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

TRUIIB-NEW KODEL.-CRAMER, 1/1•31. mil Ow. 1111, Lem anew in etrDAILY NEWS I LONDON KORNINO uez:Luswi Atna =rft ma d uk sr Mud mg aire_tjleZerla So es= Lb I " "P m. ° 2 " h 11 =Miaboe = Ma b la ••••••■•• le ohs Ow. " WtolißillN STU 111 ,41 1 Aln no rarw hi, ...I..t.g . =M et to Ile boas kr le St by 0 , 41 L TIIII 011L71 II MOST. r i ratirDll/ ALL 0 .2 I S INOIVII Lovarrnsit r • arra sim lib Mk* i i laill oi... I CIM:A .. Om raw 11•11 • li••••• =l= it MT imems la ihe Moan : or • le No slit 1001. ell Is ZlNNL2Mrb r j. m aoellZ =Tirrio== a• 1 PlirTrrOMMA Pali Cps OX.V*OIO. TO CORRESPONDIOITIL Advertieseesat• istaliel kir the The 'Es= l ; l.4 llll4 PeM mot be at the OM by Two o'Ck as Ilbs dag Ti;. gyms*. Till WWPO IA MBIII. MIER ROW% mod him, Men C. Or bIe.—VIIR U~ SBA 1110ADLIAIVIVIII. tens IIass.WICILIID *1.'47. asii.—Aal • UM IS Tall DA.M.-Oismasse it 7. LTCZOIL Twos Immo% Sa. flews. Itesowr. awl J ars W OV . r 1:17: siz 1.1 M rs. Tosies.—Aad TOO 111.1(ill FOB I/ *TIM& Nam •r. /. mg" Salt Omeln; illisirsims.—OcansasetA7. HIGH W AT= AT LONDON DRIDOZ. ft. DAr—partly; 111 k. u.. Allanims. 111. Us. 4fia mimosa. ex is LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 11. SPORTING INTELLIG&NCF. A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS," *attaining the malts of the day's Races, is pub lished every main daring the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. THE splendid capabilities of Milford Haven have long been recognised. NELSON expressed in words his admiration of it ; but more than a century before NELSON, Pine, by the use he made of it, had borne still more unequivocal testimony to its merits. Bat commerce will not be allured to any place merely become it affords safe riding for ships. Until our railway system was developed, Milford Haven, though an admirable harbour, was remote from any of those busy centres of industry and accumu lated property w hich at tra ct merchants. Hence Roamer that the Mersey, with all the difficulties and dangers which its flat, windswept shores and inflammable shoals promoted, became a thronged resort of traffic, while Milford Haven remained almost as unvisited as in the days of the AP GRIFFITHS and LLEWELLTHS. The deficiencies of the Mersey as a port were disre garded on account of its proximity to the great pro ducing counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Stafford shire, and Yorkshire. But now that railways have already brought Milford Haven, or are rapidly bring ing it, into close proximity with the Metropolis and with the manufacturing districts, sailors and ship owners are awakening to its capabilities of a harbour. This explains the demonstration at Pembroke Dock, which it was yesterday our pleasing task to chronicle. We do not expect—and still less do we wish— that Milford Haven should rise on the ruins of any of our established ports, or prevent the development of the trade of others. Southampton Water and the Mersey will keep their ground ; Gal way, or Valentia, or both, will become the great stations for the receipt and despatch of mails and passengers between England and North America, and the export and import harbours for the trade between Ireland and the New World. But Milford Haven will rise to an equality with the beat of these places. There is ample room for them all ; the fresh start in the development of our island resources which is being made under the auspices of steam locomotives and the Electric Telegraph, will render all these maritime stations no more than sufficient for the giant growth of English commerce. It is a great recommendation of Milford Haven that it opens on the breed Atlantic. It offers a refuge to seamen, to reach which they need not embay themselves in any narrow straits or channels. Its entry is boldly defined, and free from hidden perils ; while within there is ample room for whole navies of ships of the largest draught, with ample shelter from every wind that can blow. The Mersey and the Clyde, from their immediate proximity to regions of busy and productive industry, will con tinue to attract as many vessels as ever ; for merchants have a well-grounded aversion to frequent repetition of the act of breaking bulk, and seek therefore to ship their goods as near as possible to the place where they are produced. But so immense trade will be attracted to Milford Haven, now that carriage thither from the mann factoring districts has become safe, speedy, and moire mical, and that the mineral wealth of Booth Wales is being so extensively exploit!. Milford Haven will assume the rank, as a trading port, which Bristol once held. Ito commerce will bear the same ratio to the aggregate commerce of England in the nine teenth century that the commerce of Bristol did to the aggregate commerce of England in earlier ages. And there are certain local traffics which advantage of position will inevitably attract to Milford Haven. It will contest with Southampton Water the character of the natural place of deposit for the commodities which are shipped to or landed from en important portion of our Colonies. The shipping of the West India Colonies will naturally make for it ; it will attract the trade of the Caps Colony and Western Africa ; and all that important portion of the passenger and goods trate of our Southern Colonies which takes the Panama route—that is, the balk of the trade of New Zealand, Tasmania, New South Wales, and the district around Moreton Bay—will also resort to it. To oar growing commerce with the Brazils Milford Haven offer, an equally eligible emporium ; but oar anticipations of the future for this harbour are more disposed to rest on its possible and probable colonial connexions. England is essentially a colonising country. She, of all modern States, has alone succeeded in estab li shing free filial semasanities, whereas the others have only bees able tomato depandemies. Ragland laid the foemlatisaa of the Great Western Republic; and though the United States—as we say of goes and danghtere who have set up establishments of their own apart firma the paternal home—are nowforie-juseshotal, the great Canadian, West Indian, and Australian groups, and the infant empire of South Africa, still remain con nected with us by the closest family ties. We need only turn to the statistical tables of the Board of Trade to be convinced that our commerce with the United States and our Colonies is by far the most important part of our aggregate commerce. Being carried on with communities which have hived off the parent stock of Britain, and which retain British teaks and habits, oar productions suit them hitter than any other people. Possessing ample vacant lands, their num bers increase more rapidly than those of old man- ' tries. Every way they arc the most sure and profitable customers we can have. The mercantile relations between Colonies and Mother-Countries are unsuseeplible of destruction or even diminution ; allnlimm THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1858. from political enmities or alienation. Notwith standing the enmity engendered by the unfortunate _ _ . . . . cirenmelances under which the Called States broke loose from us, the growth of the commercial inter course between the two countries never knew pause or intermission. And Mauritius, which has been in. eorporated into the British Empire for half a cen tury, continues to this day to have sore intinute commercial relations with the Garonne than with the Thames. Add to theme considerations, that colo nisation calls thus more lucrative and more cer tain markets into existence, adds them to those which our merchants continue to frequent to as great an extent as they could have done though we had been destitute of Colonies. And, perhaps, the INTO augmentation of the national wealth which England derives from her Colonies is the least benefit she owes them. Our narrow island, but for the Colonies, would soon have become over-populated. The Colonies not only find subsistence and profitable employment for those who would have been doomed to idleness and poverty at home ; their demand for oar productions enables • more numerous population to reside in comfort within the island than could otherwise have done so. They have saved us to a great extent—if more adequately turned to account they might save us to • still greater extent—from the demoralising in fluence of a surplus and pauper population. It is an instinctive sense, rather than a definite conception of these benefits, that has made and kept England a colonising country. Her efforts in colonisa tion are, it is true, intermitting, but they are incessantly renewed after brief intervals of repose. From 1830 till within the last year or two the heart of England was keenly bent upon colonising enterprise. Within that period the program of the British North American Provinces, of the Cape Colony, of Tasmania and New South Wales, has received a new impetus, while Victoria, New Zealand, Southern and Western Australia, have been called into existence. The brief surcease of interest in colonial undertakings cannot last long. And it is not the least of many favourable omens for the future of Milford Haven that some enterprising men have associated themselves with a view to render it the recognised starting-point of emigrants for New Zealand, Eastern Australia, and the new colony of British Columbia. PRINCE ALFRED AT HAMBURG. (lIIT ILICTLIC AND INTBRNLTIO(AL TRLEONATII.) (PROW OUR. OWN HAMBURG, FIIDAT. The royal yacht Osborne arrived and anchored last evening at Cuxhaven ; she steamed this morning up to Oluckatadt, where Prince Alfred and suite landed. They then proceeded hither by the Altana Railway, and took up their abode in apartments at the European Hotel. This morning his royal high ness went on 'Change, and then visited the picture gallery. (PROM TR, COURT CIRCULAR.) The Mayor of Melbourne had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir R. Bohm Lytton yesterday. Lien tenant-Colonel Crawford had also an interview with the right hon. baronet at the Colonial-Aloe The Marpais of B&llebvy left town on Thursday night far Um ,eat s Hatfield, Herts. were received yesterday at the Colonial-offlos frem pa rrvernor of Malta, the Lord High Conunimioner He lonian Islands, and from the Governor, of Van couver's Inland and Amtralia. Drapatchee were sent from Me Celeniel-ollice to the Governors of the North American Pomba& OPRORNE, Sere. 2.—The Queen was this day rto confer the hon our o f knighthood • upon John at naher, Beg , chief surgeon to the Metropolitan Polies.—Gerette. _ - THZ PROPOSED ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA.— Then la • hope, and • well-grounded hope too, that in the mum of neat whew the people of our great American depandandas will bees their feelings gratified by a visit front I mow pauseima serer of the royal family, if not of th e I Q uash sal the Priem assort. This Pell 11/9 aA Iliabki ssy shvelly. We me also enabled toy that She loyal see rtYoab eels whke hen peemplel a request so=and le fume ruceele se sees, aro tally la do WOW leinessa. 'We therefore, wo may tar pane WM Ike esamelting like • Gmett*. oval promos *a good yest of 1859.—Literary ' - LORD CHOUTOIII.—The Wester* Tim.. announces that • meeting will be held at the Globe Hotel on Wednesday nut at Newton Abbott for the purpose of carrying out the object or presenting Lord Churaton with • tribute of regard foe bid long and faithtal services as one of the late represen tatives in parliament of the southern division of the county. MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL,—An additional week haa hem greeted to the scholars of this school, which will mast ha the 2let Waled of the 14th Mat., in honour of the mrtYaa of the Princess Royal. The Prime Consort and the P Pre/ankh WMieet of Petunia are both of them members of the Merchant Taylor.' Company. THE SOYNI-HILL CONFESSIONAL-1 holiday, the 23d instaat., has been Axed for the opening of the commission of inpiry imo the charges brought against the Rev. Mr. West of Reyes-kill Church. The commissioner, have re. mired a notification from the Bishop'. registrar to attend at 10 o'clock on that day at the town-hall, Maidenhead, where the *airy will take place. MATH Or T. A. SMITH, &Q.—We (North Weiss Clireasicie) are this week called upon to record the demise of me of the_prinolpal landowners at this neighbour hood—T. Asthenia Smith, Rm., of Vaeriol, Carnarvonehire, and Tedwerth, in Wiltshire, • " hie old Emboli gentleman, wad the olden time," at the ripe age of 82. Mr. Smith Wee attenelvely known in aristocratic circles, and was much admired he the bemtost4 of bin disposition. He was • great friend of the Duke of Wellington. He wee remarkably load of the hold mad nautical sports. He kept upon h i. eetabilehamet a good pack of hounds, which a fa vourite amemment to has friends, contributed to the prime emirs ef his beelth, and aided to prolong his existence. He we on Me saddle to • may recent period— thoagh ha bas for some time been I. • state of grades! homy. Him pleasure oteemor, which often attracted the attention of persons passing Port Dinorwic, was noted be speed and beauty, and fur having been built with the laden poseibie Improvements. Ile was, at the time of hie death, amasedors, and has been a very liberal °attributor to the Royal Welsh Yacht Club, end extended handsome en meregmmat to the Bangor and other regatta, la the neigh bourhood. Oes of the last and most praiseworthy acts of his . bag life was the areetios sad endowment of • di s t r i ct church , of great beauty ea the kills in the pariah of Dinorwic, the particulars of which we lately had the pleasure of recording, sad I n which evidence of benevolence and piety ha we. I greatly meleted by Mrs. fledth, who remain, to Lomat hie lam R. died me Thursday sight about half-peat ten. Tlll3l SHIPPING INTEREST.--Wit are glad to an hostral that Mere Is sow every probability of an important IMMIIMMe et We port, among shipowners and the ineuraece ommiladmoo tole • view to °kaki the halation of the govern- MOM to the depswed state of eideping. There is, however, hem Mimes of ”hloo as to the but mode of proceeding. The het plea would Its he the eldpowsors of this. ports at OM ne Iliemgmmie a mahimadoo at tie silpotrome ot the ports at dr sottlarati rod, as ie seopeted, moms* a ll airlift main to le be held about the opus. tzarnest min of at whi c h m ee ti ng ass attend hen all the poet pots, had resolutions may he passed calling on the at mos to pot is thee the wee resemed he now, Mn.: to levy such use es to meselprocatiag aotiona as vill ot lotai s rna=tonag• ea meow al =ty with hoeip_ towega is he ite IMMO to dam. will be so 'amity fa pecarkg the atteadaece of =rel 60 wwwltwo of perlimmot le asessagany • depots. ibs Redd Data with a viewers whip the neemilty Mesta ahem= of hada' tbs proposed ...erg may deem postloabla.—Nommatb dilimands. Pons WHIS.-411 tlie teased sale of a celebrated mar of whoa aahagia. be Mr. A. B. Cook (a lunatic), melee et il_ port of Quirks Colabottled in 11123 by Dr. Chitty, Mahar et &dewy herelge, Cam bridge, were tinselled dews at 70a. to 71s, per magnum, or Us. per bettle.—Oimehridge airmids. CLAuu or Brutus Somers 014 TEI 001913M moire or Ream,—Lint lights AMOS aosidaa a soda oallas al Os appolo)mat eta shot somilian Mao* OW dim lila saw at trim Inge dile the dale of the lo thoogeo et iwitgeollosee of In Draillas empire bem ink am Sr ipprommt at bat Balluste Majuty oa tam pert ailli, and i tv i ate individuate, subjects e el / h Mil d ra of I. and upon the govern ment e ere l d l:razil on the w parttaolotcor s = MOO" end GM el v :ll du Alegr or are still bur nomilerad by Ohio( In Iwo so to remain Wl able& The ammitimito ids to at at Rio de Jumbo, at the wiled WIIMIMIMI *hi aim Captain Joseph Daman, Commander of If. M. meam-rheip Illamia, he received • congratulatory address from the Moaltar of Ctomarea, of fit. John's,Newfoundland, ea hie logertot MINN toblo. swim trod red in lying the Atlantic INDIA AND CHINA. The following Telegram, from Mr. Acting Coned- General Omen, was zweeived at the Foreign-odic., Sept. 11, 12.30 a.m. CORFU, Bast. 10, 6 rm. AtILANDRIA, Ort. 7, IS/S. The steamer Ottawa arrived at Sues howl Bombay on the sth instant. Dates—Bombay, 19th ult. and Aden, 29th ult. The steamer Nemesia also arrived at Suez, from Calcutta, on the 6th inst. Oar adherent, Mannaingh, being besieged in the fortress Shaligurij, by a large body of the rebels, has been relieved by General Grant, whose whims is now at Fysabad, where it hu been joined by Manning and his troops. General Robertson, having come up with the rebels near Haturea, totally defeated them, cap turing four guns ; the loss of the enemy in killed was very severe. The Hoe. F. Brooe arrived by the Nemesis, and prooeeded to Malta by the Pers. He is the bearer of the Treaty concluded with the Chinese . . Plenipotentiaries, at Tiensin, on the 28th of June. It was subsequently referred to the Emperor, and received his approval. The following are some of the stipulations of this important document : Christianity tolerated throughout the Empire, and persons teaching or profeseing that religion, whether Protestants or Rom .= Catholics, to be 'staled to the protection of the Chinese authori ties. Diplomatic agents may reside permanently at Pekin. British traders protected against ex cessive transit duties. Tariff to be revised. Several new ports opened to our trade, and the free navigation of the Yang Tze declared. British subjects may travel for pleasure or trade to all parts of the Empire, when provided with pass ports from British authorities. The Governments to act in concert for the suppression of piracy. In demnity for losses by British subjects at Canton to be paid. The steamer Lady Canning arrived at Suez yesterday from Yombo, with the Moorish Princes, who were pillaged on their way back from Med dine, having a heavy ransom. to pay for their relents. A telegram, in the Times, states that nine new posts in China were opened for trade, and the resi dence of a Chinese Ambassador In London, and of an English ambassador at Pekin, is provided for. Lord Elgin and Admiral Sir M. Seymour were en rotas to Japan. At Canton disturbances and bloodshed continued. It is stated from Calcutta that a con spiracy had been discovered in the 18th Punjab Infantry, and that the 76th Regiment was involved is it, but there is no mention of this in the Bombay advioes. The quarantine restrictions in Egypt have been removed. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom coos corm coasseeoxpurr.) PARIE, PunA• EVENING. The news that the Bank of England had lowered its discount yesterday turns out to be a hoax ; and curiously enough, an analogous false rumour with regard to the Bank of France appears to have been current in London. Nevertheless, the Boarse to-day has been extremely firm. Ths Rents rose 30c. for cash, and 40c. for account, closing at 72fr. 56c., and 72fr. 85c. Mobilier rose 40fr. There was a great movement in some of the railway lines. Orleans rose 22fr. 50c.; Eastern, 161 r.; Lyons, 10fr. ; and Northern, Sfr. In the other lime there was scarcely any ultim►te change. Lord Palmerston left Paris at 2 o'clock this after noon, for Boulogne, en route for England. _ _ I learn by private letters from Berlin that immense efforts are making there among court intriguers, to delay the resignation of the King, whioh every patriotic statesman in Prussia knows to be a political necessity. The Archduchess Sophia and other rela tions endeavour to form a line of civcumvallation about the effete monarch, and to galvanise him into an obstinate essertion that he yet pommies his faculties. M. Dapin's speech has elicited some re marks from a widely circulated political correspon dence, which are worth noticing. M. Dupin told his admiring fellow-en:rens of the Nidvre, that the emulation excited by the Universal Exhibition of Paris led to those of London ►nd Vienna. The French writer reminds him that the Universal Ex-' hibition in the Crystal Palace of London took place before that of Paris. I had observed the passage alluded to in the speech, but it struck me as refer ring only to a universal "cattle show," and, although I have not now the text before me, I still think my first impression was right. M. Dupin, whose memory for facts is wonderful, cannot have forgotten that the first experiment of a world's fair was tried in London, and, moreover, upon • scale which has never since been equalled. But the cattle show at which we saw under the same roof Ayrshire bulls, Kerry kine, Durham oxen, and Hun garian cattle, with horns a yard long, was a novelty to the initiative of which France is entitled to claim credit. The critic of M. Dnpin's speech stands on surer ground when he ridicules the vanity of the very eccentric and unfair President of the Legisla tive Assembly in comparing himself to an admiral ruling a fleet amidst tremendous storms. He said that "Admiral Remain Dadaists, an old parliamen tary colleague, was glad to meet his eld president, who, like himself, had palatally navigated a ship amidst the raging waves of assemblies and the rising tide of factions." Upon this boast is very fairly ob served that the President of the Assembly had his bell to ring—his power of calling to order—and his power to put on his hat, and so, ipso facto, suspend sittings. The waves of the ocean are not to be thus dealt with. M. Dupin is in his place as Procareur- General at the Court of Cessation—he is beyond challenge the greatest lawyer of the day; but I do not believe that his reputation will gain either by an inquiry into his conduct while he sat in the chair of the National Assembly, or at the moment when he left it. The growing iatluenoe of the church in the state is, among other symptoms, illustrated by the budget for the year of the city of Paris, which, notwith standing the immense burdens for public works im posed upon it by the law of May 19, 1858, allots for religions edifices a sum amounting to more than double what the municipality has ever before granted for a similar purpose in any one year. From 1848 to 1887 900,000 fr. was the utmost ever voted by the city for church building. During the reign of Louis Philippe 606,000 fr. was the maximum, and under the Restoratioe, a religious government par e rut itace, the maximum from 1816 to 1830 was not more than 686,000 fr. The sum now allotted is 2,000,000 fr. At the same time the subvention to schools, which (as the prefect says) are, in conse quence of the increase of population, in the most nr• gent need of help, is only increased from 300,000 fr. to 400,000 fr. This being so, how is it (asks the &eel') that the church is gratified with an augmentation of more than a million while the " imperative neces sities" of the schools are only put off with 100,000 fr.? A latter from Cairo , of Avast 20, mays : A few d t asin iak : sa s we bed here • groat roma of magiciaas :l a c very zany at them (their chief is smoag the *primps. This msasurehaaheea resorted to is taasequao• of • prophecy of the AK assaaactag that Said Paella eras near his tad, end that Ibrahim Pasha would encored to his throws. The Viceroy has some »aeon to be sunned, wilts L poismbart that the death of Abbas Packs, was Pro =i PIM short time before the munier. !Seventy six des those ta prism, are banished, by mdse . Seventy of Sai Pad* by a town called Tosoqbet, on the banks of the Blue Rim, in the Soudan. The budget of news from Germany mentions the arrival at the Isle of Ragen of Mr. Carlyle, who is travelling over the battle-fields of Fredericl the Great, to collect materials for a history of that monarch. ITALY. THE TWO SICILIES. (lion ors. OWN 00213SPONDINT.) NAPLES, Ave. 31. The following letter, which hu just been received by a friend of one of the prisoners lately condemned at Salerno, gives a graphic picture of the details of their voyage, and of their entrance upon their prison house : " It is now the fifteenth day since oar ups, ration, and to us it appears as though fifteen years had pared. Cruel separation ! It has left a vacancy in our hearts which can never be filled up until we are once more permitted to embrace one another, and to remain always united. Your presence is ea necessary to us as the light of ' day ; and were it not for the firmness of our princi ples and the justice and holiness of our cause which temper our grief, we should feel the weight of it much more strongly. It will be very interesting to you to hear some minute details of our voyage ; and oar narrative shall begin from the beginning, so as to enure you that that civil courage and dig nity which have on other occasions been observed in the political prisoners of Salerno, have never failed even the lowest of those now condemned— that their chain has, on the contrary, infused into them a fresh ardour. We will inform you, too, of some of those indications of refined barbarity which this government ever practises on political pri soners, notwithstanding the execration of entire Europe into which it has fallen. When we came down from the Compress' (a portion of the prison of Salerno), we found that our Genoese brothers had already put on the chain of martyrdom. There were present at the scene, the executioner and his two assistants, the inspector of police, the principal gaoler, and the lieutenant of gendarmes. As soon u we were ironed, we all of us, without excep tion, kissed our chains; and on some of us being asked by the executioner why we did so, we replied, ' Because after much trial and suffering we had won the brightest ornament in the world.' At so much intrepidity and self-sacrifice the very offi cers were moved, and especially —. Sublime sacrifice made to liberty in an age of corruption ! Two by two we then desoeoded into the court, where we met that grieving mother (Madame Poggi) who, with the courage of a true Italian matron, after having kissed all the prisoners, exhorted us to be firm and fearless in presence of our enemies. During the short time that we remained we never ceased to be cheerful and to sing. At length we moved out of the prison, and pared through the Strada delis Marina, which was crowded with people, who as usual did not hesitate to show themselves grieved at our misfortunes, and some were seen to weep. On arriving on the beach we peseta through a double line of the rifles, first having been scrupulously examined both in our persons and effects, and being deprived even of our needles. We then entered five boats, followed and preceded by soldiers in other boats, besides those whom we had with us. I have omitted to say that besides the chain, we were fastened with ropes and manacles during our passage through the city. On getting on board the steamer, the Stromboli, the Genoese were compelled to go below, whilst we remained above. At the hour of night the wheels began to cut the water, and we bads a tender adieu to Salerno, to our prison, and to our friends, followed by the looks of a weeping and terrified multitude, who gazed with horror on that moving scene. In the morning we knew that the steamer was under the command of Captain Caraceiolo. . . . (The orders were, to treat them with the utmost rigour, and to attach them to the puntale,' an iron bar). At Messina we arrived after a voyage of 24 hours, coasting along by the Calabria& Here our wounds were opened afresh by being compelled to separate ourselves from our dear brothers, who, it is said, have been sent to the Bagno of Fevignana. After resting here a day, we continued our route to our destination, not with out giving our salute to beautiful Sicily, which had awakened within es tender recollections of the sacri fices she has made to preserve her liberty. Majestic city, whose traditions and history attest too well her grandeur! After stopping again at Brindisi and for two days coasting along by Cape Levee, we arrived at Pescara. The captain fired a signal for a pilot, who, after a few moments, came alongside, and re ceiving his orders, returned to land. A large boat, fall of ferocious looking policemen, then made its appear ance. From the steamer we were transferred to the boat, and packed into a kind of well, so narrow, that we were as close to gether as salt herrings. On landing we came in view of the sad-looking building of the Bagno, which, like the ancient feudal castles, rises dark and gloomy above the river. Always surrounded by the 3rd battalion of rifles, we entered the prison amidst the ceaseless clank of chains, and it the afflicting sight which presented itself of shackles and of sbirri, we could not help exclaiming, "Lasciate ogni sperausa, voi ch' entrate." But, thanks to the firm ness of our principles, tyranny can never crash us—the blood which has been shed does not destroy us, bat linden us yet more determined. We passed before our dwelling-place, prepared for us fifteen days before, and I assure you that it is a true den for wild b easts.; On arriving in the court, the keepers ranged us in two lines and began to search us in our persona sad baggage. They then addressed us regarding the conduct we were to observe in the Bagno, directing that we were to take our hats off whenever we came into their presence. We observed silence whilst they talked, but did not obey the direction. After the lapse of half an hour, the commander of the Bagno made his appearance, and asked for La Sala. On his being pointed oat to him, he began by giving him a blow, saying, at the same time, " Qul non si fa il Camorista " (you will not play the Camorista hero). At this indignity the young man boldly replied that his principles and his education protested against the abject cruelty of op pressing the oppressed, and that he should have well investigated an intrigue which might have cast a stain upon him that would have been extremely injurious. In fact, the charge was cleared up, and it was evident that it arose from the commander's having misunderstood the report he had received from Salerno, in consequence of his being unable to read well. At last our irons were taken off, and other larger and heavier chains were put on. On fastening the chains upon Tacohio, the com mander haling ordered the sbirro -to make him rich by giving him a bit more of iron, the courageous youth replied, " You say well, Signor Commandants, for I value this chain above all treasure. Our cheerfulness and oar firmness are measureless ; our chain, far from being a weight, is as a precious ornament to us ; since we have this con sciousness, that it is not that which criminals wear in expiation of their sins, bat that which is worn by illustrious martyrs, already marked in the book of immortality. We have found here twenty of our excel lent brothers who salute you warmly, but we have held no intercourse with them, for we are separated from all in the den I have described above, where we receive light by three airholes two palms long and one palm wide, &c , &c." The details given in the early part of this letter have been already made known. I publish it in order to give an insight into the present life of these men, and to show forth the indomitable spirit by which these men are animated. There are thou sands like them, and it is the grossest folly imagi nable on the part of this government to think that Italians can be kept down b' oppression. The sooner that a return is made to Justine the better for the security of the reigning dynasties, and for the pease of this unhappy land. TURKEY. (FROM OTYR SPECIAL COILUISPONDINT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, !Arr. I. The put week has been a stirring one at the Porte. Still full of the new-born energy which bore fruit, the week before, in the displacement of the Grand Muter of the Ordnance, and in the appoint ment of the Committee of Inspection into the Debts of the Civil List, the Sultan, without previous notice to anyone, betook himself on Friday, after mosque, to the Bureau of the Grand Vizier and, summoning thither the whole of the Ministers, reed them such a lecture u has not fallen on Pashalistic ears since the ticklish days of Mahmoud. An im perial hdt (edict) on the state of the Treasury—in which all Departments of the Government *ere rated for their lavish extravagance and want of probity, with the expression of his Majesty's firm resole ies to insist on the most vigorous financial reforms fat every branch of the Administration—form& the text, so to speak, of a harangue, which " touched up" the astounded dignitaries in a style of diction not often used by royal lips. las assured, indeed, by a friend, whose informant was one of the functionaries addressed, that such a storm of abusive epithets—and Turkish is specially rich in these aids to vigorous speech—never burst upon Divan before ; nothing like it, in fact, had been heard at the Porte since the good old times when Sultauic wrath need to find vent in basting Vizierild jaws with the ready pipe-etick or slipper. _Bat all this was only precursive to worse. On Saturday his Majesty again repaired to Stamboul, and, calling another meeting of the whole goverie: went posse, singled out Mehemet Ali Pasha, his owe brother-in-law, and Minister of Marine, for @pedal reproach, upbraided him with whol esale ma .ad ministration at the Arsenal, and dismissed IshU from his office. Passing then fromplt governmental mal-practices to the an abuses of the imperial household and those of his married daughters, he turned to his four sons in-law, Ali Uhalib, Ethem Mahmoad, and 11-hami Pubes ; and a ft er rating all four with equal force of diction for the lavish extravagance of their wives and of their establishments Ili nerally,degraded them too—the first from his post of Minister of Commerce, and the other three from their lucrative sinecures in the Supreme COORCiI. The effect which all this pro deeed upon the assembled body of Ministers— excepting Rises Pashs, who was specially praised for his patriotic energy—may be more easi imagined than described. Each self-convicte d dignitary momentarily expected his own official annihilation and all breathed easily and with gratitude to the Prophet, when nothing worse followed than the ex pression of his Majesty'e intention to reduce by about ass third the salaries of all the high officers, civil and military, of the State, and to out down the absurdly nu merous personnel of the Supreme Council to a maxi mum of 12 members, whose salaries shall be lowered in like manner. Since Saturday, the poste rendered vacant by these dismissals have been re-filled by the appointment of Mehemet Kipriali Pasha, previously President of the Council of Tansimat, to the Ministry et Marine ; and of Mahmotid Puha, now Minister ei interim of Foreign Affairs, to that of Commerce, vacated byAli Ghalib ; while Mehemet Rusbdi Pasha, the ex-Master of the Ordnance, becomes Chief of the Tanzimat, and the three seats in the Supreme Council et State remain empty. Such are the modifications; i propos of which I need merely remark that the new Capudan Pasha, Mehemet Hipriali, was for merly Ambassador at London, and that he is strongly pro-French in his political sympathies. To the local excitement produced by these energetic doings of the Sultan is now added that which was yesterday occasioned throughout Galata by the telegraphic news of the loan at length effected in London. As you are already', doubtless, perfectly ac quainted with all the details of this transaction, I need do little more than say that the terms, 6,000,0001. at 85 per cent, with 6 per cent. interest, and 2 per cent. commission, are here considered to be very fa vourable for the Government. The doings at the Porte, on Friday and Saturday, above referred to, had already brought down the exchange from 1731 to 170, but the telegram announcing the loan at once increased the fall to 1601, which, since this morning, has further sunk to 166, with every pros pect of a rapid additional decline. It is not proba ble, however, that the fall will go below 140, if it even reach that figure; for the actual 41 millions, ar so, of the loan has many a wide gap to fill, even if honestly doled out. That it will, nevertheless, have an excellent present effect upon the local trade, both import and export, there can be no doubt ; for, dependent as this place is upon Go vernment transactions, the condition of the 'Trea sury is at all times the measure of its activity. If past experience of the futility of reliance upon the promises and "good intentions" of the Government, paraded with ever so much patriotic unction, did not make one distrustful of even its most re apparently since pledges of reform, some degree of -hopeful ness might be excited by this spasmodic energy of the Sultan ; but, in view of his utter effeteness, men tal as well as bodily, and of the prescriptive corrup tion that taints and pervades every department of the administration, one's faith is sorely tried. An immediate consequence of the loan, of conrekl is the falling to the ground of the Society en emu nsandite for the maintenance of the exchange at 160, by the supply of 800,0001. worth of bills at that price. Unfortunately for the Government, the °entree' with the members of this Society was signed by the Minister of Finance on Saturday evening, some 66 hours before the news of the loan reached the Porte, which is thus " let in" for the 16,0001. COMM;l1dill (at 2 per cent) on the transaction. Though no ire* has yet been issued on the subject, there can be bat little doubt that this will be insisted on by the Society, of whose ability, by the way, to carry sat its own share of the bargain very few had hopes. Since I last wrote, Mr. Longworth's report has been received by Sir H. Bulwer from Candia, and it entirely disproved, as I was prepared to expect it would, the whole of the charges made against Mt. Ongley, our Consul in the island. Instead of his having connived at the "oppression" of Vely Pasha for corrupt purposes of gain, the report declares (so I am assured) that Mr. Ongley did more this the whole of the other Consuls together towards furthering the just demands of the malcontents, whilst at the same time he as strongly refrained from lending himself to the French and Austrian plot for the overthrow of the Governor. Of Vely himself, Mr. Longworth, I understand, speaks in terms very different from those employed by his Consular libellers, and rebuts—so far as the testi mony of a non-resident in the island can do so—tbe charges of corruption and fanaticism which have been so industriously and loudly circulated to hie prejudice. In the meantime Mr. Ongley has gene to Jauy to administer the C.onenlate there, which Imo been left suddenly vacant by the death of Mr. Gus.; diner. On Saturday morning a very extensive seizure of false mimes was made at the Custom-House on the person and in the trunks of a lady passenger by the Liverpool steamer. She had joined the ship at Byre, and on landing, in all the Flory of a gorgeous toi lette and immeasurable crinoline, attempted to get through the hands of the officials by the generally quick and easy agency of a beckeliesels: but whether from a vicious pruriency to plumb the crinoline, or through legitimate suspicion excited by its unusual Diu, the Bey insisted on subjecting the ;luckless fair one to an examination, which resulted in the discovery of 80,000 piastres in false notes, stowed away in the mysterious amplitudes of her vetements de dessous. Between the false bottoms of her trunks were discovered some four millions of piastres, of the same spurious manufacture, all admirably executed. The fair sinner, who is said to belong to a wen'thy Moldavian Bayard family, was forthwith conaigned to the loathsome misery of the Turkish prison, the authorities making a general confiscation of the whole of her effects, with the crinoline to boot. DENMARK AND THE GERMAN DIET. FRANKFORT, FRIDAY. The answer er Denmark was yesterday received by the Diet and communicated to the committee. A RIDE FROM BEYROUT TO BAALBEC AND DAYABCIIB. No. IV. A bleak and barren spot is the Mrid, the summit of the pass from which one looks westward to the sea, and eastward upon the B'kaa end the range of Anti-Lebanon. As we halted here to let a long train of mules go by, my companions told me dreary stories of muleteers frosen to death in snow storms at this wild locality, where even in April my horse's feet crunched through the snow that lay unmelted in large patches . After the mules came some solemn, ungainly camels, laden with planks and furniture and I wondered how they would manage to d escen d by the road we had followed. I learned, however, that they would go by an upper path, along the edge of the precipice, over which the mules and muleteers occasionally fall in the winter time when the weather is thick, and the snow on the ground, and are dashed to pieces at the foot. A half-hour's ride brought us to a Khan lower down the mountain, and my carpet was spread by the Bide of a little stream, the Khan being occupied by a troop of truculent looking Bashi-Bazouks, whose horses were tethered to span near the spot we had selected for our halt. Takoob lighted a fire and made coffee, and after our hour's rest and meal we started again. A turn of the road brought us to a commandisg spot where we had a picturesque view of the rugged and bleak ravines of the mountain, and of the plain of the Blatt lying below us like a vast bowling-green, dotted here and there spa rs ely with villages, but without a tree visible upon it—all oorn and grass. At the mouth of the ravine, and on the border of the plain, was Rub Elias, and the ruins of the old castle, intended for the protection of the road and plain from the incursions of the Bedawi, while in the distance Gebel el Sheik, Mount Hermon, towered boldly up, covered with snow. From this point a good road conducted us to Zahle, and in the coarse of the descent I noticed abundant traces of iron and manganese, with many specimens of fossils. In fact, the whole road from Beyrout was worth the attention of the geologist and mine. ralogist, while the botanist would find abundant occupation and amusement. How beautiful the wild flowers of the Lebanon are, and how curious some of their forms ! When there is verdure the earth is literally a carpet of flowers, and anything more magnificent than the brilliant colours one looks down on can hardly be conceived. All this, however, has been told by learned pens in various languages, and so I intro. duce you to Zahle, the capital of the eastern Lebanon, where we arrived about half-past two, and which, by the direct road, is about eight hours' ride from Beyrout. The town is very picturesque, as seen from a little distance, occupying the two steep slopes of a mountain gorge, so steep that you may walk from one street on to the flat tops of the houses in that below. At the foot of the ravine runs the rapid river Berdaoun, which rushes through a cleft in the rocks at the head of tke ravine, whose perpendicular sides are washed by the torrent, so that there is no issue from the town in that direction except by a long detour over the mountain. Zahle contains about 12,000 inhabitants, notoriously insubordinate, holding the authority of the Governor of the Lebanon very cheap. They are rather partial to getting up feuds among themselves, and enjoying a little shooting and stabbing, there being at the time of my visit a deadly quarrel be tween Zahle proper and its suburb Moellskah, on the other side of the river. Maloof, the chief of the Zahle faction, called upon me, but I could not understand what it was all about except that on both aides men had been killed and their death was to be avenged. The bulk of the inha bitants are Greek Catholics, but there are also Jesuit schools here, and religious intolerance is in high feather, the Christianity being of the purest Holy Land water. I alighted at a species of hotel, when the first individual I met was an unfortunate American mid. sionary, who was a sort of prisoner there, not daring to go about the town, and i n hourly dread of forcible expulsion from the Zahle territory. The advent of a " bible man " had exasperated the Christians to the last degree, and Greek and Roman catholic forgot their quarrels for a time to fall foul of this terrible interloper. I went to pay a visit to the superior of one of the Greek convents, and found the place rather dirty and dilapidated. He invited me to take up my quarters there, but I shuddered at the idea of such beds as I saw, and was moreover very well off at Marianna's, which had been fur nished in European fashion, possessing a table, chairs, and the unusual luxury of a basin and jog. On my road to the convent I observed that most of the houses were built of very large bricks, made from the chalky mud of the hill sides mingled with straw. They are dried is the sun and appear tolerably durable. The chief trade of Zahle is in wool, but it is the depot for the merchandise entering the Lebanon from the B'kaa and Damascus, and the inhabitants are gene rally well to do—some very rich. It used to be famous for its armourers' work, but I found nothing remarkable in that way, and some silver orna ments which I saw in process of manufacture gave me a rather low idea of the Hunt and Itoskell of the place. The tools were of the rudest kind ; file., burnishers, and soldering irons more like those of a gasfitter than of a jeweller, and the wonder was how they did their work so well with them. Blacksmiths abounded, and I boughVa pair of horseshoes, of the kind used throughout Syria. They are simply a plate of iron of the shape of the sole of the hoof, with a hole towards the hinder part corresponding with the frog, and are slightly convex on the upper side. I have heard but one opinion as to their supe riority to the English shoe, and certainly they an swer admirably in the mountain, and are very light. Having no projections except the heads of the nails, they allow the horses, in descending the mountains, to slide down the smooth sloping stones one often meets with, an operation which makes a looker-en, unused to the matter, rather nervous. At the manse time they offer no impediment to the horse in climb ing these same stony ascents, not slipping more than an English shoe would do, and the hoof seems to have freer play and better support. Bat if their shoes are good, the Arab raddled and stirrups are awful. The former arc padded and covered with cloth or velvet, and are very hot and heavy; the latter are those cruel square shovels, the corners of which I have often seen used most mercilessly, and which literally cut the skin, so that in an exciting jereed play . you will often find the meidan, or course, marked w ith streaks of blood from the horses' sides. There is no doubt that yea can make a horse go with them, and that with an Arab bit YOU can bring him on his haunches very readily ' • but a good rider can do all with European bits and spurs that an Arab can with his tools ; and in fact I saw a Polish nobleman, well known in English society,ride with a common bridle and saddle, and without spurs, a stallion who was the dried of the grooms of the Caimacen. The Arab horse is very light and flexible, and the riders are food of exhibiting those qualities ; but men who have seen much Arab horsemen tell me that they do not con sider them equal, as riders, to Europeans, and that while the latter could do all that an Arab can with an Arab horse and equipments, an Eastern would make but a poor figure in a hunting field with a horse such as some of our countrymen peril their necks on. Tan AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Australian Mail just brought home is the Tcvlot contained 91,0001etterv. litho ietoria nail steamer had arrived out at Australia before the Teviot's mails had been despatched, it is "specked that the would have brought home ten or fifteen 'hared man letters than she did, in answers to the Vistoris's rear spondence. A MORMON PREACHER TRAVELLING THE CMS.. TRY 1/4 • VIELOCIPIDI.—TbIa week a letter him bee dressed to Superintendent Jargard from Mr. Jebben, Ike deputy chief constable of Bedford, Mating that a OWL WWI Thomas Alfred Jeffery, a Mormon, of We Bedford, has been arrested and remanded till A t f e o Tukwil day), on the charge of having in Us pommel's a Mr. Law) answering In deo:Option to the Om swim hew of Cambridge, on the 30th dt. Jaw, says ttat esirj g chased the velccipede of Howes, set Asa left and travelled with It Into Norfolk sod preaching and collecting rabsteiptions rir=tim alai Mormons. Mr. Jebbatt has requited Mr. Howse sl saes at Bedford. to give evidence spire the it will be seen from oar lest weeks police report did velocipede taken from Mr. Howes hoe bean fouad•—Hiew bridge Itedependene. I l.