The Express. — London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

H ARMONIITMS-NEW 110DKL—C7.Amml, mama am 0.. tr. sesoisea. MHZ DAILY NNW'S: LONDON MORNING im. , P aMr=rredwitiliC i l.......ao la Se alma Red lobe * * ~la aew—la lbe el lek Ism glesets, spa la the led* etan a* bbeim arneablasi b se ear. wafts& bed ****7 pint l ei mil Priol l l 10 a SW. SWAIM tip INTL o b s zret7 SO alma So fit, WI Vila I WORT. U U Ell *mama LIMMI a Week* r& lbw. realm Ihru al iCtemer a q w erresi i r=. be ibeira . e=we h ti b iateTr i 1111 1/1. be el er• beelleerarenwas la be blaglem es ea a ll e rb ~n lbe _lemma pa al s Nile. OM ame pbaiber ft alb be ..... ._ sera et awe iamb blas la abbb I b aft pa exiiim PE. .., 1 ammo * Abase *Yr. ICU Oxpreoo. TO oomerowDzins. verthemenie laleadul In dr "Tb• Swear Li p4l, art beat limp Oft% 1111 Beemid e .d r esi. by Two ort IS 'Dew at yellkolim DIOST-LARIL Taw Vamps. TON CROWN DIAMOND& 0 H. &NI irrAwww, AA w. Dor Ppo—Awir n = Diwriwessa..—Owb mow poW RAT MAUI? M Tan WEIPTIPS. CHID CP. Mr. O. Malkyrs.Tll aBA I Wail D. lir Msr.. (I.Malim, Kr. Crikeura.—* T MOTS Ma al MAI D . Kr. awl KK.. Malarr&—Arra JACK, PROM O&MO/1.—Commais T. TILI NONE& TWO iveas4 lATIRO TOO TADT.—AM MUCH ADO ADOOT TOTEM. EL mod ItrA C. lao.—Ounoue . 11111T4111111A. Tun swam sus mous En WRIT. Mom Sandi. OW •Qms•••=4 W. . ta wahamealp .tia VITO lIN OF C ll DMA& MIND\ 01110111•11 6 O. Mr. as 4 Wm Oates. WON warn AT LONDON SWOON. sr rsav —Denitaa 1 it i0.....— ::: 1, .. lift. wane •—liamia, Ma-- LONDON. SATURDAY, NOV. 20. Own valued New York correspondent informed se, in a resently published letter, that Presi dent BiNSON, of Liberia, has been vindicating himself ia America am well as in England from the charges made against him in connexion with the 'Wino QS I I affair; and our correspondent adds, " It moms now to resolve itself into a question " of veracity between him and the French officials.' This Liberian ease most still be looked to. The Am Bens aewspapen call on the Colonisation Beeisty to explain past intimations aids the French Inreaoa'' agents ; the Colonieetion Society calls oe the Liberian authorities to explain, in like man ner; and the Liberian authorities give the lie direct to the Enration's agents and officers, through whom the partievlare have been mainly furnished. Thee stands the matter in regard to past events, when the news is given oat in Paris that all is to go 'smoothly in Liberia henceforth, in rested to the immigration scheme : that there is to be • &veering President, who will give active easistabee were the present one has afforded obstruction: and that this new President, whoever he is, will be Bo- Wailed with by Kings and Chiefs of many districts 17 Kinge,9 Chieftains, 38 towns, and the Sovereigns of Dahomey and Benin. Such is the apparatus for eupplynag victims to the slave ships and the French *Amine ; and if this account is tree, it will not do to leave Liberia and Cape Mount unwatoked because the Emperor of the Fax:ectt is going to give up his bargain. It must be first ascertained whether or sot this announcement is one of those enormous astraths--one of thaw items of " false news" which the Rantshon's system of repression of simple news Is always creating. But if it should turn out to be tunny degree true, the patrons and allies sr raw* Amerman end Veropean, must Keep an eye on the little Republic, knowing that there will never be a Lek of ►uyers of as many soirees as their Kings and Chiefs are tempted to selL Some of the circumstances look us if the story was false. " ROBKATS " is spoken of as the President who is not re-elected, on account of his opposition to the French scheme; whereas President BENSON is the man. lie baa been Preeideat for two years ; he now charges the French agents with gross false hood, and declarer that he opposed the exportation of negroes ; and ROBIRTS was never accused, as far u is known here, of any unwillingness to second the French Furtaoa's purposes. Here is, then, a mistake to begin with. Bat this mistake rather goes to confirm the truth of the rest. When we Ent heard of the case of the Repass Clefi, the President was represented se in entire accord with the French officials ; as having sane timed and encouraged their scheme, aided them to procure the negroes, taken their mousy, and even petitioned that they would draw their supply of labourers from his territory. All these allegations have been denied in the most emphatic way, as our naders have seen, by President BENSON, in a letter which appeared in oar columns on the 92nd ult. It is the misfortune of Mr. Betc4ov, ea it will long be of every ruler of Liberia, that the world is, and must for some time continue to be, distrustful of ell professions against slavery and the Slave-Trade which come from that quarter. The origin of the settlement and the history of its early years are tee well known to admit of an unsuspicious state of mind in the hearers of such professions; bat it must strike everyone that the recent French newe, that the Liberian President has been ousted on account of his opposition to the Im migration scheme is in direct contradiction to the French narrative of the case of the Regina Cali Ilir. Basso% is entitled to the benefit of this evident). and till his statement& are answered it stands ea serted that he refused, in letters which are pro ducible, to permit the French to establish depots for their labourers, because such depots would be too like slave barracoons to be legal ; that be repeatedly warned his visitors of the consequences of carrying away any emigrants but those who freely offend themselves ; and that he cautioned the French odious against remaining mars than four days at any see point of the num, as persons brought from the interior would certainly not be voluntary emi grants. President Hanson's statemente have been abundantly published ; they present a damning ease against the French ofileiab ; and they have not, as far as we know, been replied to. Thee, we have the original French narrative first: next. the President's story, in direct opposition to almost every point of it : and new, finally, the Preach news that the President I. ousted, on aooount of hie hapenstisability in regard to the French scheme. Unison new facto arise, the world will believe President Bassos. Thaw in another view disclosed by the same story, whisk will be more interesting to everybody —sa lsa it is Pread. nr Harrene. If he is ousted for this muss itesigned, it is clear that the pablio—or the baslese of the electoral ►ody'—ia Liberian's strongly la favour of the French atriums. This is the broad Mat to the European Powers to watch the Republic and its onsets. The readiness of the citizen• to sell some of their innumerable and hopeless vagrants is an old story; and eertainly the tempts• tion is very strong. It appears that there has II Mir ya, for any permanency, been food enough in the territory to feed the people upon it ; sz,d yet the United States keep sending beings, without property or misery. At one time the green plume; at another time palm', to eat the cabbage at ea South Sea islanders, who forethought. It is the very place quarters of the Messrs. REGIS of Europe and Ame rica and the coast must be watched, whatever the icsmon's decision may be. Another consideration is that the Slave Trade may be carried on otherwise than from the nearest shore. Nile travellers know that very well; and so do the explorers of Algeria. Patriotic' Frenchmen boast of the prospect of Algeria being the highway by which African product' of every kind will reach the other continents. Of all African pro ducts slaves are popularly reckoned the most lucre aye article; and the transit of that commodity through Algeria will have to be watched. For this last consideration we have time before us. As to the other, not a day's melanoma's can be permitted. The American Government has just sent to Liberia a cargo of recaptured negroes, who are no more at home there than in South Carolina, and who might just as easily have been sent to their homes, near Labenda. While such helpless beings are sent to a colony which is underfed and bare of work, and for ever overflowed by a new deluge of hungry paupers, while slavetreders and Imperial agents are hovering round, to pick up a cargo of colonial immigrants at so mach a had, to serve without wages and without hope of return, it is the duty of England and her true allies to see that there is no foul play that they can prevent. Ir is some comfort to think that we are quietly getting through great part of the debate on the first reading of the forthcoming Reform Bill, before the meeting of Parliament. In the face of the eventualities, as the French would say, that impend over the fate of that measure, we had always made up our minds to the painful necessity of hearing every Member of Parliament deliver himself on the general features of the (motion. The sad experience of many long dis cussions of aniverselly interesting subjects led us early to foresee that the worst and most waste portion of the talk-flood would seek vent for its diffusive gush 1./ore, and not after, the details of the measure Mies to be closely discussed, or the practical sum ef the emstieting tendencies of the plan could be emierately calculated or known. After what we have witnessed on Budget nights, , when the CIWICILLOR 111 the EXCHEQUER was down, and sensible men were gone home, to ruminate slowly the massthey had been forced to swallow whole, we were prepared for any 'moult of slip-slop profes sions of fairness, platitudes about are for the in terests of all classes, and of circumspection and wish to preserve the spirit of oar ancient institutions, upon the introduction of the new Reform Bill. We weld fain hope that the mild, and for the most part =mowing commonplaces which we have been an esersing for the last three months may be permitted to serve instead of a tire nights' desultory and in ' eimempential debate on the ministerial motion for leave to lay the long-looked-for project before the House. We shall thus save time ; and on the seen of humanity we ought really to be scared the in diction of such speeches as that of Mr. MURRAY Donwe at Greenock the other day. Ms too many others of the political melon to which he belongs, the Member for Greenock seems to be thinking only of the various objections that may be urged to the Government scheme, whatever that scheme may be. The timid and half-hearted are told that Ministers may, in their wish to gain' popularity, go farther in the way of franchise exten ass than was at first supposed. How far that may be Mr. DUNLOP does not pretend to say; only he begs all elderly gentlewomen to remember that he told them beforehand it would be too far; and " too far," of coarse, he is ready to vote it. But in a busy, ambitious hive like Greenock there must of course be a " good few" of a different political age and sex, whose permission It is desirable for their mem ber to gain when he meditates doing a little faction. Bo we have another ground of objection ready made, namely, that no expansion of the household principle would provide for the case of " clerks not settled " down in life , and rising mechanics who might " perhaps, be the very elite of their clams." How very considerate and candid! No plan that does not comprehend everybody who ought to be comprehended, and which does not ex clude all who ought to be kept ont,will Mr. MURRAY DUNLOP willingly vote for. How can he tall the an occupation franchise fixed at U., or at any other figure, would not leave out some individuals who might perhaps be the very cream of their clam? and, therefore, because this sensible man is not sure of hie mouthful of crtam, he is ready to knock over the pail that may hold some gallons of milk. There are consistent and honest men who say, better have no particular poundage named as a test, but let every householder rated or liable to rates have the suf frage. If the liberal electors of the three kingdoms were polled to-morrow, there is not a doubt that a vast majority of them would dealer* in favour of that which is called the municipal franchise, be cause with some reservations the present suffrage in municipalities amounts pretty nearly to this. Let nobody, however, suppose that the Scotch Palmeri touian who had just quitted the company of the Duke of ARGYLL to meet his assembled constituents, is by any means prepared to go in for the municipal franchise in preferenoe to any other. Not at all: he has heard daring his sojourn in England of ear -1 tain "soot and lot" voters (he forgets to say where) who are very corrupt; and most liberally and logi eally he thence insinuates that a municipal franchise would flood all innocent Scotland with the evils of venality. Has the honourable gentleman never heard of anything of the kind among the existing class of Parliamentary electors north of the Tweed? I • • t • Or m Jost or rational to argue from the fact, that became in some dozen decayed and dingy boroughs a few scare hangers-on of the old rotten system have taken messy as voters by right of scot and lot, the vast oemmunity resident in towns throughout the United ffiagdoat who pay local and general taxes are liable to the general suspicion of electoral ear. raption ? As for the Ballot, that is of course des patch/4 in the usual hoity-toity s tyl e , an d s h rew d IGreenock is asked to gulp the worn-out nonsense about destroying the manly independence of Britons, by allowing the poorer sort of them to vote for the gut time in their lives as they please. Well, as we WWII to have seek a speech against any and every Reform Bill that is likely to be brought in next session, we an glad to have it over; and we have sly to beg that Mr. MURRAY Dustor may net think it necessary some evening in February next to go through the same performance from one of the Opposition benches of the House of Commons. We mast not omit to notice, however, symptoms of an opposite kind which appear in other directions. At Colchester last week Mr. OUILDON ARROW did his best to set hisseelf right with his constituents on affairs in general j sot knowing, of course, what ao admits might lie in the lap of the inscrutable future. There is no mistake about the likings or leanings of !be Member far Colchester. A fairer sample need alt be leolted for of the thorough-going Whig per.. keep in his aseve a fur tive excuse for not keoping his word, that he was satisfied the municipal franchise would be the right thing, and that he meant to go for that. Of coarse the people of Colchester liked him all the better for not trying to shirk the question till Par liament should meet, in order that he might leave himself free to be hustled into some party division, el some topographical crotchet about redistribution seat or the like. It is vain to conceal from our that a deep-laid and deliberate plot is hatching ill prevent any Reform Bill being oarried next year. We shall have a great deal more to say upon this subject ere long. ', he and like WU court. WINDSOR, Nov. 19. The Dachau of Kent (attended by Lady Anna Marla Dawson and Sir Gawp Cowper) sad the Masts of Leiningen, dined with her Majesty yeaterdsy. The Dena of Windsor and the Has. Mr.. Wellesley bed the Laser of being invited. The Bond of the 2nd Life Guards woo In attendance In the Cast* sad performed the ltereti. " 71; Tome laande ertimea. n Frew Nagle,- I!l. l:s i t&iial IVA Polka Iliaararka . ..... ........ Her Mejeety's Private Berl attertrieds mimeo. hi the Drew/tag-room the : Orretwo, " Warm Idnenr flaMliaa Obedii" . ..... Cradling Tlyollinas Conned ded Lir de Dana *radio rad Poloomin ... Atl4lF. The Queen, with Prinos Arthur end Prime Leopold, walked In the grounds adistaing the Castle this morning. The Prince Consort, .Graded by Colossi the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps and Colonel the Hon. A. Hsrdingit, wont to day to Shoebusyness to wham MOON gun prootioe. A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing -street. The Ministers present were :—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Dimeli,the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earle( Mal mesbary, Sir E. Balvrer Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Bir Anthony Rothschild had aa Ingerview with the Chan cellor of the Eschatpter. Praises, ALlezenel= the Astertows Coatatissioner, had also en Lakeview with flee tight hoe. gen /ham yesterday, at his rellaW mama in Downing-skeet. Despatches were received at the Colanisl-odioe yeitarday from the Governors of the North Armin= Proving= and the Governor of Yalta. Desgsgebes were sent to the Governor of Hong-Hoag, Ceylon, snd the Mauritius. (mom wan , Insay's oAzarrs.) Arin-oinCn. Nov. 18.—ne Queen bee been gra -4°1•17= to live orders for the appoiatment oi Dr. He to be en Resorery Mambos of the Civil DM- A= of the Ater Third Clem, or Companions, of the Nun Honour- AM of the Be& FoasioN-orrica, Nov. 19.—The Quesa bas beea =lto approve at liana Milroy litothatti* as Omag h' Leaaaa kr hit Majesty tie ito of Arias at Mr. Hasty Mr. B. Brows to b. Coma at HAM . be all; Usage awes el anodes ; a.d of Kr. Bawd Rasta* as Vito-Comal at Itaittatme tar Oa Sobs Osalldalatiaa. ST. JAN is's PALACE, Noy. 16.—Tbo Qom has been plowed, ca the neeetnetios of the Eight Hon. the Bari of finsewebtury sad Whet, to appehet Frohnie Stooks Bendsy, Esq., one of bee llejsetre Hanaggebie Cogs of Gentlemen et-trms, vies Charles Lockhart Itebetteen, , resigned. Caows-orrics, Nov. 19.—Msueber returned to eons in the present parliament : City of Maocheeter— Theism Henley, . Seq., in the room of Bir John Potter, Knight, deceased The Prince Consort is sitting to Mr. Theed for a color/4 boot, to be placed in the Wellington College. Mr. Bally has been commissioned to execute a marble bast a the Coteasender-in-Cblef. The Record calla attention to the probability and usdetirablenese of the Prince of Wales spending part of the epprosehing tinter In Roan. His Hilltuns' Totursoon Pacha, son of the Wang of Rapt, accompanied by Su. Moms and Led, Woratsgure, arrived at Dome oa Thursday evening. After reamiting the night at the Royal Ship Rotel, the young prince huh ea afictionata leave of Sir Moss and Lady sod esabuted yesterday morning In the South Eastern Balmy Geopeay's stsam•psckat the Queen of the Preach, Ceplala Yardman, for Calais. The Duke of Bedford is receiving a succession of Meals at Woburn Abbey, Beds. Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Min Carrington left Whitehall yesterday on a visit to the Dake of Belford at Woburn Abbey. . - Sir Thomas and lady Fremantle entertained the Right Hon. Sir John sad Lady Pakington and a Want circle at dinner last evening, at the =union in Upper Sir Joseph slid Lady H►wley have left the St. Osorge's Hotel. Mr. Gladstone, M.P., has passed through Berlin on his Ws7 to the lonian Weeds. We are glad to state that the Ladies Lacy and Harriet Bridgernan are programing ea favourably es the severe nature of thek Injuries admits of, and strong hopes are entertained of the recovery of both the saffsrers. The Berl of Bradford and Lord Newport are slightly Injured In the hands, but well In health. Lady Newport is uninjured. We (Maidstone Journal) regret to hare to an nounce the death. at the age of ten, of the youngest son of Charles Wykshan Martin, Eq., M.P., w►ile pursuing hie stadium at Eton. Hs was suffering from • Revere attack of dipthsria, width, after • brief illness, resulte4 in death. The sad *vest lee played his ferody into profound grief, ren dered mere pedgirst by the ocasideretion el the pronakdag period of life at wide\ he had be.. all adt _ Mr. Buckstone re-appears on Monday evening, at kis 01.11 theatre, dew hie shout Mania( visit to Liverpool. ilir W. Don and Lady Den saw endepti ger a limited number of Witte, and will make their dust apparent* an the Hay market beard' on Howdy week. _ _ Mr. Aldridge has finished as engagement at Riga amidst datecastratioaa of delight seek as ono* rewarded Hailer or Togliatti, mune! by the plienliallOS of a silver nugget front the Ural mountains by Pilaw llama. He Is new on his trey to ISt. Petersburg, engaged to lodge at the Czar's expense, to rids in the Caor's coach, end sppear twelve time. at the 'export.' Theatre, at OM a night. The effects of the late Mr. Harley, the favourite cessielen, are announced for sale on Tateday and Wednes day nett. The collection of theatrical miscellanea is latiosettag. Mr. }faille's " SatansHa" is said to be reserved for this opals( of th Coyest Gerdes season of English opera. It is said that open in English it not to owe at Drury-Yoe biomass Mies 1.. Prase sampaar Is about to leave the theatre. The preparations for the greet Handel Festival, which is to be held at ftyclialtam la lane next, lave already berm ; the atawereest, as last year, lying i• tba Sunda of the flamed Harteoeic Society. The New Musical Society is about to give grand isaarta during the wawa, coadacted by Mr. Mellott, is boa- Jomies with a chars' mined by Mr. Stuart. -- __ M. Meyerbeer's new work, without a chortle, provisiosellp railed Ditiorah," has been put late study at the Opera Coatique, Paris. M. Berlioz is said to have Bawd nee greed opera en the Siege of Troy, for which he ►feesif ►as written the Libretto. M. David's Lett Does of Hervideneepos Is in rammed se the Greed Opera. Mr. Albert Smith arrived in London en ilanday lama& alter an abeam of lora Yee beer maths, denser whiekh perked he hr bees to Canine eon hack. lie is fa en- Where Wink and spirits. Bekee in ileng-Itmg be pme a ealcodoa fen hie Moat Diem imisnaiamme, ihr the bank of the amiss par, Ned snigiatd for Yee upwards of Mei. The resale sr that he was wird open ►y the Mom, and bores la irimeirel preemie mon Ito eh,. 43ClikESS FROM PAXIS. is "' _4l_ • * most ova OWN 00111.111NONDIZT.3 PARIS, Famit „ Wpm m The' ee t billitnent of a new bank pub* works is thought to be a preliminary to the treat lotion of M. Hauasmann, from the Prefecture of the l &ins to the Ministry—an appointment which has been long talked of. M. Heinemann enjoys the especial confidence of the Emperor in regard to the management of financial matters. The moat im portant clause in the decree of to-day is Article 7, which empowers the new bank to issue paper, " limited, however, by a resolution of the munici pality sanctioned by the Emperor." It must be borne in mind that the municipality of Paris is nominated by the Emperor. Madame Magnan (the wife of the marshal), who has been ill for the last two months, died this morning from the 000sequenem of a typhoid fever. Count Welewski, who had quitted Compiegne for Paris, was bent for by a telegram from the Em peror, last night, in obedience to which he left the Foreign-oMce this morning. M. de Pair% the Portuguese ambassador, who has been represented by a portion of the European press as having arrived in Paris, is, I am told, indis posed in London, where he arrived from Lebon se route for his post. M. de Thoavenel, who arrived at Marseilles yes terday from Constantinople, proceeded to Mont pelier, where he will stay for a few days. He is not expected in Paris till Nov. 26. A letter from St. Omer mentions a rumour that a camp of from 3,000 to 4,000 men will be formed at Helfaut this winter. The Bourse hag been in a fluctuating state. The Rents closed with a rise of 10c. for cash, and a fall of sc. for account at 74fr. 700. and 74fr. 800. Mo bilier fell 2fr. 50c. Railways were a shade lower, but there was very little change. Another sudden change of the weather has taken place in Paris. The soft rain and mild temperature of the last three days have given place to a sharp frost, with a keen north-seat wind. These atm*. spheric variations have oonsiderably affected the public health, which bat the other day was so ex tremely good as to call for special remark, anti there are now many cases of fever in the hospital. THE ANGLO-SAXON. (IT DIAONITIO (mow ova owx e LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. The steamer Anglo-Sarno, from Quebec, Bth instant, pawed Donaghadee at six o'olook this morning. She is due to night. THE UNITED STATES. (TllOll Otll OFICIAL 00111SPONDINT.) NEW YORK, Nov. 2. To-day business is partially suspended ; the courts do not sit, and in every ward long rows of expectant voters may be seen ranged along the side walk, waiting their turn to deposit their ballots. Since the police reform last year the elections have been very peaceably conducted, though the two which have occurred in the interval have been more than usually exciting. A few years ago, even three years ago, it was dangerous for any but a well-known Democrat to approacn the polls. The police was in the hands of the Mayor and the City Judge,both poli tical adventurers of the worst kind, and they inva riably refused to interfere in election disturbances. The consequence was that the candidates on both sides hired pugilists or fighting men of various "arms," to protect their own supporters, but as the gentlemen of the fist mostly belonged of late to the Democratic party, the whip and their successors, the Republicans, have generally had the worst of it. The mode of proceeding adopted by "the physical force " party was, early in the morning, to overturn and smash all the booths erected by their opponents for the distribution of the ballots containing the names of their candidates; then to station a party of men near each polling place, who threatened and cuffed everybody who approached who was sus pected of belonging to the opposite side, besides keeping up a series of sham battles amongst them selves all day, accompanied with prodigious bowl ing, to frighten away the timid and the decent. The coup do grace was, however, reserved for the evening. Every polling place which was suspected of containing a majority for the other aide wee then deliberately taken by assault, gutted, and the bal lots destroyed, or a large supply of the "right ticket" introduced by main force. Even to those fami liar with the reminiscences which have oome down to us of Irish elections in the good old days of the 40s. freeholders, this may seem an exaggeration; but such is not the case. What I have been relating occurred in the large cities, and particularly in New York, as regularly as the elections themselves. In fact, intimidation and ballot-box smashing was organised at one time, not very long ago, into • re system, under the auspices of "Captain" Rynders, now United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York, under the Buchanan administration. This gentle man was president of a club of pugilists, gamblers, and rowdies—ruffians of various kinds, who im plicitly obeyed his orders, and were present on all public occasions. Before each election the various candidates made offers for their services, and they let themselves out to the highest bidder, very much like the Free Companies in the Middle Ages. They were about 600 or 700 in number, were known as the "Empire Club," had their own watchwords, were very thoroughly . drilled in their work, and very well disciplined. Under the cap tain's directions they accordingly attended the various polls, protected the voters of their em ployer, broke the heads of his opponents, sma s h e d ballot-boxes which they thought likely to tell against him, and in fact left nothing undone, whether legal I or illegal, to secure his return. This useful body had for some time a very suoosssful career. The law did not interfere, as most of its officers owed their places to Rynder's instrumentality; but at lest the public indignation became thoroughly roused. Counter organisations were formed by the better' class of American mechanics, who armed them selves, and threatened to exterminate the " Empire Club." The latter thereupon vani.hed in thin air, and its work has never ono, been attempted on so great a scale. Greater efforts to preserve order, sad make some approach to purity, have been made every year, seder the pressure of the Slavery agitation, by the better class of citizens. As long as the leading political issues were not more exciting than the tariff, or " federaliste," " respectable" people, and religious people left polities and electioneering to the ruffians and grog shopkeepers; but of late years the Anti- Slavery crusade has elevated voting into the rank of a religious duty. It is preached from the inoet,l popular pulpits, and in the columns of the best jour nals, as ous of the first amongst the obligations of the Christian. The feeling thus created has of course been strengthened and intensified by the border ruffianism in %Lune, and the abandoned pro fligacy of the present administration. The only political questions of the day are also moral ques tions of the deepest interest, and a large number of the clergy now exhort their people to go to the poll as they do to attend the sacrament. The effect is not only very great, but really very solemn. I heard Henry Ward Beecher, on the Sunday night before the I'M presidential election, addless an im mense audience upon their duties in the crisis then pending, and can answer for ft that it would be impossible for an audience even half as excitable as an American one to have listened unmoved, when he solemnly called upon the songregation. "as they would answer for it at the lest day, to interpose their ballots between the poor and the rich, between the oppressor and the oppressed, between the strong tunin n tlie weak, ' uNke powerful and the helpless, ber ' la not ie their prayers only, bl 4 with their t f The result et this been, that the "genteel" cs have descend the arena, and have in s'' on protectiaa order at the polls. Since the new police limits come into operation, the old ruf fianism has to a great extent disappeared ; voting is 'late and easy ; rows are rue, and immediately sup pressed ; and, altogether, I think a contested elec tion rarely occurs in any of your towns now-a-days which can compare with those of New York for quiet and order. To be rare! em writing before this one is ever, and the next mail may bring you news of a disturbance of some sort before sunset; but I think I may prophecy that it will be speedily suppressed. So far all has been peaceable, and all the indications are strongly in favour of signal victory for the Republicans. The Democrats are divided up to the last moment into innumerable coteries, and adhere with unshaken fidelity to the President's Lecompton policy. I had hoped to give you some of the results, but the Berton mail closes two hours' earlier than hitherto, and the steamer sails from there. g ahiplonds of shiftier tisan. Unlike, however, many tl t tan talents, tongs:ovate tin ape. not it eidil t a people are devouring tb4 negative of ti ne they arinitting detain gory; but, the coot , tried a the Isp—u reckldhy by means" all the. can. 3 know neither want nor. low to his suiftketera ry place for the head- a man who did not keep in THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAT. The Magdalena arrived to-day with the West India mails. She left St. Thomas on the let inst. Amongst her cargo is specie in silver of the value of 440,303 dollars, and 461,851; dollars in gold. The weather in the West Indies has been of the most extraordinary nature. At the time the Magdalena lay at St. Thomas the tide rose higher than was ever known ; the sea rolled in most violently, and a number of disunited ships ran into St. Thomas for shelter. It was re ported that a ship had foundered outside St. Thomas. The Bahamas and Jamaica packets expe rienced the most frightful weather. The swell was so great at the Windward Islands that the passengers could scarcely land. All the ships met with in the Atlantic were under close reefed sails. It is believed that a fearful hurricane bad raged to the north of the. West India Wands. This weather had been experienced since the 19th ult. The Conway arrived out at St. Thomas on the Slet ult. She had experienced very bad weather ever mince she left Madeira. The wind in the West Indies hod shifted about in the most remarkable manner from the S.W. to the N.B. ; in coming from Jamaica the wind shifted about from:all points of the compass. In Honduras there had been a commercial panic, and great distress was felt. The Magdalena's mails were landed at Southampton. THB MED] MALTA, Nor. 13. Her Majesty's ship Terrible is ordered to premed to Trieste to embark Mr. Olsdetoes for the lonima Islands. Newspapers and Mho. articles by post have arrived for Prince Alfred and Ygior Cowell, ea that it is pretty dear that the Euryalue is to come to Malta. The officers of the navy appear Tory pleased with the prospect of having • royal prince among them, and intend taking great one that the army officers do not monopolise him among them. A number of anecdotes are related among the officers about the Prince, all very such in kis favour. His relative, the Prince of Hohenlohe, who otwarnands her Mansty's ship Scourge, en the coast of Syria, has been vary ill with Speer. At one time serious fears were entertained of the dissent proving fatal. Her Majesty's ehtp Himalaya arrived ow the 9th with the Sad battalion of the 9th Regiment, and proceeded on the next day to Corfu. Her Majesty's ship Vigilant left on the 7th for Tripoli, taking a health guardian with her. The sailors of the fleet are allowed freely on shore, and are behaving very well, very few of them wattling the police, though poor .Tack sairosly gets fair play in Malta; the liquor he drinks he pays very dear for, and it is of the very worst quality, adulterated in such a manner with salt and cayenne u to bedews him to drink more from the very thirst that the drink metes. The low publio-bounes sell the vilest of liquors to the mike.% whi c h sot only taw:irate., but drives them into • state of delirium, frequently injuring seriously their health.. The lower elms, who keep these dens, appear to have no Aar of detection, and carry on their wisdom' trade soder the very eyes of the police, who, as fare. I out loan, take no measures to prevent these poisonous drinks being sold. The present governor has taken some steps about these low spirit shops, by preventing women of ill fame from frequent ing deem ; and it is hoped that he will, when he him time to attend to the subject, remedy the sale of the poisonous drinks. The aide and ice creams of the natives do not appeer to have much attraction for Jack, who, however, occthionally may be sera with one, and • good deal puzzled what to do with it, but some knowing one relieve, his embarnseament by suggesting that he might mix It with ram and drink ft that way. Nor does the Malta beer, named Bavarian, qa te suit Jack's palate, nor indeed say Englishman's. On the loth November, loitering= day, Sir Joha Penne father gave a ball to all the dire. A review of the troops preceded the ball, at which a number of sailors attempted to appear in grand style on horseback, but their miaerable nags at the Grit sound of the drams beat a rapid 'retreat. On one of the sergeants of the 4th Sedation Rider, being appointed adjutant, the other sergeants had a meeting, and iron*. diately, among themselves, seheoribed to premed him with • pair of silver eandleetleks, with • suitable inscription. Lord Newb)rough, in his yacht, the Vertu, is stall at Malta. The refitting of hie yacht will require about another tottnight, when the whole party will return to England. The Marchioness of Hastings has been detained at Rome by the illness of the marquis, but will arrive at Malta on the Itch to spend the winter, the marquis proceeding to Egypt for the winter. Her Majesty's ship Desperate arrived from Athens this morning. Tar ADULTERATION OF CONPECTIONERT.—The Lamest of thin week crsataiaa • report on thaadultentlion of sugar confecitioaery, a subject Just sow posemeed of much interest, in coneoguenee of the meant wholesale polotainge at Bradford. Of 60 samples submitted to analysis, maths moat 11 only were grossina, while not leas than 34 were adulte rated. The eta aotorious " Deff " was defeated In 13 samples, together with, in most cases, large proportions of flour. The Lear was found in as many as 33 of therapies, either separately, or together with the " Daff." The hods of flour, or starch, generally employed, an potato and wheat flour but Indian corn flour was present in several of the articles, and, in one instance, sago-powder. The erect of the adulteration varied greatly, from one-fourth, one-third, to even nearly three-fourths. The confeatonery analysed consisted of Images of various kinds (laoluding ginger, myenne, and peppermint) mad Scotch mlargre, several de scriptions of comfits, conversatioe MTh., sal many other articles. The ordinary adulteration of °ornate ts with who/at e mr, which la thus cunningly employed. It is net usually mined %natty with the sugar, bat the areaway, or other seeds, are lest coated thickly with the wheat• Soar, and the an is efterwards added. The effect of this proceeding le, that when put into the month the sugar only comes into contact with the tongue ; and hence these comfits have at Antall the eirestnem of the genuine comfits. This tioa is easily dieermered, either by simply breaking the comfits areaway% when the ~less of wheat-flour may usually be readily distinguished from the outer sugar por tion, or by placing than is water, when the sugar will he dissolved, but the wheat-flour will remain, retaining newly thomillthal sine and form of the comfits. All rehrenos to the ~ions pigments employed to colour anger MAO. thetery le purposely omitted. Many of these, it is knows, =Mhighly injurious and even poisonous properties= y been noticed in the report, Mehl indeed have beat the picture revealed of the adulteration of lozenges end sager onhotionery in mmeral. The articles analysed were all purchased 4 the metropolis within the last few days, end the sweet and addreseds of the vendors. many of Asia wholesale lied marozfecturies confectioners, us given in the report EXPULSION PROM A CONvENT.—An interesting looking girl, Margaret Heaton by Rome, wee yesterday brought before the Liverpool magistrates under the following circumataaces. A police officer, who was ;swim Browubw-temet at an euty hour the same morning fund bar. minting ea sew sew sad 4 great trouble. She lad mei tamed oat of • caareat, she said, established by the Slaters of the Good Shepherd, in Priam Edwin-street, suer too, and which la also need as a pealtentiary. Daring the heating of the cam, yesterday, It was elicited that the pri soner had bees somewhat irregular ia her life, sea that her father had pieced her in • ceavent (depositing • see of money towards her mairitenantia) with a view to her refeirma don. In reply to the bench, the gist said aba wee impelled because she had been talking of the 't thine of tbde ~la " to some of the other inmate.. The ~oh, aline ladybug her to lay her tees before the priest of the diemlet, diewneed the priemer. DESTRUCTIVE Ftlll.—Yeeterday morning, between the hours of roar and Sire o'clock, a distinctive flee broke out as the premier of Mr. George Smith, sebeesordel, No. SO, Beilmal-green-coed, Meepengere were iiegstobad far the ermines of the Leaden Brigade, which arrived ta gut* ~- cession. A plentiful supply of water war obtained hat the ere was net sehdoed Wove the premise* were destroyed. The mut is unknown. The loss will fall en the rboxia CLAIM 07 A 117881 AN PRINCE TO A ' , ALYCE INHERITANCE. An interesting question has just been submitted to the French Council of State : The Emperor Napoleon, by letters patent dated the 9th of April, 1810, erected into a duchy the domain of Navarre, snd conferred it on the Empress Josephine, and on her death it pawed to her grandson, Priam AUtuit as Beauharnais, son of Prince Eugene. Prince Augustus, w h o had been duly registered as proprietor of the doh, tamed, by royal ordinance of the 6th Feb 1834, paw s o sell it, on condition of investing the procee d, in limes. Re died is 1836, without children, and his brother, Prism Maximilian, beams his heir. Among other thbigs, Priem Maximilian earns into remake of the Itcnte ken the mit domain; the anneal amount of that Rents at Arm a m 62,890 f., but by the conversion of the Five per Cents. it le to 66,601 f. Prince Maximilian married a daughter el the Emperor Nicholas of Ramis, and received the title of Duke de Lendttenberg. He died la No. yember, 1862, leaving lama. Foar years after his wid ow her Imperial Highness the Duchess de Lenektenierg, indeed from the Preach government for her eldest me, Priam Nicholas Maximilianovitds, the Armed Reds with the interest due on it. But the Minister of Finance refused te give it tip, on the _ground that the Duke de Leuchtrabmg , having beoome • Russian, and bedng qualiikd to mooed ill the Russian throne, had forfeited it. The Dachas spinet this decision to the Council of State. Not s i= that the Prince Nicholas is :Russian, the advocate c( bei Imperial highness, M. Falk*, maintained that a silkirst might pass to a foreigner, and he argued that the prince had as much right to it as hie father and uncle had. With re! = s t a o Ms succession to the Russian throne, the mid that it was perfectly Memory, r LL vas limbed from his mother, and four beenehes already steed between her and the throne, he reabileined that the Emperor Napoleon bad in. the dank to go to the family of the Empress Jose. phis* without regard to their future position, the donation being in fact made from family affection alone. The Minister of Finance, on his part, budded that the possessor of nieijoral forfeits It by voluntarily owing to be a Preis= and in proof of his assertion pointed to the fact that Bernadotte, on becoming King of Sweden, bad forfeited that which he had possessed. He showed, also, that though the elder brother of the Duke de Lenchtenberg had not forfeited his French nationality, the duke himself had dons so by re. esiving the title of Imperial Rightism from the Emperor of Russia, and without authoriution of the French government aeoepting a command in the Russian array. The minister further represented that the possessors of majored are re. paired to take an oath of fidelity to the Emperor, and that the son of the duchess, as a Russian prince, could not do so. The Council of State decided that for the reasons urged on behalf of the minister, the claim of the Duchess de laruchten berg must be rejected. 8P4N1611 INX. Nor at the vents that I rode into at noon of the next day, followed by my guide, where the paving-steass were red-hot, and the ground dazzling and blinding with the sun. The two rooms of this small Inn opened right and left from the court-yard, whose gate I entered ; the 011. kitchen, the other a store-room. I called for dinner. They had everything but beef, mutton, veal. and fresh pork. An Idiot girl, who watched me u if I was • new sort of cannibal, pointed up at a ham hanging from the rafter, and began Pp Chick and ceckle like • ben. I accepted the omen, end called for been autgs. A crowd of idle muleteers and view drown gaped end pointed at me. To appear at ease, IMk off my g smoothed out the fingers, brushed toy hat with my arm, looked down at my boots, beating my legs with my rig-wkip. All these performances were received with The children grinned, the men smiled at sack :M sv at. much as to say, " Ile is very like one of nosotent (of us) after all." The excitement I caused in that little tun Was intense. Every thing had to be fetched. Everything that I wasted wits mil-apropos, un-Bpenlah, and out cl susses, ant of time, and out of place. Water to weak--e dome red jars, knotted with cord, wars sent on the heeds of girls, half • mils of 4 to the street fountain, where the wane . ma almost boiling. The eggs were to be sought ibr be the stable-mangers end hay-scented lofts. The ham was to be eat and cooked. As for t h e melon, I know where that cams from, ke the landlord, putting on his hat with the sir cif II resolate and determined traveller, went out for it, and re turned, after ten minutes, greasily triumphant, with a largo speckled one, like a blasted alderman: hoard, in a eat. With what homely and ridiculous affectation of delighted haul tality did he, the crafty Manchegan, Instantly out ma slim, to stay my appetite. As for the idiot, she was 4:neckline, busy with the eggs; and the hard-natured mother--who emery mamma *abed with a fork at the frying-pan, sad then turned round to me and grinned--waa loerllychanced up, with • plaited straw &tearoom, a smoulder of b that gradually kindled up and grew to • lively burning crimson, from • flickering wavy yellow. At last came the dishing-up; whin, eta central rickety dial table, I set down to • basin of poached eggs fiostiog like golden rafts on •ma of black grease, in which were stranded square dark chips, like so many Madras catamarans, with all hands lost. Thin followed grapes; golden-skinned; filled with unadulterated wine of precious powers; then waxy figs, of a viscous sweet ness, tastM like a great sweetmeat pudding. Then the melon, m ar ked In grooves by nature for the knife, filled with • yellow neotaroona gold. But I forgot the wins; that took ac least half ea hour getting, because the landlord kept an wins himself, and had quarrelled or run in debt with every other landlord for • mile rotted. But he at test came back— his path marked with perspiration—griping the bottle with. hie hot steaming band. I bowed, drew out the stopple of smashed vine leaves, and posted him and myself oat a gloss. He drank it; and, smacking his lips, with • wink at Ws wife, as much as to say, " How shall I stick It on when it comes to the bill," proceeded to mop himself all over with a dirty table-cloth, lying ready for the lavenders, or wawa, woman. I found the wine a fiery, sweet, luscious Makin wino, not unlike brandied raisin. As I went up the cusldeg loft stain, for a two-hours siesta—for I had to ride on hone. back from there over the mountains— I saw the landlo a r i do down the ink-horn and begin my bill. He had just sanded it when I came down to proceed on my journey. I won't say much about it; but it wss the most imminatim bill I ever perm:ed.—Dirk/xis "lieseselssid Words.' The speeches delivered in .Westmioater Hall by prosecutors and the counsel for the dehisce, on the ocoasion the impeachment of Warren Hastings for high alms and' misilsOsanors In hie government of I dia , had e world-wide &me, from the impression they made at the time. No full report, ►oweem, has ever been printed of these elaborate harangues of our greatest orators, Burke, Fox, and Skeridea, and of their antagonists, such men so Law, Planer, and Gallia. "This want," says the Atheneum," le in course of being supplied by the public Won tinder Government, pro posed and sanctioned by Sir G. C. Lewis, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the ta hole of these speeches. They will be printed from the Gurney manuscript reporte, copies al which are extant ; and a first volume of the work will, 1111 believe, be shortly announced." Ida Pfeiffer's " Journey to Madagascar" will be published, scootiling to the last will of the lap author, by her sou, Hem Oscar Pfeiffer, who lives at Rio Janeiro, a highly esteemed pianists. The Society of Antiquaries met on Thursday even ing In their new apartments at Somerset Fromm They ham shifted their pictures to the old rooms of the Royal Society— and the first meeting of the session was strong In point of numbers and interest. The contract with the Red Bea and India Tele graph Company has been signed by the Lords of the Treasury, and the manufacture of the submarles able bta tepid proven. It is hoped that the section from Sees le Aden will be laid in the spring, and an expectation is enter tained that a oall, not exceeding 81. par share, will be seconn'y next month, and another of like amount ls January. The President of the Cnamber of Commerce of Calaia begs the Prow to ansounce that the reason why the Baldish mail cf the 16th did not arrive at the usual limn was sot that the packet could not get into Calais harbour, bat that it could ad get out of the port of Dive in coaster game of the rough weather. NBW Atoms COURTS FOR BERKSHIRE.—The erect' doa of new courts at Readier; for the edministration of Janice connected with the county will in a few days car mass. Flans having been approved by the county rasee. trans, tenders were Invited for the work, and the ante mitts; met a few days since and accepted the centred of Messrs. Myers, builders, of London. The courts whet finished will be the moat convenient and complete la the klisfiltZuthe committee having aimed at obtaining Moe that afford them advantages rather than a mere caw mental beading. The designs and plans bare been tare ebbed by Mr. Clary, architect, of Reding, an d county ser. It is proposed to have the building in cm .717t . he central station for the Berkshire constabulary, ens it will be &Una, is the Forbary, adjoining the cadent gateway of the Reading Abbey . he elevation will w' of a recessed metre, with projecting wings, faced tab iesutoae, kandoce, the lower order of the Roman Doric beteg OP meented with the lonic. The prtsoipel estrence YE lo • waiting hall of noble aspect and capacious dimendeoll having offices, fi reproof county record rooms, tied “Irr. 14 . quidte convenience attached. The Crown Court wiff approached front the left of the hall, and the Nisi from the right. The retiring•roome for the jed . 11 communicate with both. On the first floor will be the me for the grand jery, with witnesses' waiting-rooms, sod ear sanaleatioa with the gallery in court. All tits swill arrsagainents for the nee of meginratte, counsel, cement together with the lighting sad ventilation, have bate %),_ embedded by the architect, and diciest!, prorfill s Tle in con cjade traot th of e . 11 .p me nws re. ahtylieregbiamfor, warming, bat furaijami thh 1 1 11 , The estimate upon which the Court of Quarter ffleikle seceded to the motion for building stew muds was IPA and there Is now entry certainty of the semorary verbs completed at an amount much below that. It ts that the on will bodged is a few days, and the will proceed at mum so that the 'outdates may be before the else of the present year. The courts and 110 ready for occupation about the time of the Lent MAW 111 • I THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVRAING, NOVEMBE