The Express. — London, England, 1860-08-31 00:00:00

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Hal Tie : M. Harr —Onnnseriat T. 11111T#N!flA., TEOYana& A Lliriflii - 1.41: or. The Bunion n( Gallt.—Mentra. wi de and Raytheon . Irlt. W Crawford. APOILID CMILD. Wake Koala ; Yls. Downing. And Tag SIOOAES PIIIMON. Xis. Z. Yentold. 1101 wit= AT LONDON MUM. Tani DAT—Mamba 11. Akar" S. SW To-aosusoir—lllanita& *Oa—. MMus% lb. Ma LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31. THE recent decree of the Emperor of the FRENCEI in favour of the free importation of foreign corn and flour during the next twelve months is framed in a manner calculated to suggest ideas of a change of policy wider and more lasting than that which a prevision merely against a casual defi• ciency of food implies. It is not the first time that French ports have been peremptorily thrown open by command of the Executive Government to guard against the danger of impending scarcity; but it is the first time, we believe, that the dif ferential dues on foreign shipping employed in the grain trade have been wholly superseded for so long a period as a whole year. Under other cir cumstances, this suspension of the Navigation Laws of France in a matter so important as that of corn might not, perhaps, de serve particular remark, save in so far se it might be regarded as furnishing an additional illustration of the error and evil of the exclusive system. We cannot forget that in 1840 a precisely similar course was recommended by Lord DISBY and his friends, as the best means of reconciling the exigencies of temporary famine with the permanent maintenance of agri cultural protection. Sir Mincer PEEL appreciated clearly the consequences of such a measure, and refused to adopt it because he foresaw that in a country like ours, with a free Parliament and a free press, free trade in corn for twelve months would inevitably make itself free trade in corn for ever ; and he wisely and honourably declined to be a party to accomplishing a great good by means of a great political swindle. The political con dition of the two countries, however, makes all the difference in the moral probabilities incident to such an act of administrative power as that in question ; and few will be found to contend that NAPOLEON 111., if ho lives and reigns as Imperial master of France in August, 1861, may not if he pleases restore any differential duties on corn, and differential duties on the ship ping wherein it is borne, provided no serious defi ciency in next year's harvest shall appear immi nent. Were the present ruler of France a mere royal jobber, with no higher ambition than that of politically living from hand to mouth, and making as much money as possible each half-year out of the business of governing, we should attach no permanent significance to the decree we have referred to, and we should antici pate from it no other results than those of a cer tein but short-lived good. Many things tend just now to create in men's minds a different impres sion regarding the designs and purposes of the thoughtful and taciturn Chief of the French govern ment. Everybody understands that to his indivi dual conviction of the superior policy of Free Trade, rather than to any general progress of opinion made in that direction, is attributable the Commercial Treaty of January last ; and every body understands that in a ritime whose stability depends so much on the permanent sequin/cones of those who are governed in the general tenour of the acts of Government, it can never seem ex pedient, and can never be so, to stir controveraisi and unsettle established usages, unless there he a prospect of substituting another and • better system likely to prove more creditable to its authors, and more popular with the many. For the moment it cannot be doubted that the Euraaon incurs a considerable amount of odium amongst the classes interested in monopoly by the mea sure. he has taken to reduce it within bounds ; and the practical benefits which the COIDEN Tivaty are calculated to afford eventually have hardly yet become palpable to the naked eye of labour. At such a juncture it is hardly con ceivable that the Imperial resolution would have lightly been taken to suspend not only the eliding scale of duties on grain for the space of a twelvemonth, but aloe the differential charges on Mesh, American, and other vessels freighted therewith- Nor can we persuade ourselves that the additional jealonly with which the latter part of the decree lately published is likely to be re garded would have been provoked just now, mime the step so taken were one of a series in a peat though gradual change of policy silently predates , mined. In • word, we venture to entertain the hope that we have now before us the com mencement of an improved system of commercial intercourse in shipping as well se in manhandle ; and that the relaxation now panted to vessels employed in the corn trade, no matter what flag they sail under, will ere long be followed up by similar measures regarding ships employed iu other branches of commerce. In the Report of the Select Committee on Men haut Shippmc, to ‘4lmh we have recently called attention, the anomalies of the existing system of French Navigation Laws are strikingly illustrated, and the international policy of their removal is strongly urged. The British ship owners who carry on the present restricted and scarcely tolerated intercourse with the colonies of France, Spain, and Portugal, find their ships placed at an immense disadvantage in the unequal competition which they have to encounter, while they have the mortification to see foreign ships resort to our own colonies, and secure much higher freights than our own ships when chartered to a port in Europe. From the Mauri tius to Europe, a French ship, enjoying the option of the British or French markets, obtains a freight for sugar of 3/. 10s. per ton, while English ships are taking cargo at the low rate of 10s. per ton. "It is very galling," says an extensive ship owner, to " see my ship lying in Calcutta getting " 15s. a ton, and a French ship lying alongside " getting 605., 705., and 80s. a ton ; and the " Committee cannot but express an opi " nion that this is • state of things " which requires that every effort of the Govern " meat should be directed to get it placed upon a " more equal and satisfactory footing." The pro fits of the French shipowners arising out of this system of differential dues is estimated at not less than 300,0001. a year, the greater part of which is paid no doubt by French consumers in the shape of the enhanced price of foreign produce : and it is also unquestionably true that if the trade were thrown open, no such exorbitant freights as those now netted by the mercantile marine of our neigh bours would be obtainable either by us or them, the inevitable tendency of competition being to equalise as well as to reduce profits : it is, never theless, true that a substantial grievance would be removed, and great and unrequited loss to the shipowners of both countries would in future be obviated. The sagacious arbiter of French inter ests cannot fail to recognise the irrefragable logic of those who contend for general competi tion as opposed to exceptional privilege. The self-interest of his dynasty concurs with the sug gestions of abstract reasoning, and prompts him continually to prefer the comfort and well-being of the many whom he governs to the factitious enrichment of the few. Some few shipowners of Marseilles and Havre may grumble at the premonitory symptoms of remedial change, as our own old friends of St. Michael's-alley were wont to do previous to the repeal of our Naviga tion Laws in 1850. But Naeoison 111. has nothing to fear from their rll-humour if he entitles himself to tell thirty-five millions of Frenchmen that he has initiated a policy which secures for them permanently the cheapest freights for corn, sugar, coffee, wool, cotton, tobacco, and all the other articles of foreign produce they consume, and that he has thereby permanently rednced the cost. Ut Court. BALMORAL, Auorerr 28. Her 31ajesty, accompanied by Princtea and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Bung, left Alt-na- Guiwich yesterday morning, Rod returned to the Castle in the evening, having ridden round by Loch ('nllater. The Prince Consort went out deer-stalking, and returned to the Caatle in the evening. The Prince and Princess of Leiniogen arrived at the Castle yesterdly on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort. Lady Churchill has relieved Lady Macdonald as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. They; wan no addition to her Majeaty'A dinner party. Despair-hes for the Governor of Caoa la were sent yester day from the Colonial•ofrice. The Prince Dori* Pamphili , accompanied by the Rev. W. Cala Ms left Itaarigy's Hotel for Ostend. Lord Panmure and the Hon. Mime Mettle have arrived at Claridge /2 Hotel from Wiesbaden. The Prima.; Frederic William wax " churched" on Sunday bid. The Iciness and Princensee of Piedmont, includ ing the Duchess of Genoa, arrived at Como on the 28th, and were received by the population with great enthusiasm. Kosauth'a sons, one aged 19, the other 18, are now at Milan, and are shortly to meet their father ►t Turin. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FRIDAY. An appropriate monument is now in preparntion, to be erected at St. Paul's Church, Penrance, to the memory of old Dolly Pentreath, who is said to be the last person who 'poke the Cornish language. This will bear a suitable inscription, and is, conjointly, being prepared by the vicar anti Prince Lucien Bonaparte The Nazione of Florence announces that it has received an order from the government to suppress the Anne of Savoy which it bean on its first page, until it has applied for and obtained permission to use them. The Nazione adds that, since it knows of no law prohibiting the use of those arms, it does not intend to comply with the injunction. Also that the promulgation of these statutes should not in any way prejudice the right of the diet to claim changes and modifications of proved necessity and utility. The autograph letter should likewise announce the immediate promulgation of the electoral law both as regards the formation of the provincial diets, and the definitive constitution of the enlarged council of the empire. The ministers hope that such an autograph letter would prevent political debates in the Reichsrath, and allow the government to tranquilly close the session with the increased confidence of the country. "Letters state," *aye the Courtitutiound, "that Prince Oiovanelli has purthaaed from the Duke of Modena a east estate on the banks of the Adige ; also that an agent of hi royal higimeas is now at Padua, charged to sell all the real property he pastimes in Lombardy and Venetia. These circumstances appear to indicate that the duke has abandoned all hope* of returning to Italy." A letter from Beyrout of August 16, from a special correspondent of the Prase, who passed through Eopt on his way to Syria, relates the following :—" The Viceroy displays great energy in favour of the Christians. Pour ulemaa of Caine her* preached in the Mehemet Ali mosque the doctrine that the Christians ought to be eater ! minated, the viceroy asked the governor, who cares to I give him an account of the affair, what had become of the guilty partial. On being told that they were iu pries, his highness rcp'ied, ' I am glad to bear it ; had it been other ' vise, you should go to prime yourself.' He them gave orders that the four ulemas should be strangled, and they were executed accordingly at owe." VENICE. TRIESTE, FRIDAY. Nonni ATIASTIC TiLlmt•rs.—A letter from Captain Allen Taw& dated Haldersvig, August 7th, states that the lox was en the pat of starting for looked altar • soccowtal warm of the Parbe Isles. All wan oo board. Tan P,OTAI. Clll,lllllS.—The public, and espe cially the Meade at tho N parsons wrecked in the above ship, will ho wary to hats that the Ray. Stephen Hughes, the * good elergymia of Llawalga, has been confined to big bad foe vow wooli+ hams severe attack of rhen ium& foyer, brought as by ausliweed exposure daring the bolomat winter of the pent year, in the dreary bay el Moratins. A oorroursolluet, who called to thank the worthy risqyaina tar his Mod attentions to the wish,. of the widow of the liwaratad Dr. Hatch, the surgeon of the Royal Metter, whose maim we interred at Llanafigs, heard Smith that regret which he feels will he participated in by • sympithir — eg public generally. He was informed that • body —a female, with a weddiorring on her Inger had been recovered so reeently ea • month ago. A uctrzer Coins, he, —The finding at gold, silver, sal coooppppeerr case, ornessents, and other relics, having led iershie confusion rad diwittisfa-tii.ii •llloei the ladies and those debiting a right to them, her Wjre i ty's government have issued, through the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the following Instruc tions :—" Whitehall. Aug : 27. —Sir, —I am authorised by Secretary Sir George Lewi. to inform you that the Lords Oammiseionen d the Treasury hare been pleased to autho rise the mimed to And e rs al ee ri est coins, gold or silver ornameets, and other Mks of antiquity is Uland and Wale., of the actual mho of the articles no the same Twin; delivered up foe behoof of the crown, and I am to rtvirst that you will instruct the police offiners of your county 4. gire notice of the instructions of her Majesty'. goverunwrit, and to inform all persons who shall hereafter make discoveriee of aay each articles that on their deliver• beg them to the sheriff they will receive from the tromory rewards equal in amount to the full intrinsic value of the articles. In all cases where it shall come to the Wielded.* of the police that each 'Akio. have been foond, .sd that the pemetes having foiled them refuse or neglect to deliv e r turn , Xll' fleare Taisho devirm Oust me: wires may be lawn for their recovery, awl that information may be for warded to him. —I &le, sir, your obedient servant, G. (*Live.. Tu the Chi e f evesidibie at -- ." The Austrian government, foreseeing an attack on Venetia, is most actively carrying on the works for the completion of a branch line to connect the Venetian railways with those of Germany. On the sth of September the line from Nabresina to Udine will be inaugurated. This railway will enable Austria to transpot a considerable force to Venetia in a few days. THE CALLERIAN EXPEDITION. XESBLVA, AUGCBT 26 (Yu Masasuzze). Colonel De Flotte, the French republican, and one of Gartlaldi's officers, was killed in the an ent before Reggio. Garibaldi ordered splendid obsequies in his honour. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Avo. 22 (vil MAIBUILLINS). . , . Notwithstanding tee representations or tae am bassadors, iturchul Puha remained at Constanti nople until K de Lavalette again insisted and ob tained his departure, in order that he might be brought to trial in Syria. The Mussulman inhabitants are assuming a threatening attitude. The garriao• has beenin creased, but the soldiers' pay IS still in arrears. According to advice. from Syria General Beau fort, in a proclamation, had prohibited the Maro nites from renewing the conflict. THE EXPRESS, PAY EVE Nf "f:\ lNG, AUGUST 1, 1860. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE JOURNEY OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. MADRID, &tram. 30. The Emperor of the French, on hie return jour ney from Algeria, will atop at Barcelona, where he wisher to have an interview with Queen Isabella 11. It is asserted that the ministers have agreed to propose the following resolution for adoption by his Majesty, namely : That at the opening of the first full sitting of the Reicharath the President Archduke Renier should read to the assembly an autograph letter of the Empe ror. In this letter, after having stated the sincerity of his intentions to give satisfaction to the legitimate wishes of the people, the Emperor should promise to take into serious consideration the views ex pressed in the two reports of the committee of 21. But while awaiting a means to reconcile the oppo site tendencies of the majority and minority of that committee, the Emperor, in order not to adjourn the political regeneration of the empire, con siders that in his sovereign capacity he should grant the statutes of the provincial diets, and fix beforehand their precise privileges, thus assuring and guaranteeing the autonomy of each province. Lady George trey went no further than:ltio Janeiro, but returned to Seemed in the Boecawen. Sir Frederick Grey and lady left for Englead on the 6th ultimo. Admiral Keppel had gone on a cruise in the Brisk shag the east coast, taking Neilson and the sources of the Nita expedition, which arrived in the Forte, and a party from the Cape, which had volunteered to moist. The expedition would land at Zanzibar. Parliament wee prorogued on the 17th. In the sesaion, which lasted eighty days, thirty-one bills had been passed, and nearly a million sterling voted. The excavation* for a breakwater in Table Bay had been commenced. A telegraph line from Cape Town to the frontier would be laid down next year. The Natal railway bad been opened. The Free state and 'Fransviud were tranquil and Pip• One hundred Mapal Kaffir hunters had been manacred in Zululand. The frontier liters were unsettled, and horse-stealing had increased to an alarming extent. No news of Dr. Livingstone's expedition. The missionesise in Nosilikatees had been badly treated. Mr. Moffatt was daily expected from that country. Business at the Cape was exceedingly slack. Import■ were very dull. The only vessel which had cleared with exports was the nail steamer Norman. Shipments of wine were withheld. Salt was in great demand. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rim( ova OWN PARIS, TIOBSDAT EVINING. MINI a Count de Morny, who was expected to make a speech at the opening of the Council-General of the Puy de Dame, did not appear there ; he has gone on an excursion. At the Council-General of the Bits Rhin, MarshalMagnan said he had it from the Emperor's own mouth that peace would be main tained. But he added—and the addition manifestly qualifies the first assertion—that it would be con trary to the intentions and wishes of the Emperor if the good relations between the powers should be broken. The declaration in this form cannot be called reassuring, for it is quite certain that when ever the Emperor goes to war he will always say that it is not his fault. Marshal Niel has been also making what is called a pacific speech at Tou louse ; but he says, quite naturally for a French man, and quite rightly, too, if his words have no double meaning, that it is "in the friendship and not in the impotence of France that the guarantees of peace must now be sought." Unfortunately the distrust of France, admitted and complained of by the Emperor himself, is at this moment greater than it has been at any moment since the battle of Waterloo ; and, therefore, the assertion that peace will not be broken if all the powers remain friendly with her, means very little. M. de Martino, son of the Neapolitan minister, is announced as having arrived at Marseilles (by this time he must be in Paris), with despatches for the French government. At the Bourse the Rents, after trifling fluctua tions, closed with some firmness (attributed to Count de Persigny's speech), at 68fr. 10c. and 68fr. 5c., with a rise of 10c. and sc. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways, in the, quotations of which there was no change worth noting, were on the whole rather weaker. lam very sorry to hear, from a source which I fear ix good, that Lieutenant de Flotte, of the French navy, member for Paris in 1850, was killed in Calabria (at Solano), while charging at the head of one of Garibaldi's column~ THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO SYRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Auou 13. The curtain has risen for the first act of this drama, and how it will end is a question no one can foresee. There are two perils against which it is difficult to guard • firstly, the explosion of Moslem fanaticism in the interior on the news of the arrival of Christian soldiers ; and, secondly, the danger that the Christians, thinking they have now a chance of doing so with impunity, may be tempted to retort on the Moslems the insults and petty injuries they have so long endured as au in ferior and despised race. Arrant cowards in face of the peril they have provoked, nothing is more probable than that they should be braggarts and oppressors when they feel themselves protected by men who can and will fight. The particulars of the convention, though doubtless known to you in England, have not reached ne, but we carry out the first troops that have been embarked from France. The Borysthbne was to have sailed for Syria on Sunday, August 5, but an hour before she was to start, and when they were getting up steam, a telegraphic despatch came to delay her departure until Monday morning, and at the same time an order was sent to the 16th Chasseure at Toulouse to proceed at once to Marseilles and embark for Bey rout. They arrived during the night, and soon after eight on Monday morning began to march on board. In less than two hours we had shipped 450 men, the colonel, and other officers, and the medical staff, with all their camp material, the re mainder of the regiment leaving by another boat, which was to start on Tuesday. The steamer being already full of merchandise, part had to be dis charged ; but although they succeeded in stowing the rifles and knapsacks in the hold, a mountainof luggage before and abaft the saloon, which is on deck, wofully limited the space available for the troops and emend-elms passengers. But the French soldier has notoriously a marvel lous tact at packing himself up cleverly ; I and somehow they all managed to stow themselves and to avoid confusion. Happily the weather has been favourable, saving a heavy squall of rain on Tuesday, which drenched every thing exposed to it, including a good many of the soldiers ' • but the sun came out, they hung their blankets up to dry, and it only appeared to afford matter for jokes, and of these there seems an inter minable source. Every little inconvenience, and the ingenious contrivances for counteracting it, affords material for fun, and we have two or three loueties on board, who are inexhaustible sources of amusement. Every evening ono or other gathers a little knot round him, and with songs, jokes, and drolleries, keeps up a constant gaiety. The officers and passengers gather on the roof of the saloon and form the boxes, the older soldiers mount on the pile of baggage immediately below us, and the others lie about the deck, representing the pit and gallery. The performance commences when we have dined and continues until about ten, during which time we are kept in almost continual laughter, the amusements being varied by some capital singing. The superior officers, those of the medical staff especially, are very agreeable, intelli gent men ; but the angular delusions prevalent among them as to Beyront and its capabilities, and as to the relative merith of Druses and Maronites, are rather amusing. They have taken for gospel the dreams of Lamartine and other poetisers of the East, and for literal facia the acoountsof the Drnse- Maronite war published in the French papers. But after the absurdities which have appeared in the leaders of one of your contemporaries, I can scarcely be surprised at the errors they fall into ; but as we happen to have on board two gentlemen intimately acquainted with the country and with the whole progress of the war, the French officers have learned many things which have somewhat astonished them, and which have shown them that they will have an extremely and difficult part to play in Spia. We have also three correspondents of the PWnch press on board, one of whom, a big, coarse looking man, with a red ribbon always exhibited, had clearly made up his mind to lay down the law on all matters, and with a voice as big as himself, the first time we met at breakfast, he began en lightening us all as to Syria and Syrian album Ignluckily, he started by announcing • personal acquaintance with the country and people, but soon I convinced us, who had been in Syria, that his knowledge was derived solely from books and newspapers. We lost no time in pouring a broad side of counter-statements into him, which silenced his fire for good and all, and put an end to what threatened to become a nuisance. I suspect from his wild notions about England and Christianity in the e-st, that he belongs to that solemn sort of Chari vari—the Gazette de France. We expect to meet at Beyrout other troops, which were to embark at Toulon on Monday, and a battalion of Zonaves who were to start from Algeria, so Beyrout will hardly know itself, and our arrival will create im mense excitement among the Christians, native and European. The letters from thence of the 19th state that the arrival of Fuad Pacha had put an end to the panics which seemed to have seized all classes since the massacres at Damascus, but busi ness was still very stagnant, a state of things which, however, must cease per force on the arrival of the French troops. The occupation will be a godsend for the traders of BeyrouL and Damascus, putting into circulation an amount of money which will go far to make up for the losses they may suffer from the ruin or bad faith of many of their debtors. Some of the French officers had embarked so hurriedly that they had not time to complete their outfits, and having been some what disabused as to their notions of Beyrout and its resources, they were naturally . desirous of ob taining the various small conveniences of which they stood in need at Malta. Au order however, had been given them that no one sho uldi go on shore at Malta in uniform, and it was very amusing to see the borrowing of plain clothes that took place, so as to enable almost all to avail themselves of the opportunity. The reason of this order I can not conceive ; some said it was to conceal the de parture of the expedition from the British authori ties, supposed to be adverse to it ; others thought it was to avoid the chances of any affront to the officers in the russinned state of hostile feeling existing among our troops towards the French army. One thing I can answer for—none of the officers visited the fortifications, confining their researches to St. John's Church, the armoury, and an hotel where they could breakfast. We were all fairly roasted out of Malta in about two hours, and glad to get on board the steamer, where at least we had shade and the sea breeze. I was glad to find that the Latin inscription on the guardhouse opposite the palace, a monument of bad taste, had escaped the notice of most of our fellow-passengers. What must foreigners think of the statement that "In 1815 the love of the Maltese and the unani mous voice of Europe gave the Maltese islands to great and invincible Britain " ! The sooner we scrape this out the better—the batteries of Valletta are much more to the purpose. The affection of the Maltese is just now prompting them to spread the report that we have fomented this Thsise-Maronite war, protecting and encouraging the Druses, with a view of destroying all forms of Ohristianity in the Lebanon, except Protestantism. They add, that we have refused to aid in putting the outbreak down, and pointed with exultation to the French crusaders we have on board. The de parture of our fleet for Syria counted for nothing— it was only to protect our commercial interests, and this is a specimen of the Roman catholic versions of our policy in Turkey. The destination of the French troops on arriving at Beyrout is not known, as it will depend on the instructions of General d'Hautpoul, who will probably be there as soon as we shall, but it is thought they will at once be directed on Damascus. BEYROUT, Aunuer 15. At Alexandria we found many of the inhabitants of Beyrout waiting to see the effect produced by the arrival of the French troops before daring to return, and a boat-load of the family of the Micah* came on board to visit the officers and urge them to avenge the Christians. They were lodged in one of the palaces of the Viceroy, and numbers of other refugees were housed by the Lazarists and others at Alexandria ; but there wai; an unmistalceable feeling, very like contempt, when the French wi thers saw these broad-shouldered young men, who had fled without striking a blow. At Jaffa, where we found the Victor Emmanuel, a tine two-decker, the sullen looks of the Moslems corresponded with their hints that the ships would not always be there ; and it appears that the officers in command of the little Turkish garrison had been at the head of a conspiracy to massacre the Christians ; as a punishment, it is said, that he is to go to Acre. Altogether, the arrival of the French troops and the foreign ships of war seems to have exasperated the lower class of Moslems, and very serious cow. plications may easily arise. On leaving Jaffa the Victor Emmanuel dipped her ens 4n, gave us some hearty cheers, and her band played " Partant pour la Syne "—a politeness which completely won the hearts of even the most anti-English of the officers on board, and elicited a apontaneous clap , ping of hands from the soldiers. The circumstance ' was very warmly alluded to in a speech made during a little fête on board, in honour of the Ifith August ; and it is to be ho pn.l and desired that the feeling may be maintained here at Beyrout, where we found a large fleet of men-of-war, and Moslems looking at them with anything but pleasant eyes. How the French troops have been received I must tell you hereafter, but it is said that at Damascus Fuad Pacha finds great difficulty in repressing the fanatical spirit existing there, in which case we may look for a movement of French troops in that direc tion, as soon as reinforcements arrive. THE STEPNEY MURDER. INQUE3T.-(THLS DAY.) The iuquest touching the death of Mary Emaley was resumed this morning by Mr. J. Humphreys, the coroner, at the Railway Tavern, Globe•road, nearly opposite the scene of the murder. There was a much fuller attend. ance of the general pablic than on the previous occasion, when it was confined to the witnesses, the police, the jury, and those who were otherwise officially connected with the inquiry Mr. Rose, the solicitor of the deceased under her marriage settlement, and Mr. Ratcliffe, the solicitor to the trustees under the late Mr. bailey's will, again attended to watch the proceedings. After the arrival of the coroner, upwards of half an hour was occupied in a private consultation between the coroner and the police who have charge of the case, before the court was opened. The jury having answered to their names, the coroner called Mrs. Caroline Barnes, of 17, Grove-road, who deposed as follows—l live at Lauriston Cottage, opposite the de. sessed's house. On Monday morning, the 13th of August, I saw deceased making her bed on the first floor. I saw nothing else remarkable during the day. The next morn. ing I saw some one moving paper-hangings, and concluded that it was Mrs. Ernsley. I did not observe who it was ; L took more notice of the paper than of the person. It was about twenty minutes to 10. Ido not know whether the person was • male or • female. was standing at the time by the scullery window in my own house, which commanded • view of the deceased's house. Mr. Emslefs bedroom window was not open. I saw the front room window of the top floor moved up by a hand. At the same time a observed a slight piece of paper with a red pattern hanging down outside tho window. I did not notice on that day and on the two following days whether or not that window ren.ainod open. It was not usual for the top window to be open. Ido not remember seeing any; one go into the house on Monday night or come out on Tuesday morning. By a juryman—l saw no one enter the house between Monday and Friday. Several people knocked at the door. W illiam Smith, a boy living in the service of Mr. Lind. sill, lineudraper, of Mile-end-road, deposed—l received directions from my master to call on Mrs. Emsley on 31on. day, the 13th inst. I did not call then, but I did call on Tuesday morning, at about half-past Bor 9 o'clock. I bad called before about three week.. previously. Mr. Lindsill told me Mrs.Emsley was in the habit of going out and leaving the house without anybody in it,as she lived alune,and said I must go at a particular time. I went with a bill. I knocked several times, but got no admission. I looked through the keyhole ou the ground floor, and I saw that the back-door was open, and 1 could see right into the garden. I had never boon inside the house. When I knocked I looked up to the window to see if anybody was there. 1 saw that the blind of the window over the door was drawn. I noticed that none of the windows were open. I heard nobody, and saw nobody. 1 again applied between 8 and 9in the even. ing. 1 knocked, but could not gain admission, and went hack to my master. Archibald Mann deposed—l live at No. 13, Globe. lane, and keep an apple-stall at the corner of Grove. road. I knew the deceased. I think I maw her on Monday evening, the 13th instant, between 6 and 7 o'clock, passing my stall I did not see her return. There was • man with her; Ido not know hie name, but I had previously seen them together; be worked for her. I saw him several times going to the house. He told me he was going there. On this occasion the man came back in about an hour afterwards with • truck having a stove in it ; he appeared to be going to her house. To the best of my recollection this was on the Monday pro. vious to her decease. I should know him again if I saw him ; in fact, I know him well. . . - . Mr. Richard Farnynough—l reside next door to the house of the deceased_ I knew her by sight very well, and have often spoken to her. I remember roe evening about the 13th August my dog barking at night. I heard it more than once. The first time, on Monday, 13th, from midnight till about 4 a.m. I did not get up that night, but I took notice of it notwithstanding, fur the dog does not usually bark so much. I beard no none or any thing to attract my attention beyond the barks ing of the dog. 'rho dog barked again on the following night (rein about the some hour to the same hour. I gut up on that occasion and opened the front window, and looked out. 1 saw nothing whatever to attract attention. The barking induoed me to put in security my own valuables, and place some money I had received from the Westminster Bank that duty in a trunk, which I placed under my bed. I had some conversation with the deceased about the sale of Ler paper-hangings. That was I should think about four or live days or a week before the murder. She offered the paper to me at prime cost, but I refused, telling her if I should want any I would pay hero per centage. I told her I had a house at Newport, in Shropshire, and I would write to my tenant to ask if he wanted his rooms papered. " How long has he been in the house r she asked. I replied eight or ten years. "Don't you write," she said, "for it will be in troducing a bad practice, and he will be wanting the house Tapered again." (A laugh.) I took her advice, and did not write, arid I felt much obliged to her, for the tenant has since papered the rooms at his own cost. (Laughter.) By the jury—The dog was not tied up, but running loose about the house. I have had some conversation with my servant, the girl B ri dget Macdonald, about the dog's Larking. She said she would not swear anything about the matter. I did not notice anybody knocking at the house on Tuesday. I heard some knocking at the door on Wednesday end Thursday. By the Coreeer—lt did not appear strange that the knockings were not answered, as 1 knew Mrs. Emshor used to go out early in the morning, and frequently stay out all day. My faintly consists only of myself, my wife, and the servant Macdonald. Nu one slept in the house that week. Mr. Rowland deposed—l was lately warrant officer at Wonthipttreet. I now live at 25, Barnsley•resid, one of the houses of the deceased. I collected her rents and did her repairs. She loft me at my own house about two o'clock on Monday, the 13th, when I paid her some money. Slue was not in the habit of admitting etmagers to her house unless they came about reptile. On the same day the deceased had a dispute with a man named Smith, a shoemaker. She spoke to me about it and appeared very excited, and told me that Smith had torn her basket. I went to Lim to try and settle the matter, and heard him threaten her. lie said, " serve the old bitch out." He was lame and had a crutch. The dispute was Acid arrears of rent. She said, " This man wanted to rob re ; I have got a note he." Nothing was said about a cheque. She said what I have just repeated in the hearing of a man named Fox, whom deceased was going to put in poression. I understood her to say that h e wanted t o ! Ai her of • 501. note. By a jwyman—l did not see the note. She had a balance to pay for paper, and my impression was that she was going to pay Nome of the money that day. By the Coroner—She bought the paper for shout 150 f. She paid that Wrier, I believe, that alio was going to pay with the note. The dispute tookce about haV•past, 1. It was not an unusual thing f or her to quarrel with her tenants, or for them to say something in reply. They abused her, but I never heard them threateu her. She has told me that they have threatened her, but 1 never heard them do so myself. The man who hail the quarrel with her lives nearly opposite my house. It woe on Friday afternoon that I tint beard she was not to be found. I generally saw bee about once a week. Mr. Joseph Biggs--I live at 25, Portlaod.road, Bethnal green. I ant a minister of the apostolic church, and have been so twenty years. I was on intimate terms with the deceased. I believe I was entirely in her couridence. wrote her letters for her and her receipts, and have done so for the last four years. I saw her frequently, BOHM • times twice a week. I used often to call on her. Almost every Sunday evening I called upon her. When she used to call et my louse I frequently saw SYRIA. BEYROUT, Ammer 22 trik By order of Fuad Pacha 70 individuals, con victed of hailing taken part in the late measacres, have been hung, and 110 soldiers shot. He has compelled 3,000 inhabitants of Damascus to enter the army. Four thousand five hundred soldiers of the French expedition have disembarked here. The steamer Gauges haat not yet arrived. FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, THUiIaDAT. It is stated that the Federal Council, having been solicited by the French government to send a deputation to Thonon to greet the Emperor, replied that there was no occasion to take such a step. The French government oontinually complains of ill-treatment of French subjects in awnlesslaud. It has been proved that up to the present time those complaints were mere calumnies. ALGERIA. MARSEILLES, Auceer 30. Lettere from Algiers state that 50,000 Arab horsemen from all the tribes of Algeria, and even from Tunis, are making preparations to be present at the fête to be given in honour of the Emperor, on which they will execute manmuvree on a grand scale. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, Tiruaatur. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw steamer Kangaroo, Captain Brooks,from New York on the 18th inst., has arrived here. She brings 753,000 doll', in specie. The Ham• mums had arrived out. General Walker and his followers were congre gating at Ruatan, it was believed for a descent on Costa Rica or Nicaragua. Much excitement prevailed in Texas relative to the abolition question. Conspiracies were in- Gremlin& COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The market wadi steady. Etchang• on Leaden, 1001, 110. e stock market opened dull, but improved at the close. New York Central were quoted 87j ; Erie, 28j ;, Minas, sq. Cotton was firm, with sales of 1 000 bales ; middling Upland, 101 c. Flour in moderate demand ; sales 10,000 hanels. The market was heavy, and most desertptioes were lower. Corn dull and lower. Wheat irregular. Pork firm. &agar and freights firmer, Haw 0111A118, Auourr 17.—The cotton market is firm. Wu GOO bales , on the bans of 10je. to I*. for middling. SOUTHAMPTON. AOOI3BT 30. The IJuited States male steamer Arago, Captain Lines, from New York on the 18th instant, has arrived off Cowes. She brings 75 passengers for Havre, 10 for Southampton, and 700,000 dols, in specie for Franco. Her news has been anticipated by the Kangaroo. THE BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, Scam 29. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Tyne, with the above mail, arrived hero this morning, and will leave for Southampton at noon. She has on board 34,0001 in specie. The political news from the Brazils is unimportant. Exchange on London at Rio was quoted 25j to ; on Paris, 365 to 370 ; on Hamburg. 710. The stock of coffee amounted to 56,000 bags. Good first was quoted 6,400 t 06,500 rein per arrobw. THE CAPE OP GOOD HOPE MAILS. PLYMOUTH, FilDaT. The Norman, Captain Borer, with the above wait arrived here thia morning. She left the Cape ea the 214, St. Heim on the 31st ultimo, and Ascension on the 4th. Het Makaty's ship Forte, Admiral Keppel, with Sir George Grey, had arrived out at the Cape oa the 4th ult. His Royal Highaew Priors Alfred had sot arrived. It was supposed the Karplas had broken down. The pmearatlona for his reception had been completed, bat it was feared that if he arrived ai late he would not he able to go through the colonial visiting programme, the stay of the prince being limited to October ZS. The Forte experieneod wale heavy gales off the Cape. AUSTRIA. The Trieste Gazette contains the following The Lloyd's steamer, Stadium, which arrived hero on the ZUNI from the Levant, met on the 20th, at ten in the mornim, to the southeast of Seaglio Venelioo, • large vessel diqdayinga gag of distress. She turned out to be the Gauge, of the French Menageries, of 2,000 tons burden, having on board Boo mon and 30 horses for the expedition of Syrta. Some accident in her machinery, which occurred on the 14th, had rendered the management of her impos sible, and for six days she ha been beating about. The Stadium towed her into the roadstead of Nevarico. The captain of the Oange wrote • letter of thanks to the com mander of the Stadium, and confided to him despatches and letters to post at Trieste. The Genre left Marseilles on the 10th, and touched at Malts on the 13th. The Emperor of Austria, in a letter to his brother, the Archduke, Governor of the Tyrol, orders the organisation of a sort of national guard in that province. To form this guard all Tyrolese aged from 18 to 32, are to tame themselves to be inscribed in the companies of riflemen which exist in the different communes. Their organisation, however, the letter says, is only to be provisional, and is to be submitted to the future provincial diet when it meets. The Cologne Gazette says, that since the return of the Count von ltechberg to Vienna, M. de Bala bine, the Miamian ambassador, has been the almost daily guest of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. kossur if IN ITALY. BMLLAGIO, LACO DI COMO, Am. 26. Reuter's telegram has doubtless ere this informed you of the unexpected arrival of Koesuth at this place. He came in by the steamer yesterday afternoon, at half-past 4 o'clock, from Calico, and took up his abode at the Hotel de la Grande Bretagne, on the shore of the lake, midway between Colico and Coma At half•past 7 o'clock the hotel and the adjacent gardens were illuminated, and bonfires were also lighted on the shore, which were quickly re sponded to by a number of similar beacons at several points along the long mountain =gee of the opposite side of the lake. The population of Bellagio is but small ; yet scarcely an inhabitant could have been absent from the spot when the Hungarian liberator had taken up his abode. The enthusiasm of the people was very great, and at each discharge of cannon their cries of " Viva Italia!" " Viva Ungheria!" " Viva Francia!" and though last, not least, " Viva Inghilterra!" were as loud and noisy as the most • vehement patriots could desire. The town baud, consisting cf nearly 40 musicians, assembled under the window of the hotel, and played several airs with much precision, the most popular of which seemed to be the Hungarian March ; after the performance of which Kossuth appeared at a window, and bowed several times to the populace, which act was the signed for renewed vociferation. At about 10 o'slock the crowd dispersed, and the lights of the hotel were slowly extinguished. By a singular coincidence Prince Albreet of Prussia arrived from Colico by the same steam boat in which Kozsuth had embarked, and proceeded at oats to his elegant villa opposite to Bellagio, from which he had been absent for two years at CUndans. !Saturday was also the birthday of the son of the Marquis d'Aseglio, in compliment to whom many of the villas were brilliantly illuminated along the shores of the lake, the effects of which, under a lovely Italian sky, with a bright shining moon, were most fairylike. At an early hour this morning the town band took a boat, and as they approached the Hotel de la Grande Bretagne serenaded Kossuth, who again appeared and acknowledged the oomph. ment offered to him. The movements of this remarkable man are at present unknown, but the general impression hare appears to be that ho is about to take some part in the war of liberation, than which nothing can be more popular in this pert of Italy, if the signs of enthusiasm everywhere apparent may be taken as genuine. The hatred against Austria, at all events, is most unmistakeable. The Princess Den ad e ff i s s taying at the Hotel Genazzini, which is, adja cent to Keasuth'e hotel. The fair Russian seemed to be much interested at Kessuth's reeeptice, and as soon as the serenade of thi s morning be appeared OR the belvedere of the hotel —Taus. We regret to state that Mr. Fuller, one of the party who unfortututtely jail their live. by the accident on Mont Blanc, upon the 17th instant, wee a brother of Protestor Puller, of sake. College, Old Aberdeen. Aberillarn Jennie. r