ohs he disregarded to bury howl( is the tomb of her hopes! Pot the eirolle/4111 there will never be repro, is the hands of Ramie ((Here I follow MO signature., and the addras continues :) tieing 250 in number, all chief. experiesoed in combats, we have weighed before God the words we esny to onagers, and we have each of as reeled them with our inviolable mark, that they may appear as the language of Ma exuargi THE INDIAN PRESS AND THE CHINESE WAR. (Prose the Bombay Gasett4.) To guard against any emergency that may arise, the Hon. Mr. Bruce has applied to the Governor-Genera for troops; but where are they to corm from P Having been presented with their d:mharge, about 10,000 men are at this moment on the point of lem:eg India. Two months ago no one thought there was any &Enmity In settling the claims of the soldiers for bounty, created by their transfer to the service of the crott.t. Lord Gaming met the difficulty by giving them their discharge, emotivity, we fancy, that in this matter they would consult their min integrate, end Bed it neon to their advantage to ',main in the twain. Iles it so turned oat ? Every day we hear of the withdrawal of large bodies of soldiers from thee regiments, sad the army Nell is tepidly dissolving away. In the Bengal regiments 6,800 INS have taken their disebarge, about 2,300 are expected to shark (tura Madras, sad 2,100 from Bombay. About 600 discharged Europcaa **Miura arrived here on Sunday last keen Mbow, by rail, cud rimy are on their way to the Presidency frog the mama military cantonments in the Interior. We were info..nrd the other day that the Mips Costest, Hope, North, Nugget, mud llereferdelthe bare besot ebeatana by goverment for conve)ing the meet to England; the Ind two meals will sail to a few days vt:th about 415 ISM Oil board each of them. mule • nutter more inarrtant than on the earface It 'p rima It is indeed a I.mentable fact that the British force In India Is inadequate to the reqninusente of war. Soldiers mad be mantitaotured In a few month,, nor, when they are eta ;piing, at the time of enlistment, in a few years. Bat ed spitting that we are =Feting at double the rate of any pre vious year; admitting that we have done all that could be done to raise recruits, still there comas the question how are we to replace European regiments of long Indian exteriesoe, end at once raise British troops seasoned and lit for the hard ah4E4 of an Asiatic campeign P (Front the Bombay 7ekgraph - - - _ . Heavy ht enn will, we suppose, be made upon both the Madras end Bombay armies for native troops; and we esti only hope that the war will bo this time prosecuted vigor ously, sad a lesson taught the Tartar Emperor, which neither be nor his dynasty will easily forget. From the Brat we were doubtful of the ratification of the treaties; but we did not think that the court of Pekin would have had the anew to openly oppose, by force of some, the advance of the embassies. The fate of the empire may, however, now be regarded as sealed; sa anything leas then a bombardment dike imperial capital will be insufficient to wipe out the humiliation we have just received. The force despatched from India will, it is to be presumed, be for the most part composed of natives; as to take away coy groat number of European troops would, at all events, be impolitic, if not dangerous. Ns could easily spare from Bombay four regiments of native infantry, one of her Majesty's regiments of the live, one of the Rost Indian regiment., and about four companies of artillery. Madras probably could furnish an equel number of native regiment., sod double the number of Europeans. Prom Bengal we should take native troops entirely, inch as the' Sikh and Oboorka levies, who would be found just the kind of men for crossing weapons with the Tartars of Northern China. Had hag Bsbadeor been true to his engagements he might at the same time have entered Chinese Tierney, and added corny a handsome province to the dominions of his Nepanlese Majesty. Even now, we think, a clover readopt at the court of Khatruandoo might turn the tide in our favour. Supported by our subsidies, Nepaal might extend her boundaries far into Chinn° Tartary, while the morel effect of being attacked, both at the tonne sod the two extreme', would be felt all over the empire. It is scarcely to be expected, however, that sack a judicious ►ine of policy will be pursued. The executive will mat probably content themselves with siend%g reinforcements up the Petho, and directing all their energies egeinst Pskin. By this means we may destroy the capital, but it La questionable whether we will be able to obtain • periner.ent peace. Kew Geeottte.—Next Bentley will be the last Sunday this year of the Royal Palace Plessureegrounde and raw Arboretum Wag open to the public, en they clam for the memon on Friday, the 30th Met. These extensive and magtratent gardens am now to ell their autumnal beauty and rplendour, ,• the follege of the immense rashly of plants, abrube, end trees, from the great diversity of lints end Ades of colour displayed by each separate group to cimp, is beautiful beyond description, forcibly reminding stilton of the exquisite beauty sad grandeur of the woods and forests of Noah America during the fell of the lee/ or Indian awn- air of ti;t7olrtiTAl the cower rvatori;:tieFeitedtesee, sad tt.e two museums In the Botanical Oudot, elm et 6 o'clock. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, LIVERPOOL, TOTSPAT. The screw steam4hip Indian, Capt. Smith, from Quebec on the 10th instant, arrived here tli , s morning, bringing about 100 passengers On the 11th inst., off Anticosti Light, the Indira passed the steamer Anglo-Saxon, hence for Quebec. The removal of the departments of the Cenadisn government to Quebec steadily continued, and the whole would be completed in about a week, when the Governor-General would proceed to the ancient capital. In the absence of political events the question of the 'hip canal through Lake St. Peter, between Quebec and Montreal, had been a prominent topic of discussion. The canal was made by the harbor , - commissioners of Montreal, who want the govern ment to assume the debt on the ground that the work is a public one. Mr. Brown, the leader of the opposition in Upper Canada, asserts that the work is a looal one, and a warm discussion is the result. The latest New York papers contain no news of importance. The New York Republican State Convention bad nominated its candidates for state officers at the ensuing election, and the nominees were none of them amen from the " American" party, so that there is no chance of an amalgamation between the two parties. The Republicans of New Jersey, Intheir State Convention, had nominated Mr. C. S. Olden u their candidate for governor. A fire in Norfolk, Virginla, had destroyed pre party valued at 40,000 dole. The Jew York Daily Times says : The seizure of the Wand of San Juan by General Hersey, we are Informed by our special Washington ootrespoudest, was entirely upon his own responsibility, and without any faineance& from Washington. No dou'ot is entertained by the adminirretion that the meter will ba immediately end amicably adjoined, as the question of the ()neon bounds y now with the ocentaiasioners appointed for it. deteradniuon. The action of our troops is conaldend of no importance as affictieg the result. The limo York Herald lays :—" Bather Angelo Charini walked a tight rope 160 feet high and 560 long at Jones' Wood, near New York, on the 7th, stood on his head midwayof the rope, and performed other antics elle Blondin." A conditional contract had been made between the Post-office Department and Commodore Vanderbilt for the conveyance of California mails, in the event that the Johnston contract should, as is expected, fail to be carried out. (sr Durum AND mom irsoirrrto TILEGILAPIL) QUBENSTOWN, TVESDAT Nioar. The steamer City of Washington, from New York 10th, arrived here at midnight, bringing 40 cabin and 233 strews passengers, and 613,429 do' , . "t specie. She landed 44 petsengers, and prcoeedrd for Liverpool at 1 a.m. dOCIMINT TV TEE 877141113 EXPRESS. SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNEBDAY MORNING. Intelligence has been received from the Channel Wends to the effect that the South Western Company's Mesmer Eimer., which le:: Southampton yesterday morning at six o'dock, went on a rock off Jersey, where she is now stranded. The mails and parmesan are safe. The cum• piny hes rent the steamer South Weems with men and ma teriakt to render r violence. It is hori the Express will to got off by 'he morning's tide. VIE DISASTER IN CHINA. The following is from a letter from Captain Venaittert, who wee vary severely wounded in this Wel:- tenets affair : " Her Majesty's Ship Magicienne, July 2, Off the Pettier. " My dear —, —lsm at present on my back, Mktg ra! left*, and with a wound in my neck. Oar entry throngs the Peiho forte, instead of being peaceable, was the very reverse. Our gunboats fought ruoet gallantly, and Brad for upwards of four hours with the 'tamest precision, at the end of which period several of them were in a slaking state, and wee obliged to run on shore to save thenaeivee, landing the Marines and lending parties. Oar men pasted bravely on in the face of a very Leavy Ike from the Sure that brought them down in numbers, I myself falling near the Bret ditch. The retreat, after some time, had to be sounded, oar loss being over 300 killed end wounded. Among the dead are Major Nl.Ketina (Royale), Lieutenants Clatterback, lesson, and Graves. Among the wounded are the admiral, Captai ns Shedwell and myself, Willis (slightly), Colonel Lemon,and Lieutenant Williams Rine. The enemy fought like Rumiana—no five, a total sitence, all the masked, and their firing wee moat accurate and well sustained. They were cbiedi the Amcor tribe, the Mow* end I should think very many Russian deserters. Thar flint two chains were out ow the fteh. The third wet • bonier 160 feet 1n widtb, composed of timber, chair", and all kinds of things. Iron spike. were also her all epees places. The French lost 4 killed end 8 wounded at of 60. The American Commodore most kindly &misted as In towing up the Merinos." FUNERAL OP Mi. BRONZL, C.F.— Yesterday morning the mortal remains of leramberd Kingdom Brows, Esq., were interred to Keneal-green Cemetery. The funeral procession, which was of • private tharaver, left Doke street, Westminster, the lee residence of the deemed, at nine o'clock. The wisp consisted of four mounting combos, containing the principel relatives of the decreed and also the following gentlemen, diatingeithed in engineering 'ciente Mr. Stepheneov. Mr. Field, Mr. lieekettaw, Mr. Welke, Mr. Kendall, Mr. Charlie Mabry, end numerous others. Twelve carriages belonging to Blends ofthe deceased follow 1 the precision. The whole of the homes in the immediate vicinity of the decesed's resideece, in Duke-street, dosed their shops cod windows in token of reelect. At the cent tery • large number of gentlemen connected with the Society of Civil Engineers and the profeeeion geoerally assembled sad followed the procanion to the grave. Tuc GREAT EASTERN.—Mr. Francis Faller writes to • Weaponry I yam a passenger from Black wall to Portland, sod in common with every other plumage law Mr. Russell on the bridge between the psddlerbexce re ceiving directions either from Captain Hammon or the pilot (who stood together upon the paddle-box en Mr. ReFeelre right hind), end conananiCaltng those direer ions to the per sons in charge of both the screw and peddle eaginee. At the close of one first day's trip, when everybody was cm gradating everybody upon having escape a the dongerore turns of the river, and on eased arrival at Put ewe, 1 eked Mr. Resell why so many coals and shavings end so next duet and dirt were Nit to blow about on deck, at the awe time researkerg that the shavings wore continually blueing into the engine-room. Mr. Rusaell's reply was 'lt Is very wrong, be I can't inierfrre, as the ship is in charge of the maven.' On the sewed morning I sew • man emptying a large box of staving, to the wandered of the vessel, which were being blown back and into the engine. room. I then heard Mr. Russell exclaim, ' Pray don't do that—you will slop and moil the engine.!' Tote was the only order I heard Mr. Rusaell give, iodependeetly of those communicated to him by the captain or pil,,L The decks were then In such • state of dirt that ninny of the pamengers wars complaining of ea they were corkers the malted and dirt on their shoes into the ealoone, and thee spoiling the beautiful comets. Mr. locum, one of the direct, es, wee appeared to on the subject, who said, I will Eke to it, ea it e very disgraceful, and ought not to he permitted.' " SOLDIERS Whits.—The first party of the Winn and familia of soldiers earring in India embarked last Mond, off Tilbury Fort, in the ship Verne rn, and are now rea dy for era. The Vortigern Is a fine vessel of over 1,000 tuna end is chartered for the voyage by the Emigration Cammis sionees, under the directions of the Horse Onarde. She convey to Calcutta the women and children if the 42nd and 82nd Foot, and the Zed and Red battalions of the Ride Brigade. The Tema is fitted with Dible's ventilating apre rat us, which distributes fresh sir Iluonghout the 'tween decks, with large and commodious bathe, and with berths on the most approved Flee for the accommodation of frontal and children, for whom, sleo, a suit.ble and munitions dietary has been provided. The veeteel was early in the morning inspected by Mr. Walcott, the *tants") , to the emigration temmisaioners, accompanied by Mr. Cooper and Captain Lean, tie government emigration (Meer for the pert. Each women had pre viouely metered the govern meat alluwaner of IT. and 10e. for cub child, to provide the requisite outfit for the voyage. The women and children appeared to be In the beet heeith and spirits, and full of bop at the proepect of p fining their husbands sad percale, from whom they have been so long separated. They were all meet comfortably clothed end equit ped for the voys ee, any deficiencies in their outfit having been supplied ondet the direction of the Commanderrin•Chia out of funds placed at hie disposal by the Central Society for tette/Mg the condition of &Niers' Wires. Proceeding in the same vessel was a guard of married soldiers belonging to the 42nd and 82nd Regiments, who will do duty Curiae the voyage am oonetablea. The most suitable of the women had been et Ironed to act as matron., teachers, Mann., tcc., end on the whole, every pave appears to have bete taken to promote during • long and tedious voyage the heath ani comfort of, perhaps., the most remarkable body of paseoegers that have as yet left this country Ear say part of the dominions of Ores* Britain.' • PORTRAIT OT ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE PECnELL, BAkT.—We (lirighnin announce with much *ewe that the c ,tomtits for carrying out the design as yobbo testimonial to our excellent her ugh member, Sit Gores Per.hell, came to a resolution on Monday to merge Mr. Downed to pellet the gallant admirer,. lortrait, 'bleb le intended to grace the Pavilion or the Townhall. 01111 i This be the usual c and a lari servios at sermon WI second mat Matthew's the iambi a Latin Howell, SI Orford. I traduced is clans 1041 11 now there should hay auditory 01 bably be 01 which they Mr. £ 1 College, 0. rally regar one of theft the city of the forma • considers educated it meat of sr' and every I -- The am Kr. A. 1 oration, al J. Webata Marrs. 7. At tlis expefloes Lord M The no week that deaths by yeses 1849 retansed di rage rate c Let t® yai I~st we small-pox. rises to 36, There is as roes from f theris were south sub: Yils•sed, I wish Arcot diphthei dectssee, tl $2. Five 2 of which Asiatic c Passion-rt died of cho It has b Northampt afford the workpeople ache whet ndon so layers 2 die layers' &A 6, of carpet whoa 1, of pltoteront , ` Last wee children, w bg weeks was 1,606. The Ca Dvaty Ca Dr. Led gate of 191 mad oubtuifi meat. The folio I have court, : the rear of that the wo bon of eon hays micro. way to Thr ancient:de u s ci b f i r s ee are hat thi of a nelgbb that they et emu& fc made to in effluvia wh of Mr. Wot visited the for such will cause t ?eyed to 11 compliehed for the cab completed distrims fro 93 deaths, years of sr wards. Io viz., 25 boy MIDDL' tbo buriAto c b r a u h r z a a at trill= of tb, London. M oa behalf of Wan Iml cm Smith, of 1 to/votive L Servatlve & to Mr. Jam *Woo oat ELLCTI tarn shows Bentinck, 310/.14a. 6 ueoppeeed will be foul last women The pried' 314, and in rote. TAE Oi fig yesterd Association the chair, I reports rye eppesre the ploy meat isetiGn in heretics to I gentosl sa obtained."- chairmen, seemed tai anal had