The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

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By adopting this course his Faithful Majesty Dom Perm° V. and his Cabinet have entitled themselves to the respectful sympathy of all civilised powers, and of all rational persona both in France and out of Franor. Far otherwise it will he with the EMPEROR and his Ministers. On them the censure of Europe will deservedly fall. The confidence of their Allies in the solemn assurance that the pre sent state of things in France is an Empire of Peace will be shaken, for without justice there can be nothing in the world worthy the name of peace. The value of the principle of Arbitration inserted in and consecrated by the Treaty of Paris will be diminished. The reputation of LOUIS NAPOLEON for temper ance and moderation in his policy and treatment of other States will be seriously affected. And by • considerable party in England the violence teem which Portugal has been compelled to shrink from a conflict with France will be regarded es an attempt to show the worthlessness of any dependence on an English alliance. A great and deplorable mistake has beam committed, the misehievous effects of which we masa hope easily cer stem to get rid of. Thee were two distiast mitten in this mu which It is all-important to keep steadily in view. One is the conduct of Portugal and its colonial authorities and tribunal in seizing and condemning the French vessel on the ground of being engaged in the Slave Trade. On this we continue to think that we are en. now imperfectly informed; and although all the facts which have transpired lead to the conclu sion that the ship had committed an infraction of Portugusee law in the Mozambique possessions of Portugal, it is neverthelese still just possible that Prance may, in respect of the seizure and condemna tion, have some just grounds of complaint. The strong measures of the French Government certainly suggest that there is more in the French case than has yet been allowed to transpire. Connected with this side of the question there are two points that will occur to those who have paid attention to these subjects. The first is that the French Government has for some time past been car rying on a very extensive "emigration" of negrose from the African shores of the Mozambique Channel to the Isle of Bourbon. Several thousand blacks, as many, it is said, se 10,000, have been deported from the east comet of Africa to th►t French colony. It may be, although it is extremely improbable, that all these Africans have been obtained by the French agents from parts of the coast over which the Portuguese neither possess nor claim any authority. But shoald it tarn out that the Portuguese either permitted or connived at this deportation of its sub jects by the French to Bourbon, and then suddenly without notice reversed their policy, seized • French ship and condemned it, then, it must be admitted, the French Government will not have been irritated without some reason. The other point is, that of all bad tribunals in the world we believe there are none worse than the Portuguese Courts of Law in the African possessions of that monarchy. We have a right to say so; for we have had long and melancholy experience of the corruption, the vileness, and the perversion of all moral sense, which characterised the Portuguese functionaries in the Courts of Mixed Commission established by England and Portugal to suppress the Slays Trade. No doubt Portugal has, since Brazil deprived her of the means of carrying on that traffic, turned over a new leaf, and has sent out higher and better officers to her African settlenitnts. But there is always • tendency in such cases to rush from one extreme into the other ; and we must know a great deal more of the facts and evidence before we can endorse the opinion that the condemnation of the Charles et George. was one that gave no cause for complaint. Caution upon this point is all the more necessary as it was only in this year ISM that Mr. PEMBERTON LEIGH, acting in the name of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, had, in the case of the British ship New port, to correct as scandalous a perversion of law sad justice by the British Vice-Admiralty Court of Si. Helena as the entire annals of jurisprudence preeest. We look with horror and detestation on the French scheme of free African Emigration (the true character of which was first exposed in this journal), bat obviously it is not enough to justify the seizure and condemnation of French ships to assert, or even to prove, that they were engaged in it. A great sad aoble and is not to be accomplished by wrongful, or doubtful, or indirect means ; and nee country is so deeply interested in the protection of Maritime Commerce aa England, some of whose ships were actually engaged by the Colonial authorities of Bourbon in transporting Africans from the Mozam bigots Channel. Bat all these considerations are beyond and beside th e other part of this case, which is the treatment of Portugal by France. There by no earthly possibility can the French Government be otherwise than wholly Inver , The judgment of the Colonial Tribunal was in course of revisal by the highest appellate ju risdiction of that kingdom ; the owners and master of the condemned ship had every opportunity of ex- 1111111111 M THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1858. posing the wrong done them by the Mocambique Court, if wrong had been done. In their appeal they would have had the active support and setistanoe of the Eitentoa's Government; and had any injustice been confirmed, then the French Government could have made a national question of the dispute. Moreover, it had just obtained, in the case of the French Sisters of Charity, complete proof that where wrong the Portuguese Government was not backward in acknowledging the fact and in giving satisfaction and redress. Instead of that, the Etc ?mos has preferred a resort to violence and insult, has interrupted the coarse of justice in Portugal, and has humiliated the Government of an independent State simply because it had no force sufficient to resist. And this course France has pursued in spite of and notwithstanding two considerations. First, that in • case of dispute not very dissimilar between Portugal and the United States relative to a ship called the General Armstrong, the differences on that occasion, which at one time threat ened • rupture, were at last mutually re ferred to the arbitrament and decision of no other power but France herself under its present sove reign. Secondly, that this is exactly such • case as comes under the principle of reference adopted by the great Powers of Europe in the Conferences of Paris; and it lithe utter disregard of that principle on the first occasion to which it was applicable that is calculated to give so deep an offence to Europe. In its place we have an overweening arrogance and • pernicious violence brought to the solution of a political difficulty which go far to persuade us that, be the Empire what it may, it is not the rule of Pew based on Justice. Cbt Coun. WINDSOR., Oar. 26. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, Princess Alioe, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, walked on the &at Tenses yesterday afternoon, attended by the ladies and gentlessea la wait*. Sir John Paldeglos accompanied the royal party. The Queen, with Princess Alice, rode out on horseback this morning. In attondrace were the Cotentin of Caledon, the Earl of Virulent, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Prince Consort, atcompaied by Prince Alfred, went out shooting. The Prince of Lebanon joined his Royal Highness. The Prince of Wake returned to the White Lodge in the foresooo, attended by Mr. Gibbs and Major Lindsay. Prince George of Saxony visited her Majesty, and returned to London in the afternoon. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington hat taken his Sepertnre. Mr. Cartier, Mr. Galt, and Mr. Rose had an interview with Sir Edward Salyer Lytton yesterday, in the Colonial atEcs. Colonel Moody had also an interview yesterday with the right boa. baronet. n — . 11111$6N from the Lord High Commissioner of the balsa lolanda and from the Governor of Heligoland were reopived yesterday at the Colonial-odloe. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--(TIII8 DAY.)—This nzoraing the marriage of Lady Katherine Elizabeth Handing fourth daughter of the Marquis of Absroorn, Groom of the Stole to His Royal Highness the Prince Coneort, sad Wil liam Henry, Viscount Valietort, eldest son of the Earl of Mount Edgcombs, was soleinniaed at Bt. Jaroes'a-church, Piccadilly. The I)ake and Duchess of Manchester arrived in tows yesterday from viaiting the Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley. Their grams will leave to-day for their soak Kimbolton Cut* Huntingdon. Emily Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies Somenet ere shortly expected in town from a tour in Boat load. The Countess (Dowager) of Lichfield and Lady fierandotema Anson have arrived at Lord Elcho's residence, in fit. lames's-place, from the Contineat. Visoount and Vi4counteas Palmerston left town riftirdsy for Broadlands. Lady Mary Wood and Miss Wood bare been _1 daring the past weak at Hold= Roll, on a visit to the Lit sod Cosmoses Ore,. The Right Ron. 8w Charlie Wood ward= it Hickletres Hell, Yorkahint, where greet shoemtkes sad Improvements are baler added forward. Mr. Wool, fla Charlie Wood's eldest son, he. jar altered Christ Man* Oxford. By 8114111161 . 1 Hall, M.P., arrived at Turin on the 21S has Kilts, on Ids way 03 Ragland. A lam party of the officers surviving the cele brated Light Cavalry charge at Be'Alava dined together at this Leaflet Tavern last avesing. The Earl of Laos; K.C.8., ceeepled the chair. It appears that the death of Sir Edward Butler as Ilaredllen Wok piece ander very painful citeametaacee. flir lidwrd, who bad arrived with Lady Butler by the wail train trod Paris, expired as he was being carried into hie epelnuale at the Heed d'Orient. He appears to have been la the led dap et a palsoswry disease. A Dublin morning journal announces briefly the approaching union of the Earl of Rglintoun with the Hon. Lady Adele Coped, daughter of the Earl of Essex. Professor Nichol is to give a lecture, in the City Gallery, Glasgow, on Friday evening, 6th November, on the mast med. Several members of the two Chambers dined with the Prince Regent of Pnuata on Saturday. M. H. Wienawaky, the celebrated violinist an nounced la M. Jathen's programme, has arrived at Brussels from Dresden, sad Is shoat kering for London, where areal engegemente await him. From a letter received on Saturday from Alex ander Diana, It appears that that Indefatigable writer haa renovated hoot his lab illness, and has left St. Potarabarg on a tour Into Maria. A letter from Venice in the Opirsione of Turin slates that the 'naivetes/I of the death of Meath was cele brated at Venice by a religiose teroweey, is the thumb of Bea Michels di Maputo. sad that the polies did sot interim A letter from Dresden, in the Zeit, says, " Mr. F. B. Forbes, British minister at our court. is so ill that his life is despaired of. It was sot long sines that the twenty-fifth easivereery of his reason is our city wee oslebratad. By his wanness sots of bensvoienos .sd by his great aoketlfie kaowiedge, Kr. Forbes has gained the worts and respect of everybody." M. Remain, first drogman of the French Con eelate.Gatersa et Teats, her been appointed Free& Caned at Jeddah. Y. Boeotian, who understands all the different Amble dialects, le the firth consul eppointed to that poet slate the lastltetion at the conatdate in 1844. The appearance of the comet created an immense sennetha la Egypt , fur several dye all bushier and leboar elm et • eleedetill, the inhabitants believing that It fore boded erme pest calamity. A latter from Toronto, of the I I th, saye—" Hie armilessey 81r N. Head, accomgenled by Lard Sedebedt, left the seat of government het week en a sheatlng escar oles, sad it la his intention to temp eat la the hose, end get a little experience of the wild sports of Canada. Lady Used sad Lady Radstock are nejoaraleg at Niagara. The town Is senessively dell, sad the weather equally so. The Sweet, however, looks most beantifol, glorying is every pos sible UM that smarm can petal upon the het chopping leaves. The comet Dm bees maguiflonst doting the poet soneequence of the great and progressive de terioration of ilk worms in Europe, two Venetians Maw seled la the IA trade—Coants Frisch! sad Ca..stallmd—liave determined to setiortalre a journey to the Caspian Bse, Persia, India, end Chits, la order to study the 'plan of the maaagentest of the eilk worm in those aboriginal easatries, and to bring horns a quantity of spawn from the beet plante none, in order, if poamble, to improve the breed at home. The °evertor-General of Lombardy has imbed the Freeelt government to patronise this spirited pilgrimage, and the Minister of Commerce hu strongly recommended it to the consideration of ibn silk growiag districts of France. MM. Freschi and Castelltni hope to return from their Barney by the end of next year. LATEST INTtLLIGENCE. INDIA. MONDAY, Oct. 25, 1868, 4.69 p.m. The following message has been received at the East India-house : TO JAPES C. Kavnu, ESQ., INDIA-HM:IBN, LONDON. From H. L. ANDERSON, Esq., - Secretary to Government. Dated Bombay, Sept. 27, 1868. OUDE. A successful attack on a body of rebels, numbering about 3,000, posted on an island of the Gogra, took place on the 19th instant. Two oompanies of Europeans, the Kupperthela Contingent, and some of Hodson's Horse, attacked and drove them out of their entrenched position on the island, killing, it is reported, 1,000. The Artillery fire did great exe cution among the fugitives, and also sunk two boats laden with the enemy. _ _ Two of the rebel leaders are reported to be among the slain. The British loss not severe. CENTRAL INDIA. The Owalior rebels nre still at Sarongs, but it is thought that they will make an attempt to cross the Nerbudda, betwef u &ego, and Bile. The follow ing are the present positions of three columns of British troops serving in Central India:—Major- General Michel, commanding Malwa field force, at Bilsa; Brigadier Parke, with Neemuch field force, at Sarungpoor ; and Brigadier Smith, moving with his force from Goona towards Serooge. The first cavalry reinforcement for Central India, consisting of Guzerat and Gaekwar Horse, from Dohad, under the command of Captain Buckle, we expected at Oojein yesterday. The Bombay Presidency is quiet. H. 1.. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bombay Castle, Sept. 27, 1858. V. MONTANARO. Malta, Oot. 25, 1858. THZ CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. (IT SCINJOUII AND 111TDI1 TILNGRAPN.) Cram( OUR owx MALTA, TIIIIIID/LT. Advioea have arrived from Hong-Kong to Sept. 11; and Calcutta, Sept. 22. An earthquake has been felt at Akyab. The Calcutta produce market is active; imports dull; money abundant ; freights lower. Exchange, 28.01 d. to 2c Old. At Madras there is no improvement in imports; In exports little is doing. The money market Is easy. Freights low ; tonnage abundant. In ex change no alteration. Hong Kong.—Trade dull. Exchange, 4a. 4d. to 4e. sd. Shanghai, Sept. 2.—lmporta and exports little doing. Silk firm. Exchange, lis. I Id. to Is. Old. Canton, Sept. 7.—Nothing doing in imports or exports. Macao, Sept. 9.—Fair business done in tea. Freights tending downwards. Poo-Chow, August 31.—Increased activity in the tea market. Singapore, Sept. 28.—Imports active. Produce in good demand. Exchange, bank bills, six months, 46. 41d. EXPRESS Fltol PARIS. (IRON 00/ OWN col PARIS, 11110NDAT Evai:ime. You will have seen that the Moniteur indirectly confirms my correction of and addition to the despatch from Portugal, published by the Parris of last eveciog. The Moniteur, by merely stating that the Portuguese government " has decided on giving up the Charles Georges, and setting Captain Rouxel at liberty," shows that " all" is not finished, and that the assertion that Portugal " paid the in demnity demanded, without recourse to arbitration," was not authentic. Moreover, the curt and un courteous manner in which the affair is noticed contrasts strangely with the jubilations of the Constautionna and Patric at the rammed frank and handsome manner in which the King of Por tugal had " disavowed his agents," and acknowledged th►t France was in the right. I re peat, and the fact will be universally known in a few hours, that the Portuguese government pro tested, and expressly said, on giving up the Charles Georges, that it yielded not to right but to force. The Moniteur, I must observe, has small considera tion for those of its readers, and they are many, who never see any other paper. They know nothing whatever about the Charlie Georges, or the appear ance of French and English ships before Lisbon. While all the other papers in Europe were talking about these things, the Moniteur was perfectly silent. One understands that an official journal should be less loquacious than others, but it ought at any rate to take the pains to make its files intel ligible. A Portuguese journal, the Nacional, of Porto, publishes a letter, dated Lisbon, Oct. 16, which says: Our goverament has oalled upon England, vebtoh has bream* us into our present state of embarrsamment with the Premix government, to help no out of it. It appears to be beyond doabt that the answer of the Boglish government wee that it could take no part In the question helm= Por tugal and Frame. Between the lion end the drop, Lug land, attentive to her own Interests above evarking, not withstandbag all her philanthropy, will never Whale kw a swami to side with the strongest party. The Pays, protesting against the "insinuations" of the Portuguese journal disparaging the " loyalty" of the English government, asserts that England did in fact refuse to interfere from the first, and that her conduct him been most " Some days ago the Univers published a catalogue raisenni of the Lisbon newspapers, and made out that, with the exception of two or three nitro montane organs of its own kidney, they were all sondacted by a set of low radicals and socialists. Thirty-six editors of Portuguese journals have now sent a protest to the French papers against this calumny. A great fuss has been made in Paris about alleged insults to Faso& Sisters of Charity in Lisbon, for which it has been sought to hold the Portuguese government and nation responsible. The Jesuitic journals have even frequently insinuated that the Preach naval demon stration in the Tagus was as much provoked by the affair of the Sisters of Charity as by that of the Charles Georges. It appears from the memorial which embodies the almost unanimous testisioay of the Portuguese pries, that there is no other foundation for the grievance than a manifestation of curiosity and surprise not always unmixed with derision, among a fraction of the lowest and most ignorant classes at the appearance in the streets of Lisbon of women in a costume which appeared very strange in their eysi. But these vulgar manifestations Irltr• with one voice condemned by the journals, even by those which, as a matter of policy, are more strongly op posed to the novelty of the introduction into Por total of establishment• of Sisters of Charity for the purpose of educating children. The Portuguese press, while claiming the right of a nation to free discussion on • subject affecting its institutions, customs, and prosperity, protests in the most solemn manner against unfounded statements, which can only have been suggested to its brethren of France, Spain, England, and Belgium by false and doubtless malevolent assertions. The departure of the Court for Compiegne, which has been postponed for a few days, stands fixed at present for Nov. 3. To-day the Emperor has been shooting at Rambouillet, where there is a great deal of game that wants killing. Count Walewski, Lord Cowley, and Baron James Rothschild, were of the Party The Bourse has been doll. The Rent. fell sc. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 72fr. 93c. and 73fr. Mobilier fell 15fr. The railways were about 2tr. 60c. lower. The note in the Moniteur, from its coldness towards Portugal, had a prejudicial effect rather than otherwise. It is stated that orders have been received at Brest for the embarkation of five companies of Marines for China. It is now, I believe, quite certain that the Emperor has resolved to build a new opera house. A year ago, when the pretty Hotel d'Osmond, oppo site the Rue de la Paix, was pulled down, a report that the new opera was to be built on the site was indig nantly denied by authority. Nevertheless, there was much foundation for the report, and the scheme for establishing the new opera there is even yet on the tapir. A rival project is, however, under con sideration for building an opera house on the south side of the Place de la Concorde, which would harmonise in point of architecture with the Ministry of Marine on the opposite aide. I venture to offer the opinion that such a building would spoil the fine view of the river and the quays from the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysees, and would be otherwise an eyesore, besides being an en croachment on a principal public promenade. Wherever the new house may ultimately be, it will, I believe, be made to hold a much larger audience than the present one. The house in the Rae Lepelletier will scarcely hold more than 7,000 fr., and it is pro poeed, with a slight rise in prices, to bring the nightly receipts up to 15,000 fr. The architect has an ingenious plan for warming the lobbies, so as to prevent ladies from taking cold while waiting for their carriages; and it is intended to insist upon evening dress for gentlemen, ea is done, or at least supposed here to be done, in London. (MON 0171 OWN BERLIN, Oar. 23. All Germany has its eyes wistfully turned towards Berlin, and watching with intense interest the pro gress of events. People are waiting to see if the constitutions granted to so many other German States, but hitherto only existing on paper, cannot also be brought forth from the musty archives in which they have been doomed to lie so ignominiously forgotten, whilst even to mention them has been an offence not far short of high treason. Ever since the triumph of reaction in Prussia the Liberals have been everywhere obliged to hide their heads, for, being without any acknowledged leader or any organisation, they saw that for the moment their cause was hopeless, and that the only course left for them to pursue was to remain quiet and bide their time. And indeed where could they look for countenance and protection P If they turned to Austria, they found that that power had quite enough on its hands in putting its own affairs in order. Austria, moreover, regards political and ecclesiastical absolutism as thefouudition stone of her own existence. All the other German States— Hanover, Bavaria, Hesse—had thrown themselves into the arms of the reactionary party, to the almost total annihilation of the moderate Liberals and deri sion of constitutional principles. Two minor States alone, whose sovereigns, though usually called " petty," deserve the greatest praise and gratitude of all tree patriots—the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, in spite of all intrigues, remained firm to the cause of freedom, and, though too small and of too little weight in t he councils of the Bundestag to have any great influsnoe on the general policy of Germany, they have held their own with Regular tenacity, and formed the nucleus around which all the friends of liberty rally. Now that the dawn of a better day has broken over Prussia, the Liberals of other parts of Germany are not without hope that the expected sunshine of constitutional liberty will penetrate to her most dis tant confines, and illuminate the inhabitants of the lesser States. Prussia is now on the point of being put on her trial. In the elections which are about to take place it will be seen if Prussia is worthy of taking her seat as a constitutional European power. If her people are true to themselves, there can be no doubt of the result. The Regent le determined to act with perfect fairness and impartiality, for at his immediate instigation the provisional Minister of ' the Interior, Hey von Flottwill, has addressed a circular to all the civil authorities in the kingdom, requiring them to desist from influencing the voters in any way, and merely to see that the elections are conducted with due order and with no infraction of the public tranquillity. In all the sessions of the legislative bodies hitherto held alterations have been made in the original con-0 stitntion under the pretext of improvements and revisions, which have seriously endangered its very existence. To these evil tampering§ it ought to be no longer exposed, but rather guarded with the most rigid jealousy. That this, however, -cannot be secured with the present defective composition of the Chambers is quite clear. If anything were wanting to demonstrate the necessity of fresh elec tions, it would be found in the division of yesterday in the House of Representatives, where fie motion of the feudal Count Arnim-Baitsenburg, backed by the whole of the %rag Zestung party, was only thrown out by a majority of four, which is by far too small a majority to reckon on under any other cir cumstances than with such a feeling as prevails on the absorbing subject now before the house. The Prussian House of Commons has at no period of its brief existent* mustered so numerously as on this interesting occasion. According to its present formation it should consist of 352 members, of whom, however, 12 have died or resigned their seats since the last elections, thus making the actual number 340, and of these no less than 333 are now assembled here. An after-dinner speech made by the Minister of War, General ConntWaldersee, in which, at a military banquet given in his own house, when proposing the health of the King and Queen, he seriously ascribed to the latter the investiture of the Prince of Prussia with the regal authority, has crested oonsiderable sensation, not unmixed with surprise, amongst those who are better informed as to the part her Majesty really performed in the late memorable political drama. " The Queen," said his Excellency, "is not only the affectionate and tender nurse of her illus trious patient, but setting aside the scruples enter tained by his medical advisers, and having her attention only turned towards the prosperity and well-being of the state, she induced the King to override all the difficulties of the situation of affairs and delegate the royal authority to the Prince of Prussia as Regent of the kingdom!" THE REGENCY IN PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MONDAY. The united Legislative bodies have voted unani mously, and without discussion, a resolution affirming the necessity of the Regency. The sitting has been brought to a close amidst hearty cheers for the King and the Priam Regent. We ( Times) have received the following telegram from Berlin : " BERLIN, TIIIIIDAY. 10.37 " At a separate sitting of both Chambers this day, a message was received from the Prince Regent, informing them that his royal highness will take the oath prescribed in Art. 58 of the Constitution before the members of both houses, and requesting them to assemble this day at one o'clock, at the Royal Palace, for that purpose ; immediately after which the Dist will close." SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Ocr. 23. The conflict between Geneva and the central au thority is arranged in a friendly manner. The Genevese authorities, after consulting the Grand Council and obtaining its assent, has come to the following agreement:—Five of the suspected indi viduals are to leave Switzerland, but their departure is in a sense voluntary, for they have consented to the arrangemeat. They will receive a subsidy from the federal funds to pay their travelling expenses. Five other refugees having promised to be very cir cumspect in their conduct, will be allowed to remain in Geneva. The three remaining suspected persons having concealed themselves, will be sought for by the police of all the cantons, and expelled when found. Thus is terminated, without resort to force by the central authority, a conflict which has coos 'gonad considerable excitement during the last fortnight, not only in Switzerland but in foreign countries. PRUSSIA. THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. The opening of the Overland Mail route to' California through the United States, which has been several times mentioned in the &prase, is a matter of the greatest interest and Importance to Europe, inasmuch as it will open up a vast country to European emigration, will be the precursor of a railway and land telegraphic communion- 1 Mon from New York to San Francisco, end will greatly faci litate English intercourse with British Columbia. The Californian Overland Mall route is 2,600 miles in length, more than four times longer than the whole length of Great Britain, from north to south, and is the longest land mail road in the world. The cost of it to the United States government will be 126,0001. per manual. The contract is to last ads years, Messrs. Batterefleld, Dinsmore, Fargo, Gardner, Kenyon, Spencer, and Holland are the mail contractors. They are to have the preemption of 320 saes of land every ten miles along the road for the formation of stations. The mail I. to be carried in four horse coaches or spring wagons. The eastern termini are St. Louis and Memphis on the Miasissippf, the converging point Is to be Fort Smith in Arkansas, and the western terminus San Francisco. A mall from each of the termini le to start twice every week, and to reach its destination in twenty-five days. The mall contract was signed September 16, 1857, and on that day twelve month the malls started. During the intervening twelve month between the signing the contract and des patching the mail, the whole route was eddied and arrangements made for changing horses and victualling passengers. go complete are the arrangements that, it is said, a daily overland communication oonld, in the coarse of twelve months, be established between New York and San Francisco. Up to the present time news has reached Eng land of the starting of the westward mall, and of its having got nearly 700 miles on its journey, within the contract time, without any mishap. Before the contract was entered into some diecunion took place between the Northern and Southern Sato., as to the direction of the mail route. The former were in favour of its going northwards to %a Francisco and to fall In with their network of railway.; and the southeraers wished it to go southwards, to carry out the purposes of their trade, and enable them, in cue of a dissolution of the Union, to secure California. Four distinct routes were projected for selection —two northern and two southern. One of the northern routes was called the 42nd parallel one: it commenced at St. Louis, in Missouri, and paned through Central Nebraska, the Mormon city at the Salt Lake, and Oregon. The other northern route woe that of the 38th parallel it passed through Springfield in Missouri, the western territory, Northern Texas, and New Mexico. The two southern routes were first the 32nd parallel which commenced at St. Louis, and Foamed through the Ancona country, the Rio Grande, and the Rocky moun tains at El Paso ; and second, the 31st parallel which com menced at St. Antonio, in Texas, and pissed also through the Rio Grande sod El Paso. I. order to tusdentand the position of the principal starting points of the ?vine routes, it may be mentioned that St. Louis end San Francisco are situated shout the 38th parallel, Springfield about the 37th, Memphis about the 35th, New York about the 40th. Fort Smith about the 35th, and St. Antonio about the 29th. The present contracton wish to run the mail on the 3.5 th parallel route, Congress and the public, however, could not agree as to this, end the result was that it was left to the President, his Cabinet, and the Postmaster- General to determine the matter. They selected St. Louis and Memphis as the starting points, Fort Smith as the converging point, and the route of the 32nd parallel. The routs selected is also called the bifurcated route, because it starts from two eastern points, and it. bifurcated origin was • compromise to please both north and south. The 32nd parallel was selected professedly for the following reason, viz., the new territory of Anuses, through which it pares, Is inadequately protected. It has not the mail facilities of Kansas and Nebraska, It is exempted from the rigours of the northern routes, and the terrible heats of the tropics. Water and timber are plentiful along the line, the encomit level of the El Paso is low, and the country Is generally well fitted for cultivation. The con- verging point is about 400 miles from the two western tenant. St. Louis is about 1,000 miles from New York, to which there is a communication by rail. Tha mall coaches and wagons will traverse 276,756 miles le the course of a year, and the mileage Is shout Ss. Id. The rolling stook consists at preemie of shoat 1,600 horse* and moles. and 100 coaches and spring wagons. The ride aloof the prairies Is described by the peessogers es most exhilarating. A few evenings ago, at the theatre at Varese, a ilttle Mena in Lombardy, near the lake of that name, an opera wee produced, a amid In which ended with the words, "Viva rlialla!" 'Theo - verde electrified the audience, who reee to their feet cad cried with the greatest tathuvieam, Viva mast " LAMAR/TEX.—A French journal, Gataois, pub lishes a letter from Lumens* to M. Philo:doe Boyer, dated from Saint-Point (hie country met neer Macon), in which the worldly nnfortnuate poet sad reared statesman say. : hem bit fora moms* ; I ham come to take (in ell probability) g last adieu rimy satin home, end to remove the furniture before the piece Is put up to section. If gelatin three months France doss not reepoad b oar appeal, I shall have bee soil that I may not die upon it. Ns gwbw arc I" ESCAPE OF A POLITICAL PRISONER.—The fol lowing curious moare from the Hopital St. Louis of a poll ' ties) prisoner and alleged Mastic is recounted by the Ind,- ' perkinnes Beiff Fargin-Payolle, an ex-ingather of the National Assembly, who took part In the affair at the Conservatoire dee Arts-et-Illselies with Lela Boll* wee condemned for that offence to t for alla After undergoing his punishment for th you% be wee Weed with Mora., and it was decided to rsesetee Ma to • .eissn de 'anti. Three years ago he was semordtegly taken to the Ropital St. Louis, who be Bedded l the Pavilion Cis brfaga which Is resetwed ter pilaw who have the meats of park( fur better easemei Two days ego, op one of She teandeffile made( the eperaelat, the prism" had die ' =sd dad ait aloft ha beta reasevad. The evening abets dye detach, ghee is bed dinner, M. Payolle went into the garden appropriated to the use of convalesoent patients; he spoke te several u usual, end walked up end down en be was in the habit of doing. At half-peat seven he returned to his mom, bat, before doing so, be, oestrary to ordinary habits, shook several of the patients heartily by the hand, and from that time no one hag men him. His bed was found just in the state it would have been if it had been slept In. Aa to the means by which he km escaped end removed his offsets, ell remains unknown." _ _ _ LANDSLIP IN NORIVAT.CIIRIOTIANIA, OCT. 20. A telegram has been received here announcing that a num ber of homes built on the heights at Toneberg auddenlyAlid down the cliff, and wets enolphed in the Fiord at the Mee on Saturday last. As the accident took place about three o'clock le the afternoon, fortunately no human litres are lost. The value of the property engulphed is estimated at 12,000 opecies dollars. AP the oivio authorities required technical aodatsnce, the goverunivnt have Pent over Lieut. Orontved, of the Engineer., to do what he can for them. GREAT RILPOI3I MISITIIVO AT NIWCASTLB- UPON-TINE. (NT 11.30111.10 TILEOZAPN.) Maim coVi. OWN oomerowDzirr.) NEWCAt3TLE:OTON-TYNE, TUESDAY, Lost night one of the greatest political meetings that has hem held in this town mince the era of the Reform Bill, took place in the Lecture Room, Nelson-street. Long before the hour of meeting, the room was crowded to suffocation, and numbers were obliged to leave, being unable to gale admission. The leading topics enforced by the ra tions speakers werethom which form the creed of the Northern Reform Union, viz., !manhood suffrage and vote by btilet. The enthusiasm with which every allusion to both topics was revived afforded =mistakeable evidence that in there districts, at least, there is no apathy with respect to the great question of reform in Parliament. TBB HAMBURG AMERICAN STEAM PACKETS. (PROM A CORRERPONDINT.) HAMBURG, Ocr. 2*. Putting out of the question the lamentable loss of life connected with the loss of the Austria, the Hamburg American Steam Company have done a good business, having just purchased the two splendid steamers Petropoli s and Teutonia from the late Brazil Steam Company, for a smaller sum together than the Austria met and wee insured for. The Petropolis fetched 270,000 marks beim, and the Teutonia 221,000, whilst the Austria was injured for half a million marks beam. The Petropalia has changed her name, and take. her place in the line under the new appellative et the Bavaria, and the chief officer of the Hammonis is ap pointed to her command. The Teutonia will not be put on the station till the spring, having broken her screw on the last voyage from the Brazils, and the new one ordered at (hassock not having arrived. A subscription is being organised here to present the French and Norwegian captains with an appropriate ansestir, in testimony of ther humane and praiseworthy con duct in saving the lives of so many of the passengers and mew of the ill-fated Austria. The Excise Hop Duty Repeal Association have caned a meeting of the planters and others, to be held at Tunbridge Wane, on November S. The Sums Advertirer stye, " that the necessity of making an early /meal to the Chancellor of the Exchequer is painfully apparent. The low prices realised for any but hope of the choicest growths, and from the most favoured districts, and the accumulated preemie of the heavy duties of the last few years, are rapidly bringing in a crisis on the affairs of a large section of the planters. The duties of a year and a half hare to be paid in the next few months, and the utter inability of a numerous body of growers to raise the sum due to the excise is a matter of universal 'Abortion." We (Glasgow Daily Mail) understand that an action of reduction, repetition, and damages has been raised and executed by one of the shareholders, • lady resident in the west country, against the directors of the Western Bank, so as to test the question of their ultimate liability. We believe that the shares held by this lady were purchased shortly before the closing of the bank, and it is anticipated that this will forma strong ground of action. LUNATIC ASYLUM FOE THE CITY OF LONDON.—. The Committee of telecom of the Pesos for the City of Lon don have been for some time Bitting for the purpose of taking steps for erecting and maintaining a lunatic asylum for the pauper lunatics ; and have, under the 15th and 18th Vic., cap. 81, adopted the following scale as a basis for a county rate for defraying the neceseary expenses. In making this rate they have divided the City into four parts : the first contains the City of London Union, comprising 98 parishes, and is seamed at 968,3911. ; the second, the Eget London Union. comprising four parishes, is armed at 160,3051.; the third, the Weer Loudon Union, with seven parisbee, is put down at 164,3281. ; and the fourth contains the extra parochial places, or the five inns of court, and is mewed at 38,0981., making a total of 1,299,1221. The bade is calm heed on the amount to which each parish is assessed to the consolidated rate. In accordance with the resolu tion, formal notice has been sent to the overseers of the poor of each of the parishes intareeted of this resolution, informing them that any objections to the proposed basis or sanded must be forwarded to the committee on or before Wednesday, the let day of December, after which no objections can be received. The site Axed on for erecting the asylum is in the parish of Stone, near Dartford, where the committee have entered into an engagement with Mr. Charles White, a landed proprietor of that place, for the purchase of 32 acres of freehold land for the sum of 3,2001. Mr. Bunning, the City architect, is now engaged lu making plans and drawings for the building, which will be capable of accommodating about 300 pauper lunatics!. As soon as the plans are com bleted an estimate of the expense will be made and the uilding will be commenced. THE FOLTHCOIIIIIO MICHAILMAB TERM.—Yea. terday the arrears of the common law mewls for the ensuieg term, oommociag on Tuesday, were exhibited, and pre seated a remarkable appearance, especially In the Cana of Queen's Bench, where there is not a single case for meat, and where the entire arrears only number rules, comisting of 6 new trial rules, 9 rules on the special , and 2 enlarged rules. As there is only see en nil. for the first day the court will proceed with the new trial paper. In the Common Pleas in the remand paper there are 8 as enlarged rules, 6 rules for new trials, 7 mattes for the judgment of the court, and 12 demurrers, making a total of 32. In the Court of Exchequer the rules only amount to 17-4 errors and appeals from the court, 7 is the special paper, of which 3 are for judgment sad 4 for argument ; in the new trial paper there are 2 for judgment and 4 for argument. The whole "arrears" of the three courts only number 65, about one-third of the new trial roles formerly in the Court of Queen's Bench. The judges and other learned dignitaries of the law will breakfast with the Lord Chancellor, at his house in Eaton-guars, on Tusk next, being the Ant day of term. DEATH OF SIR JOHN POTTER, M.P.—Sir John Potter, one of the representatives of the City of lhaebratst, died yesterday morning, at his reddens, Beech If Pm dleton, near Mancheeter. He has had but indifferent heath for the pest two years, but was able to attend to business st Intervals op to yesterday fortnight, when he wee Medal with more meow abase, which confined him to the boar up to the time at his death. The hon. gentleman was In II 44th year. His name will long he gratefully remembered the neighbourhood for his liberality and personal exertions Is establishing the free library, and for his many privity charities. ... a— THE CASK OP TEE REV. ALFRED POOLE.—WI are Informed that legal proceedings have been rommg e o t edA the Rev. Alfred Poole against the Hon. and Rev. Baring, In 001111041111001 of the alleged defamatory swami made by the latter gentleman at the meeting in St. Jame . ' Hall, on the 11th June. Mr. Bova', Q.C.. and Mr. Coleridge, will be mimed for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Edwin Jew% Q.C., Y retained for the defendant An application will sin be mad* to the Court of Queen'. Bench, oa behalf of Mr. Pock, for a weadamer, to compel the archbishop to receive hie spinet. It will be woolketed that a similar procedure wee accorded in the caw of Archdeacon Denison. FIRST JEWISH MAYOR IN THE PROYINCES.--' The Quarter Sessions for the ancient borough of Quest borough, went held on Tuesdey last, before the Recorder. Mr. Deedse, this being flu time sessions held under the mayoralty of L. S. ldagnue, Esq., a gentleman of the Jewish faith, recently elected to the chief magietsriel chair of this town. At the conclusion of the sesabeas the Mayor gave a sumptuous dinner at the Ship Hotel, to tbe Recorder, members of the oorporation, a number of Mew andel gentlemen connected with the county, and a hr. Wrote of his private friends, his worship occupying lira chair. The usual loyal toasts having been given and rw spooded to, the Mayor gave that of tt the church," with it the name of the incumbent, the Rev. R. 13= In proposing this toast, the Mayor, in an able meek pointed out how persons of the Jewish penetwion moll consistently, not only respect the church, but had Wit aid In support of it, The Rev. Mr. Bingham respoaded ti the toast in a clever and happy speech of considerable imeillo dwelling upon the bane of a:elusiveness, and trudge th e their worthy mayor would prove hhosslf a twee " lamella * —Bough Eastern Oa:etre. OYSTER BROOD AT HERNE BAY.—A remarks* phenomenon of nature has for some time appeared ea 0044. It I. an unparalleled quantity of oyster brood, er tending along the shoes from Whitstable to the Ftwebea At the foot of the beach everywhere is to be soon this maws in its incipient state, resembling a small drop of tallow, Daring to douse, pieces al wood, broken bottler, and weit tobwoo-plpes, gradually teenesbag Ia rise to the angel. of • penny. The oyster Is of that delicious bind need ?lathy, wed will be cediseted or dredged for by our eselwiell population, to replenish the grounds of Whitstable, Pear sham rho., giving remunerative employment daring the Ai" months to numbers who /therein would have to WO precarious circumstances for subsist/mos.-BmA la's Onset". THE NEW RAILWAY STATION AT MAIOITL . " We have the plasm/eta state that the new statics 101 opened to the public yesterday. The whole of the vote he been designed and carried nut by Charles T. Liberec, architect to the South Easton Railway Company. 10 building is neat in appearance, with carriage drive is The booking-oftloe is 38 feet long, and 18 feet wide. ,10 parcel-office and station-master • room each aids ; thou!! also two large waiting. rooms with ladles' rooms. Thom is 2.°0 test long, 62 feet wills, severed with a light hos al glow roof, constructed by Mama Cochrane and Dudiey i lM builders of Weetminster-bridge. The platforms ere see 300 feet hoe, 15 feet wide, with side entrano4 for resell luggage. In addition to the above the company ere leitig down additional siding'. Kratish Orwas. I: TO I THE OUTWARD AUSTRALIAN MAlL.—Nor.es - given by the Post master-General yesterday that the use which leave' Southampton on the Ist ponimo, wt.l not au .wptihen."Cap• will Good f iL.p• the , and Aut t tr h: i t i. the c o oi n o l . y ia sit , ic, g om il imsam 7 and New Zealand.