The Express. — London, England, 1855-09-14 00:00:00

etc Oxpiregso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. eeertiseiseets Weeded tee ' 4 Itse Expels; Leedom Ewan mar, emit be at the Mee, 10. Boeverlearest. by Tee *Welk ea the day of pobbettlea. HIGH WATZR AT LONDON DRIDOI. Tun Day —llanins. U. 41s. Altana" kb. sea. To.suasow—nousne. 4k. kis --Maims. 4k. Mo. • LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. So log as our information from Sebastopol is de vivid exclusively from telegraphic reports—Deese eerily lasoole In the extreme—it would be rash to eonjeet•re what may bathe next move of the Russian army there. Such indications, however, as the.tele graph does supply, seem to point to anything rather than a determined and protracted resistance. The preparations adverted to by General &meson, in his ' 1 despatch of the let instant, as seeming to imply an intention on the part of Prince Oottecnexorr to concentrate his force. between the sea and the entrenchments on the Mackenzie heights, might be interpreted as sigua of a resolution to defied his position on the north side of the harbour as long as possible. But the burning of the mall steamers—the only relics of the Russian Black Sea fleet—has the appearance of being a pre caution adopted, before commencing a retreat, to pre vent anything that can be destroyed from falling into the beads of the Allies. It is, indeed, natural to expect that Prince OORTCRAKOIF should be anxious to extricate himself from the Crimes as soon as he can. To the south he has a numerate, brave, and disciplined army in front of him ; another of lees force stationelot Enpatoria threatens his flank; and Yenikale is . - Wd by a garrison of the Allies. The steamers of the Allied fleets can in a very short space of time convey reinforcements to 'Eupato ris, or a corps d'armee to Yenitchi, opposite the termination of the spit of Arabst. In short, Prince OORTCHAKOIT is hemmed in—caught in • trap. The observations of the Allied Generals, the reports of deserters, letters from English officers prisoners of war in debeatopol—all answer in repre senting the Russian army as dispirited. Prince GORTCHAROWB soldier, do not appear to be in a mood to make heroic efforts, either to break through surrounding foes or to die at their posts to the last man. If this conclusion is correct, it would be the height of folly in the Allied Commanders to allow the Reagan army to mope from the Crimea. Its re treat ought to be rendered impossible by prompt movements on their pert, and no overtures for an armistice, or an evacuation of the Crimea by the Rus sians, ought to be listened to. The only terms granted to Prince Goarcsaxoer should be unconditional sur render. Even with nations of a higher civilisation, and more regard for the honourable observance of com pacts than the Remises, pledges that soldiers allowed to go free shall not serve for a limited time against those who set them at liberty, have rarely been faithfully kept. Every Russian soldier allowed on such conditions to quit the Crimea would be found under arms against us before a month had elapsed. The services of the Russian soldiers now in the Crimes, and the use of their arms and warlike stores, must be wrested from the CzAa. What course will be pursued by the Russian Go vernment under this "heavy blow and greet dis couragement," it is impossible to foresee; but the wisest policy of the Allies will be to assume that it will resist to the uttermost, and to act upon that assumption. It is true that some recent occurrences at St. Petersburg would seem to indicate that dismay and dissension have penetrated even into the Cabinet. The dismissal of the Minister of the Interior at such • crisis suggests the idea that counsels unpalatable to Majesty may have been offered by him, or that the blame of recent failures may have been thrown upon some misconduct on hie part. A Cabinet at odds within itself, when danger threatens from foreign foes, is always weak, and apt to be timid. Bat there can be no greater mistake than undervaluing the courage of an enemy or his powers of endurance. We know that the governing class in Russia is cor rupt and luxurious in the extreme, but such qualities an aye the source of a desperate courage. Man whose sole aim in existence is sensual enjoyment and uncontrolled power, and who are checked by no prin ciples of morality, are exactly the men to set all on the hazard, like desperate gamblers, when the objects of their existence are about to be wrested from them. Many such men there are in the circles of the Rosana mar, and in the hoar of danger and despondency their reckless daring will give them an ascendancy over more timid sad even more prudent characters. The probability is that every serve will be strained by the Russian Government to protract its resistance to the Western Powers. lbsieri the pesos Mlkk by means of faxgreas Wag NA maw against is Mew with the plain dimeistioa. it. New hdm time limits as all maw come. Uit is spared will immediately breed new troubles. The triumphs is*, (kings mast be followed up with promptitude asi awmgy. The Cult is delivered into the hands 11,1110 Allied Governments, and woe to them if they de set essonts jostle* on the spoiler. lENERAL SIR GEORGE BROWN ON THE CAPTURE OF SEBASTOPOL Tha dime" to General Sir George Brows, by his feilettureemes is Elgin, to which we refund the other day, ease off ea Tuesday with great last. Nearly 300 of the most inflesuld noblemen and gentlemen in the earth of Sestlesd were proud. Provost Gnat, the thief magistrate of the Evegh, performed the duties of chateau; and Omens& the eempany were His Highness the Priaei Edword of San Weimar, the Duke of Riehmosd, the Earl @Mane, Adminl Duff, Sir Alexander P. Cumming, Mr. Oasemin Braes, II P., the Hoe. T. C Bruer. the Hos. Lewis Great, Cassel Marshall, Captain Maitland, dte. After the usual preliminary toasts, the CHAIRMAN gun the health of Sir George Brown, in acknowledging which the gallant Gemmel said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I rime, I amen you, with great diffidence, because, positively, my friend here did appear to me to greatly over ra's mad emigrants my services. (' No, no.") I assure you, gentlemse, I have dose nothing more than carry oat the erases and isetrnedoss twinned to me by a meek abler sees; ea& if I had felled to do so, I should have failed Is ay duty. And more time that, I should have &Ueda my duty to the mat had and considerate friend I ever bad num earth. (C►un.) Lord Reglan—(epplause)— was always so kind sad eonsiderate to everybody and particularly so to me, be took me so much into his eosadence, and tneted me to such a way that I would have bees something warm than a coward if I had not done my best to obey hie commands. I think, however, ratlines, I may do better if I leave number one alone, gad believe that through me you wish to pay a compliment to the army at large. Osetlease, las truly say that their con►tany and endurance ban bees, and are above all pnise—(hear, and loud applause)—only, indeed, to be equalled by their conduct before the enemy, for British troops have sever behaved better than they have done in this sempaign. (Great applause.) I hope the news we have heard this evening of the fall of Sebastopol will prove of great importanes, and that we shall be able to do some titles decisive, for hitherto we ban bees dghting with one arm tied. We lan set bees able to mon the army because we depended upon our ships for every ounce of provi slime, ever mend of Wags, sad every truss of hay we mosumed. It was impossible to move the army to pass the Teheran& and march epos the Russians without Navin at least ninety thoesaad ass upon the plateau to sesta& our pecitios there. We maid not leave our ground and esionsess 'amoral there to go out and attack , them; they would not only have got sir goat, hot they would have obtained possession of peat. of ear position which we sever Gould have gazed from them. They would hen established themselves upon the high grouted fa the way they peeviouly established themselves open the low grimed, and the esseeqeence would have bees that we should have hoes besieged, instead of tembithi thane, is our own harbour. (Hear.) We have sow got passed= of the south side (then seems no reason to doubt)—we have sow got pomades of the south side of the hasboar—which is, in fast, all the town, and oar troops will be able with a mall forge to maintain the road to }fatheads's Farm. We eon MU the Teheran', and we shall be able to fight our enemy upon open ground, whereas before we could only fight them through the town. (Chasm) I may say that till now we wen tied by the leg. The dunks army, it must be remembered, has frequsully bees very superior is number to ours— mind you the Roseau have sot bees acting is regard to their army as we have been doing to ours, or as any other State in Europe has been doing ; for, while we have been Improving our civil institutions nudely, eg►d they have bees paying no attention to anything but their army. Russia is the most gigantic military power ever sass Nan earth. She has an artillery quelled. Jost let me siestas, that while we and the French brought up our i siege troths, erasistiog of the usual four-inch mortars, why, sir, these follows brought against us guns which threw into my own camp shot of no lees weight that eighty-six pounds, while the size of their shells also out-matehed ours. In this country of ours ' we have fostered the spirit of freedom of opinion; bar there is cue disadvantage attendant on this. You meet with people sometimes who think they know every thing. (" Hess, hear," sad laughter.) There area good many w►o fancy they know other people's business better , that t►emseives. (Rear, bur.) The cusequence of this feeling is, that we have had more great generals and &dal / rale at OS dubs sad cofee•honsee than we had in the army sad navy. (" Heat," and laughter.) It would be no very dithealt natter, however, to show that every movement . which has been made by that Eastern army there has brie good names for. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") The gallant general Lavin maimed the reasons which led to the various move cute of the army, said—l have now ' only to »peat my very grateful thanks for the honour you have sow demise—as hunt whirl I weld Dever forget, ' ens were I a younger man thee I am. (Loud cheers.) Amulet the other Masts was " The Allied Cieneras," in pepesing whisk The Doke Of RICIBIOND said—Gentlemen, I trust that pils will set esasider that I am intruding too moth ulna peersilime when I rise is obedience to the Provost le pews as wit toast. Gentleman, I was teased is Wel• Ilegesn's Selesel, and I foal It right to obey all lawful unmade; and though I am well aware that thee* are many gentlemen here who wined perform the task better than I can do, yet I an assure you there is no mat la Ude great empire who feels more deeply than I de. OM my present toast deserves the approbation and heartiest sheen you can give it. (Hear, hear.) During a lesser war, we were unfortunately opposed to the army el Frame; yet the utmost respect existed between the °Sean sod soldiers of the contending armies as air George Brown will agate with me in snag. (" Hear," from Sir George) In the day of battle we did oar duty to oar sonatry and sonnies, bet the moment the WIN was at ea sod, the °them sad soldiers mailed together le seek an extent, that at last the Deke of Wellington wse align! to forbid them massuicatlng. I say this to prove to yen that war ema be sordid as is rather a better way that the present war has been. ("Hear," and applause.) Te the °Seas in sesmand of Sebastopol--1 cannot call It a siege, for it is no siege adage you invest tie place it full—l give full credit. I think their dehisce of that fortress has he.. most plain. Is this war there has been—and I feu we shall still km of more—there has been s sad loos of life ; but Ido hope sad trust that the result of the Ros eau evacuating Sebastopol will lead to a pease which will be lasting. Let me my, however, that I for one will never cosiest to a peaked-up masers. (" Roar, hear," and applause.) I say that the allies have shed too much valuable blood is the Crimea to allow any diplomatist to saanoure a peace. (" Roar," and continued upkeep.) I say that we ought to obtain these gumtrees whir* shall mean to the civilised world the great haulage of peace; sad I eoesider that any man who would agree to a natehet up ONIOSTS will deserve the reprobation of his fellow mu. Gentlemen, I propose to you the Meet of the Allied Gourds, gad beg to assure you that the only regret whisk !have felt fa, that I have been c o old to than in the danger. (Rear.) Nothing would have given me greater pleasure thou to have essemasded a battallea la Sir George Brown's Divides ; sad I am sure that though Sir George might have got better Kdesee, be would, at all nests, have felt that he had set a mere malous one. I sew oak you to drink to "The health of Geserab Peilmier, amp. us, Marmon, and Omer Pasta ;" and I hope sad kith that as their eolotre are now gravies la Sebastopol, the Buries deg will en long be swept frees the CMIIIIII. (Loma applause.) The wet toast was "The health of the limb= if Par liament far theCantly and Burgh," acknowledged by Uttar Colosimo Magas, M.P. The iseetimg, whale was a very estleuiestle ten 1111111. a cot, termiaated abut 10 'Week. Remain the question how the Government is likely to be seconded or supported by the nation. To keep mint rush an event as the fall of Sebastopol is be yond the power even of a Russian Government. Already the trembling traders of St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the peasants throughout the Empire, are whispering in each other's ears the news of the evacuation of Sebastopol, and ex changing significant remarks on the impunity with which the Anglo-French fleet has scoured the Baltic, and destroyed the stores accumulated in Sweaborg. In all that part of the Empire inhabited by "the old Russian.," the people are filled with terror and oonsternation. Superstition reigns paramount among them ; they have been taught from their infancy to regard their Munoz as an earthly god, to believe that their nation was favoured and protected by Heaven, and that no mere human power could prevail against them. Recent events, by giving the lie to this food belief, will have inspired them with abject dismay. On the other hand, the news from the Crimea will be received with exultation throughout Western and Southern Russia, which are inhabited by " the White Raesiana" They hate the Muscovites with a deadly hatred ; and among themselves they do not call them Moms, but designate them by a word of almost the same sound, which implies " hungry dogs,"or "bandoge." " The White Remises," and many of the Cossack tribes, are always on the watch for an opportunity to rebel. The many favours conferred upon them—exemption from taxation, the con scription, and so forth—have not reconciled these vases to the domination of the Hummel% and the exigencies of the war having compelled the Government at St. Petersburg to suspend their privileges, a spirit of mutioy—breaking oat at intervals, and in various localities, into acts of insubordination—has come to pervade the pentane of the south and west. There is, therefore, cart men to believe that the detersdnaties of the CZAWe Government to maintain a is/sat stets& towards the Western Powers will fail for want of mean. The populations upon which it leans will break down beneath it like a fragile reed; the weapon upon which it has relied will crumble in its grasp. It will be left standing alone and impotent in the presence of its vista& I Sir Edward North Bazt° 2 6 B ut , bla presented ou tow the =Wisest sawed 6111. to the Wee Ram Chunk Die- The despotism which his for half a eatery Islet Tinos SW" PARIS, Flaua Moasure. The following despatch from General Pelimier fast arrived : " The French wounded amount to about 4,500. "Amongst them are 240 officers, received into the Widessis. "It Is believed that the killed will not exceed a third of this number." Our correspondent adds : "Credit Mobilier Bonds have been reduced one half." F, Szrr. 9. Aide-de•oamp General Bibikoff has been diemiaesd from the post of Minister of the Interior. Bergin' Stephanowitch Lanskoy, acting privy councillor and a member of the department of civil affairs, is ap pointed in his stead. &lON OVZ OWN s BERLIN, TZMISDAY, Barr. 18. Telegraphic account' from Bt. Petersburg Whew us that the Cm intends leaving the capital on the 13th inst. for Moscow and Warsaw. He will be attended by Count Nesselrode, and it is thought hers will arrange an interview with the King of Prussia. OPERATIONS IN THE SEA OF AZOFF. The iseatide Rune contains the following intelli genes from the Sea of Asoff: "Between the 16th and 18th of August, the enemy's eteam-Yeteele appeared before Chukchi, and cannonaded the town. "On the 18th seven steam-♦essels, accompanied by several floating batteries, arrived near the village of Ouskoni. One of the batteries entered the strait, but being warmly received by the fire of our cannon, she was compelled to retire. "On the 21st and 22nd, twelve of the enemy's boats which were in the bay of Genitohi fired upon the town and camp, but without doing any injury. "On the 23rd, six of the enemy's steam-vessels, which were in the bay, weighed anchor and sailed in the direction of Kertch." re n s tross, liblirgli dszte a roos lC , ar".— and an- LATEST FROM ABROAD. has arrayed party against party, -- 0 man, in sem * Its stns n f 421 DES , ORO _9RADPEttaina s blindness sal' eels I 4 L . , , , 4 0 is to mass wer wit 1 (a mums as aft' siu.sonseso Rit • . . genet ' 4 .. (snow owi t elwx oosanssoinuirr.) ' red no*, its rineorons resentment PARIS VIIIIIIAIr linamtre THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, THE CRIMEA. Le Nord says :—" The evacuation of the Crimea by the Russian army is talked of at Paris. We frankly admit that we have no official intelligence on this bead : we shall wait for facts. No doubt we shall soon know in a positive manner whether the movement executed by Prince Gortchakoff is the commencement of a retreat, Cr whether the ems mander-in-chief of the Russian forces has merely taken up a defensive position more impregnable than that which he has just left." The Moniteur of yesterday °entail's the following observations: " The inverted order in which the last despatches from the East were received, the necessarily laconic brevity of those despatchers, and the prodigious rapidity with which the events they announced smo. (*cried each other, gave rise to a feeling of uncer tainty and surprise, which perhaps prevented us from appreciating at the first moment the decisive importance of the victory just obtained by the allied armies. "The world hu not generally comprehended the fall extent of this triumph, laboriously prepared during a whole year, and gloriously achieved by one heroin and supreme effort. After such protracted ex pectation, the news of the Josue of the contest was so sudden and exciting, that it has not left men's minds is that state of calm which is requisite for clearly estimating the facts that have taken place and their full bearing. " These facts are immense, and maybe summed up in two words—the fall of Sebastopol, and the destruc tion of the Russian fleet" AUSTRIAN The Austrian Gasett*, in giving insertion to certain extracts from some of the London journals, eppeads the following expressions in regard to England : " England has been unanoceseful in making the Austrian army her 'mercenaries; and as the idea of a pacific solution has already commenced in France, the policy of England, alarmed thereat, holds up the re volutionary torch in order tospread hatred and discord and to finish the work which was fora time checked in 1848. England may decree laurels to Piedmont. Aus tria will be as little moved thereby as by the hollow phrase@ of the English journals. Austria, like the whole world, koows the value of British faith and England's friendship, and that she is ever ready to let slip her 'sad dogs upon those who refuse to hunt for her." THE FOREIGN LEGION. /, SZPT. 10. Her Majesty's ship Alban arrived yesterday from England for the _purpose of embarking another de tachment of the Foreign Legion, but as some oases of cholera had occurred on the passage—one of which was fatal—the coloneleoramandant has prudently resolved not to embark the men on board the Alban, but to send her back empty, and has written to Colonel Hodges at Hamburg to beg him to telegraph to the government to that .61*. Lest week 70 recruits arrived, and yesterday and to-day upwards of 100 more, of whom, however, 24 were rejected as unfit for the service. This is a very large proportion, but it refutes the calumnious asser tions of the German nawspepers that all recruits are accepted without any E.:animation. The Second Battalion is now complete, and enlist ing for the Second Rifle Carps has already com menced. The officers have arrived. A e7riesoioiesTie.iiiieUoWilieiise and fall of the tide are being made, the height of the water being re. corded every half-boar. This is with reference to the works neceissry for the contemplated harbear. GERMANY. lisrr. It. Tbe glorious myr of the fall of Sebastopol was rewired hers with groat enthusiasm and mind rejoicing. The gestations of all descriptions of funds, .bares, and !titer soiaritiss—nrith the exception of 'Rassiin steek—haye advanced, and large iisqlkeoi have bens made. It is glearally expend *at in eseesqesace of the fled MONO the Grime. est..- this; ware will be stamped in the Bettis been the was. of the assapaigra. It is esneldsead Use met tee bie to was a Woe at Quote& or level, sad new b tbe tims, whoa the enemy is wirers& by the, bee et hie owed istpregeabL eteasshobl ia ~. • . r.t ..XPRESS FROM PARIS. 1 --- \ 4l trami,orrn OWN 001111IPONDINT) P PARIS, TurmanAd livmerici. Magnificent weather, mush as has mot been sees in Paris since the Queen's departure. favourekthe ' Emperor's public visit to Notre Dame to-day, to offer up solemn thanks to Providence for the great triumph of the allied arms. The Archbishop of Perim, who, when the first news of the victory ar rived, was at his . milliii - orikirot, Tii -- t&" - eolith - of France, set out for Paris instantly, in order to offi• Gists in person at the great religious solemnity, which he anticipated would be ordered. His Grace, mem panted by hie Victim-General, the Metropolitan Chapter, the Cures of Paris, and the Canons of St. Denis, received the Emperor on his entry into the Cathedral of Notre Dams. As soon as his Majesty alighted, the Archbishop advanced to meet him, and addressed him very nearly in the following words : Son,—l hasten to receive your Majesty on the thresh hold of this august Map* which this day echoes the Reclamation' whist proclaim the glory of Foam. May our solemn thanks for the epleidid sasses' of our arms mount to the throne of the Most High. So mach heroism will soon be re wardrd. The great object propomd, whisk your Majesty, in sewed with your ltujestje allies, pusses with so math firmness and wisdom will mum be attained. A glorious and durable pesos will be established. Bat, Sire, that which adds to the nation's joy nadir ;mint airsarastanass is the thought that Reason, after preparing for you all these triumphs, is pre paring for yea over and above, domestic joys, whisk will be the more precious to your heart that they will else be the moues of public happiness. This—the first official intimation that the Em press is in a state which promises a direct heir to the throne—le the great news of the day. The To Dams wow exquisitely sung, and afterwards DOMIII Salem was repeated three times. The Em peror remained standing during the greater part of the ceremony. The cathedral was quite filled by persons provided with tickets. The Empress was not present. The Emperor was accompanied in his state carriage by Prince Jerome only. Abdel-Bader, who looked veil ill, and leant upon the arm of a French officer, was present, at tended by three Arab chiefs. The lifemiteur of yesterday contains the following decree, announced in the telegraphic message of our Pane correspondent : " Napoleon, by the grace of God and the will of the French people. " Taking into coosideration the eminent services rendered by General Folksier, especially in the Crimes, while oommanding our army in the East, we decree as follows: Aimable Jean Jacques reneger, general of division, is raised to the rank of a Marshal of France. " Dated St. Cloud, Sept. 12, 1855. " NAPOLEON." A painful sensation has been created by the news published in the Independence Beige of yesterday, that Colonel Gainer& one of the moat respectable members of the old republican party, formerly com mandant of the artillery of the National Gaud, and who, it may be remembered, was condemned by the High Court of Justice of Versailles, for taking part in the affair of Jane 14, 1849, and was afterwards par doned by the Emperor, without any solicitation on his part, was arrested a few days since at the funeral of Madame Domes, the widow of a representative who was killed in 1848. There is a report that he was arrested only on account of the costs of the trial to which he is liable jointly and severally with others, but the Preen aye it cannot guarantee the accuracy of this version, and indeed it is scarcely credible that such a melancholy occa sion u a funeral should have been selected for en forcing a claim of such a nature, which, for anything that appears, might have been settled long ago. Moreover, it is said that several other arrests among persons of the working clams who followed the hearse were made on the same day. There have been some rather serious disturbances in the departments of the Meuse and Vosges, in con sequence of the high price of corn. Two battalions of the 34th regiment of the line, which was on its march to Marseilles, were detached to pacify those districts. At Bar-le-Duo particularly, there wu considerable excitement. A traveller who has arrived in Paris , this morning reports that the soldiers of one of these' ' battalions were observed to have blackened fingers, and from this circumstance, and the disinclination shown by the officers to answer guidons, it was thought they had been firing. At St. Melo, complaints being made that the bakers did not bake bread enough to supply the population, the Mayor sent for them, and threatened to apply the law in its utmost severity if they did not bake a suffi cient quantity to meet the• demand. It is said that this threat had a beneficial effect, and that the shops are now well supplied. Flour rape 21r. at the Halle of Paris yesterday. At the Bonus, considerable surprise was expressed that General (now Marshal) Pillager's despatch, an nouncing that Sebastopol, instead of being totally destroyed, contains an immense quantity of stores and buildings, did not occasion any marked rise. The Rents was very calm throughout the day, and closed at 87fr. 800., with a ries of 10e. Credit Mehl lier was firmer than yesterday. It appears, on refer ence to the statutes of the Company, that its charter is granted for 99 years from Nov. 18, 1862. It would seem, therefore, that there is no foundation for what was universally said at the Bourse yester day, that the new obligations were invalid, be cause the Society itself would cease to exist in thirty years. However, the subscription which was originally announced to open today, has been postponed till to-morrow, in order, as it in said, to make some modification in the conditions of the issue of the obligations. The explanations must have been thought satisfactory, sines the shares closed firm with a rise of 25fr. Austrian railways fell 3fr. 76e. A good deal of business was done in the Sardinian rail ways, which rose rapidly from 610 to 623. French railways were rather weak, with but little change in quotations. " We learn from a good fauns," says the Cum's,. de Marseille, "that in ouesqleence of the success at Sebastopol, and the evacuation of the Russian fortifications, Marshal Valiant, Minister of War, has suspended the sending off of siege inaltirig and pro jectiles, which were being forwarded from this port for the Crimea." A detachment of the Cont-Gardes, fifteen in num.! her, arrived at Lyon on Tuesday, in grand uniform, in order to save as /wort to the King of Sardinia. It is thought that his Majesty will reside at Com piigne during some part of his visit. The squadron of the Cent-Gardes is, it is said, cheat to be augmented, eo as to form almost an ordi nary aquaria. Ae, however, it would be too dill •ealt at present to recruit all the men amongst non socumissioned Assn, as was done at the first dam tbey will be taken from amongst the best cavalry. The International Congress of Statistics assembied again yesterday, under the presidency of M. Rather, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. Papas "Uwe read on the statistics of England, the United, States, the Lanbardo-Venstian, and other pratiaess it Italy. Tuscany, Greece, and Portugal. TM peps se England was drawn up by Mr. Nubian/se. and -0 on the United States by Mr. IlLeassoli. A angtheeed dheassioa then took plies on the Map - t thee of a Nikes system all weights and mantras I.lk : • retails. The Congress evestaelly voted that that adipose of each a system was very 'desirable. The Mut Pub& o 4 Lyons states that two out of the five sisters of chadty, who l e ft th a t city for Sas sari, in Sardinia, have aied of cholera while minister ing to the affiiotedlls that town, when, it may be remembered, the scourge committed frightful ravages a few months ago. The Princess Trivulsio Belgiojoso, well known in the _ the took in thi events lialy in 1848 and 1849, has just arrived at Mont pellier from the East. The abasinittoe of the banquet to be offered to Prince Napoleon has held several sittings, and it is almost resolved that it will take place on the same day u the ball which the pity is to give to the exhibitors at the Hotel de Ville. A body of about 100 Russian prisoners arrived yesterday at Lyons from the depot of the Isle of Aix, on their way to Marseilles. They are there to be embarked for the Crimea, in order to be exchanged against a like number of French soldiers taken by the Russians. 14, 11155. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS. The Royal Brazilian Mail packet Great Western, Captain Bevis, arrived yesterday at Southampton with the South American mails. Her dates of sail ing are—Buena Ayres, August 2 ; Moote Video, 6; Rio de Janeiro, 14; Bahia, 18 ; Pernambuco, 21; St. Vincent, 30; Teneriffe. Sept. 4; Madeira, 6; Lisbon, 9. _ _ _ The Great Western brings 98 passengers, among whom are—Mr. Hutton and lady, Mr. Klioglohefftr and family, Mr. Banto, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Coelho, Dr. Martins and family, Rev. F. Lowe and lady, Mr. and Miss Buica, Mr. Gallop and family, Messrs. Lewis, Rev. Mr. Fletcher, and Mr. Salmon. The freight on board consists of diamonds of the value of 30,0001., and specie 6,2001.; ipeoacuanha, 56 serous; tapioca, 630 barrels; cochineal, 115 germs; coffee, 30 bags; onions, 14 barrels; fruit, 14 cases; sundries, 130 packages. No news of importance from Brazil. Cholera exists at Bahia, but is at present chiefly contintd to the black population. The Great Western has been in quarantine at every port since leaving Bahia. The following were the stations at which the ships of her Majesty were seen or left :—River Plate : Her Majesty's ships Star and Sharpshooter, August 2. Rio Janeiro : Her Majesty's ships Indefatigable, Madagascar, and Spy, August 14. Pernambuco: Her Majesty's ship Rifleman, August 21. Off Ma deira, en route to the Pacific, her Majesty's ship Alarm, Sept. 5. Off Ushant, Sept. 12, her Majesty's ship St. Oeorge,l2o, towed by a screw steamer stand ing to the southward. The movements of the West India steam packets are as bellows :—Camilla, sailed from Rio for River Plate August 12; Tay, at St. Vincent, Cape Verdi, en route to Brazil, August 22. Peninsular and Oriental steamer Tagus lett Lisbon Sept. 9, at 8 a.m., for Southampton. Ships observed or spoken with during the voyage.— Lat. 8 50. long. 35, the ship Statesman, 43 days from London to Melbourne, August 20. The Washington Irving, at Pernambuoo, August 21. BRAZIL Our Rio correspondent writes: RIO, AtIGIST 14. The first stone of the great railway of Pedro IL was laid by the Emperor on Sanday last. It appears that the Brazil•Paragnayan question is not yet satisfactorily settled, and some believe that war will shortly be declared between the two coun tries. A Paraguay newspaper says that the object of the Imperial government is to obtain the annexation of Paraguay, but that the French government would not allow it for a single moment. We have had a few cases of cholera in Rio, but the disease does not seem likely to make great progress. After the sailing of the last packet our coffee market declined hem 200 to 250 eels, and immense purchases were made. A reaction took place, and at the close of the month the former value of the article was fully regained. The total sales amounted to 235,000 bags, of which 130,000 were for America. This month so far business has been on a much smaller scale, about 30,000 bags only since the Ist: of those 18,000 are for the United States. Notwithstanding that the news both from Europe and America was unfavourable, good qualities still hold their value, and being very scarce at market, will probably experience no decline. Oar stock is about 130,000 bags. Exchange transactions have been large at the rates, 271 d. to 271 d. on London, 350 to 300 on France, and 855 to 660 on Hamburg. We estimate the united business at 630,0001. on England, 120,000 francs on France, and 600,000 m.b. oa Hamburg. Discounts rule at 9 to 91 per cent. Money rather tight. In other markets there is no feature of interest. In port :—English vessels of war—lndefatigable, Spy; American—Bainbridge, I. Lane, Savannah ; French—Poarsuivant. RIO DE JANEIRO, AUGUST 14. Exchange on Landon, 271 to 271; Hamburg, 665 to 660; I Franee, 350 to 360. C.ffee—Bnperior, 4,700 to 4,800 ; good. first, 4,300 to 4 400 ; ordinary, first, 4.000 to 4.100. Bales since the Ist, 30,000 bogs. Cltork this day, 130,000 bogs. Freights—London, 40s. to 455. • Channel, 60e. to 655.; Antwerp, 655. to 70s. ; United Sta tes, 700. to 85e. BUENOS AYRES. Commercial affairs are thus treated in the Packet's monthly retrospect: 0 In our lest we exhausted the catalogue of doleful tense in the pentuion that our commercial difficulties had reached their climax. We spoke of • dull and limited demand, low prices, uncertain collection', and dubious prospects for the future. As the prolongation of an evil is a necessary aggravation of it, we must now add that all these are felt with increased and increasing intensity. The oonepiraay and ether political events developed in the latter days of Jane and the beginning of July, brought the local demand to • dead fir ; and it is not •in a week or two that commercial men recover from the stupor of such occarrenees. Of itself July is one of oar dullest 1 business mouths, and on this oCcasies it approaches as neatly as may be to a perfect blank. During the last days there were some inquiries for the interior provinces ; bat the amount effected is really insignifleant. .. The arrivals, in a certain acceptation, have been very moderate ; bat as things at present go, we repeat that any addition to the existing stockists a positive evil, both to the importer and the retail dealer. The deposit stores, mainly hers, but at Montevideo, the Roark), and elsewhere, ere crowded with goods, that must in general be cleared off to avoid accumulated expenses, and prevent their deterioration ; end whilst fresh stooks mut easioneMs this accidental bat formidable competition, they aggravate the very evil to which they ere exposed. The fact of enamel?' ovirtrading is established beyond all question or controversy ; and parties suet prepare to pay the penalty Stith a goOd vase, aid extricate themselves from the dilemma by a course of rigid abstinence. As the dimmers may be teemed to repletion, we must allow the dipoles organs an opportunity of reoover ing their healthy action." . . . PORTUGAL. LISBON, Serr. S. A quantity of lead, about 32,000 lbs., from the Spa nish mines of Almeria, has been entered for ship ment to Hamburg by the Swedish ship, Joanna. The transaction appears indirect, and little doubt is enter tained that the ultimate destination of the metal is the Russian frontier. This is the first time that Spa nish lead his been shipped . through this chancel. Doubtless the facilities offering for conveyance have brought it here, and probably the UaMo will be foand lucrative, aid go on increasing. The shippers —who are Ger mans—having misgivings for the safety of the vessel, saw the British and Swedish Minis ters, who thought that under existing circumstances the ship ran no risk of capture. Still it is rope seated as doubtful whether the vessel takes the lead, as they evidently have a suspicion that la some way or other there is danger. This, however say merely be a rem thrown out to diem stAntice. The Portuguese government appear to verify the adage of the great Wellington, who said that those who were not for him were against him. The last amounts from Madeira represent the vine crop as a nullity. Little sugar will be made there this year. Although attention hes been directed to its culture, it has been found more profitable at pre sent to convert the juice into rum. The cholera still prevails to a great extent in th e A t r is ve v a ;ill, beyond doubt, be a disastrous year foe the wine growers; the loss will be great and gene. real, but no estimate as to its extent can be formed until the vintage, which will be unusually late. The great heats have now ceased, and the peat eight days have been characterised by heavy rains and thunderstorms. The steamer Bretagne has arrived from Nantes, and the screw steamer Cloths from LiverpooL The screw steamer Rattler sailed for Liverpool on the Btb. The Tagus arrivedat Lisbon on the 6th inst. She left for Southampton this morning at 7 a.m., but took no mail, se this steamer conveys it. The steamer Don Pedro IL sailed for Brasil c the 6th lost. The steam tog Comanter left for the East on Ate 7th inst. _ _ _ The steamer Donna Maria IL hu jut arrived from Brasil: her data are, however, anticipated by tbs Great Western. ARRIVAL OF THE TAGUS. (111011 OITA OWN CORRISPONDINT.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY Noma's. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam, packet Togas, Captain John Weeks, Admiralty Aga* Lient. Charlatan, R.N., arrived with the Peninsular mails. Her dates are—Gibraltar, Sept. 4; Cadiz, 5i Lisbon, 9 ; Oporto, 10 ; Vigo, 10. The Tagus brings 67 passengers. Her cargo ort sista of 18 packages of specie, value 5,7751. ' 164 boxes lemons, 54 boxes grapes, 24 boxes figs, pg boxes tomatoes, 2 ivory, 45 bails begets, and 60 packages sundries. Preparations were making on board several hulks off Black Horse-square to display fireworks on $ grand scale on the night of the coronation. Movements of Her Majesty's ship.—Her Majesty% ships Horatio and Olatton at Vigo on the 3let - of August. Her Majesty's ships Prometheus, Riau menthes and Meteor at Gibraltar on the 4th of September. Bailed—transport Thames from Gibraltar with a sailing transport in tow. At Lisbon, Horatio and Glattoo, which sailed on the 7th of September. September 12. Passed an English screw line-of-battle ship steering S.W. Movements of Foreign ships of war.—Ontsids Lisbon, met a French Imperial steamer and two gunboats. At Cadiz, the French Imperial steamer Newton on the sth of September. At Gibraltsr, arrived, a French Imperial screw brig. At Lobo; the second Portuguese squadron ; and arrived, the French Imperial steamer Newton on the 9th. Movements of the Oriental Company's Packeta.-.. Peninsular and Oriental packet Iberia, at Vigo, at the 31st of August; Peninsular and Oriental packet Madrid, at Vigo, on the 10th, sailing for Lisbon, &c. Lisbon Exchanges, for three months, are quoted this packet at 544 on London • Paris, 530; Amster dam, 43 ; Hamburg, 484; and Genoa, 528. A trifle . had been negotiated on London at 544, money eon tinning scarce, and bills over at 544. In other piss little had been done. Exchatigesajiiiraltar were quoted on England for bills at 90 days, 614 to Ma; Paris, Air. 30c.i Spanish pillared dollars, 71 per cent. premium. TERRIFIC RAILWAY ACCIDENT DI AMERICA. TWENTY-THREE PERSONS KILLED, AZI.. 4 SEVENTY WOUNDED. Another terrible accident, says the New Yeti Daily Times, pf the 30th alt., occurred on the Carotin sad Amboy Railroad, between this city and Philadelphia, as noon yesterday, resulting, as nearly as we are yet able to' ascertain, in the death of twenty-three persons, and swim injury to some seventy others. The particulars are as follows: The morning mail train left Philadelphia at 10 a.m., and reached Burlington (twenty miles) a few minutes &heed of time—say a quarter of an hour after 11 o'clock. There were six passenger cars in the train. By the rules of the railroad company, the train first arriving at Burlington, • which is the place for the meeting of the trains, is required to wait ten minutes, and if the other train does not afire then, the first is entitled to the road; both trains to ru g looking for each other. There it but a tingle track. The up-train waited, according to orders, for the trsia_ from New York, and then came on. When about three miles this side of Burlington the trains met, saw each other in season to reverse, reversed rapidly, and the train whit& bad left Burlington a few minutes before ran back for tree_ miles, until it had reached a trees road, half a mile this side: of Burlington. At this point a waggon with two hones, driven by Dr. Hannegan, an old physician, residing just oat of Barlinsteac was craning the track as the train backed. The Waded struck the horses, killing them instantly, and this sewed . that car to be thrown from the track, while those in Mei ; piled up on top of it. Four out of the six cars were timed off the meek in this manner, and three of them were stiselfr destroyed. They were all well filled with passengers, need, • all of whom were iejnred more or ler seriously. We have received the following list of the killed, by tell. graph, as made out at a late hour last night in Buzliegtos, by persons in charge of the bodies : Catharine Biplesr, John Dallam, of Baltimore, Md. ; D. F. Haywood, Thema J. Meredith, of Baltimore, Md. ; Mrs. Margaret Prose" of Salem, N. J. (wife of Rev. Mr. Prescott) ;G. W. Ridge. . way, Mrs. C. M. Barclay (wife of Clement C. Bartley), of Philadelphia ; a female (name unknown), Edward C. Bacon, Wilson Kent, Alexander Kelly, M. J. Songlike, Martin Connell, of Livingston, Del. ; Jacob Howard, 51 Lebanon, Tenn. ; Harry Rush, of Georgetown College; ' Major Boyce (U. S. Navy, on the Coast Survey serried ; Mrs. Boyce, wife of 'shove ; James Lincoln, of Mort(' , Mills, Md. ; Charles Bottom, of Trenton, N. J. ; Mr. Hair phreye, of Peoria, 111., going to Boston ; Baron de St, Andre, French Consul at Philadelphia ; Catharine Brown (coloured); Master Ingersoll, son of Lieutenant Harry Ire gersoll, of Philadelphia, died at Bristol. Ot the elsvenkUlsd, first named, nearly all belocged to Philadelphia. Our lad despatch says that seventy are wounded. We have the following names:—Hon. Wm. B. McClsy, el-member d Congress, from New Yolk, seriously; two daughtem 51 Major Boyce, U.S., Coast Survey ; Mr. Fisk, of Conon& cut; John F. Gillespie, of Notches, Miss, seriously; Mr. John B. Gillespie, wife of the above,striously ; Mrs. Rl* t i Charlsstowo, Va.; Mr. S. Back, of Pittsburg; John Kelly, of Pittsburg, badly ; Mr. Kent, of Mimissippf; ' Samuel Lamb, of Ohio; Hon. William Whelan, of the Naval Bureau, Washiegton ; Com. Joseph M. Smith, " U.S.N. ; Spencer McCorkle, of US. Coast Survey; Mn. Hasten, of Jersey City ; Dennis 0. Kane, District of Co lumbia; f. A. Hughes, of Shankland's.corners ; Chaska W. Ogdenburgh, of Philadelphia. A brakeman, known se " Yankee," had his collar-bone broken. The names of t►e wounded did not reach us in full bet night. The women and children on board of the train appose nearly all to have escaped. We have but four or lire females reported arum, the dead. The groom of the wounded in the rooms of the hotel at Burlington are described as awful. One an case injured and his agony was so intense that he could sell remain quiet, but persisted in throwing himself up and down on the settee, groaning horribly. SHROPSHIRE UNIoN RAlLifiii.—Yetwrday the Ralf yearly meeting of this company wu held at tie 7 Lies Hotel, Shrewsbury; the Earl of Pawls, the 111116 P •Q man of On directors, presided. The report of the direarrHS w called the attention of the shareholders to the feet that the , Shropshire Union deficiency, chargeable this half year IS ; 4 the London and North Writers Company, was maul amount then on any previous occasion since the low OM t , tato °pastier. The London an' North Western Compaq i having declared a dividend at the rats of 41. 16s. per cam w per annum for the half-year ending June 30, 1865, Oft shareholders is this oompany would be entitled to a dividssj at the rate of 21 . 7. ed. per cent. per annum in reseed t the same period. Tea statement of account' Mowed thie maul earnings to be 61,9321. 19s. 6d., leo tbsrefvut 44,8821. 19s. 10d., leaving • net easel revenue la d 13.0491. 19s. 7d. The railway earnings amount 20.8361. 17s. ed., end deducting 16,173/. 138.1141. for chugs. them is • net railway revenue of 5,6621. 36. 7d. Total neli railway and canal means, 18,7121. 3a. 2d. The noble w i re 4 . . t man briefly moved the adoption of the report, which accorded by Mr. Henry Toots], and curled Isom. die. o W •• was also the dividend imposed.