The Express. — London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

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HIGH Irma AT =DON TI MM TO D&T —Unruh% EL II ...._ u SMM. 2,ZOLltow—llurulag, I. 4.....A5au5. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14. A APICTATOR of that gorgeous pageant which attends the succession of some citizen of credit and renown to the immortal throne of wealth and re sp,ttability in this famous London town could hanUy fail to notite, at least, two odd incongruities which are nut reconcileable with the great his torical traditions of the show—in fact, that there was some nustate about the Watermen and the Warriors. The jolly young fresh-watermen looked as if they were the boys that could fight, while the Warriors in their complete steel, mounted on Mr. Mniavitzs's piebald hippogriffa, looked wonder fully mild and toylike. They lurched and rolled in the saddle, and laboured heavily under their top hamper ; they seemed to be perpetually striving to mount over imaginary seas, of which they had evidently shipped a great many, till it was only a question of whether they would go down by the bead or the stern ; but that they must come to grid somehow before they got through the chops of Temple-bar on the bouieward voyage, no one could doubt who witnessed the behaviour of these dummy warriors. So much for this Museum type of an impregnable city. The prowess of these men of war may be great, and certainly their panoply is • perfect miracle of metal work ; bet without the least de sire to pry into the unknowable, it was impossible to shut out the speculation as to what would be the effect of • charge by those rgile centaurs of the 16th Lancers who pranced alongside these ponderous iron sided champions. Would not the encounter be like one so admirably described by our great novelist, between the Knight of the Leo pard on his iron-clad heavy charger, and 8 ALLDIN on his Beet Arab! Or, to Mender the problem to another arena, would it not resemble the match that all the world are speculating upon just now, but which we should be very sorry to see come off, between the fast frigates and the modern (noires and Black Princes! As far as we can see at present, even supposing that the ninths:raid., and indestructible qualities were attained, which we imagine the most sanguine advocates of the iron system would not assert to be the ease, the prospect is more favourable to ad vance on the side of gunnery than on that of armour. At any rate, with regard to iron ship* and their armour, as we have already endeavoured to show, thu best model on which to built them has sot yet been discovered. The Admiralty and their naval architect, if rumour be correct, have come to this conclusion also, for they have sus pended the commencement of the three iron plated ships decided upon, and have not entered into the contracts offered by private builders to construct two of these vessels. In the meantime we shall Imps to be doing some service in following up the subject and offering some further points for consideration before the new system is implicitly adoP6l4- 1 3 uttinq snid.• the questions of speed and sea wort/tine's, hew would these iron ships fare in real serve.* 1 We have been all along led to believe that the sides of these vessels were entirely pro tected froui shot and shell—partially at least from shot, and wholly from ai•ell. Now this is not the fact. The Warrior is about 400 feet long, but out of this only 214 feet in length of her sides are protected by the armour, the rest being only shell proof. It is true that the armour covers, always remembering to except the ports, the whole of the fighting deck ; the whole of the waist of the .hip being protected by the heavy armour, while the bows and a considerable part of her quarter and stern are vulnerable. This arrangement is admitted to be indispenkable to the seagoing properties of the ship. If a ship carried the weighty armour plates at her bows and quarter de would be in the condition of a horse laden on his head and his tr.il , and her movements would precisely resemble the action of the famous Rockingham breed. Here then we have to sacrifice impregnability to seaworthiness. But we shall be told that these parts of the ship are formed in iron waterl tight compartments ; and not only so, but sepa rated from the main deck and the rest of the ship by iron bulkheads of strong plate iron. Granted all this, we must suggest what would be the effect of a concentrated broadside of round shot followed by a few shells upon the quarter and bows of the Warrior. We can Nee nothing to prevent the ship being completely crippled in this way. Her tremendously heavy 'tempest, weighing 42 tons, would te.tr itself away in consequence of the weakening of its attachments, the screw which works through it would be hampered, and if the Tinsel did not go down, we should expect she would be effectually waterlogged, especially if similar leeitile attentions had been bestowed upon her 1,0%4. lu this condition what signifies the armour 1 The poor Warrior would be in no better plight than the Lord Mayor's champion at the mercy of a Lancer. With all his motor power gone, there he 'night stand and hurl his terrible 1114C0 after his unable antagonist, but he would be altogether put out of the fight. " Whatever you do, keep out the ■hells," say the old sailors ; but the uew system will not do this. One shot out of every right goes into a ship in action, through the porta ; this inconve -11/00C0 it is not proposed to someday, but we can not suppose it is intended to mumbler the iron drips protected from 'hells falling oil their unit. deck. The decks of the Warrior are formed of plates tbice-eightlis Umiak, upon which the planks are laid, th.• whole resting on iron beams. In tiriug, of course, few shells would eoAie flu ough, but decks of this construction would nut he ! .f against the heavy shot and shell cer tain to b • nat.l in the next sea fight, especially wh.•n sv. hLS V. n•.w the• r.ceuracy attr.iiied that skilful suuuele would find small difficulty iu 9 Y. pitching shells at long range welkin grak that measures some 380 feet by 50. Against ellsirind of attack it would seem that the shield or cupola protection is the only one at present contemplated, in the plan of Commander CoLca, and this is an additional reason for 'consulting all the authorities, both in gunnery and iron shipbuilding, before laying down new ships on the model of the Warrior. THE THE BRITISH EMBASSY AT TURIN. There u no foundation for the report, published by the Times, that it is intended to remove Sir James Hudson from Turin. Cbt (Court. WINDSOR CANTLE, Nov. 13. Her Majesty's dinner party yesterday included Prince Alfred, Princes Alice, the Hereditary Prince and Princese of Holstein Augurtenbourg, the Lady in Waiting to the Hereditary Princes, Lady Caroline Harrington, Major- General the Hoe. C. Grey, and Major Cowell, It E. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards played during dinner, and her Majesty's private band afterwards per. formed in the drawing•room. The Queen, accompanied by Princes Alice, walked sad drove in the Home Park this morning. The Prim oCoomort, accompanied by Prince Alfred and the Hereditary Prince of Holstein Augustenboarg, went out shooting, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. Prince Arthur rode cad on horseback yeeterday afternoon, attended by Major Elphinsume. The Countess of C.ledoo has exceeded Lady Macdonald as lady in steams to her Majesty. Lord Harris and Lieutenaat•Genrr have succeeded Lord Cremoroe and Sir Henry Bretinek Oavemlish u lord sod groom m waiting. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office from the Governor of New Zealand yesterday. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commimioner of the lonian lilac& A Cabinet Council was held the official residence of the First Lord of the in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, Leal John Russell, the Right Hon. Sidney Her bert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset., the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. THE PRINCE OP MLLES -4- PLYMOUTH, WIDYUD►T, 7 A.Y. Two or three strange ships arrived in the Sound early this morning, supposed to be the Hem Ariadne, and Flying Fish.—(Second edition of Times.) The following correspondenee lies taken phew : " Board of Trade (and Achniraltv), Meteorological " Department, Nov. 13, " Sir,—May I ask you to giro your readers the benefit of Oaptaln Maury's awoke respecting the detention of the royal squadron, by publisLuar the following letter.-1 asa, ke. Roar. The:Bor.^ • Small's Hotel, Albensarieetreet, Nov. 13, 1800. --- " Ify dear Admiral,—l sailed from New York in the Bremen steamer New York on the 27th alt., and pat into Plymouth t yesterday f ni or coa of the ls. I and some mrprim en- L'l7the avil with .71... of Wales and suite ea board. royal I do squadron, not think there is the least came of aseadiniss owing to this cir esmatance, for the weather has been such as to reader it simply impossible for a vowel with only aa anediszy steam power, se I understand the Hero has, to make soy headway at all. We met these easterly winds tem days ago, and when we were sot half. way scram, with a high barometer and a mottled dry, they blew strong cud dandily, not furiously. But they raised • high sot, such that cuirass, even with auxiliary steam, meld not do more against than simply " hold its own." Therefore, while we may look fur the arrival of the royal squadron every day, I should not he at all surprised if it did not arrive as long as these strong easterly winds last, and even for some days afterwards, for I doubt whether the squadron, supposing it has not run down to the southward for • pat or file better weather, is much nearer these shone than it was on the day it smouldered these easterly winds with heavy head saw— Yours truly,(Nirloa) Y. F. MACSY, U.S. Navy. Bear-Admiral Fitzroy. The following telegram wee received Let sight from Plymouth : "PLYMOUTH, TURRDAY. " The (Mae o, frigate, has bora odlorred, mama, and fitted out today, sad will preasetly proseed to the west ward, to look out for the Prime d Wales." Their Serene Highnemaes the Hereditary Prince sad Prince-ea of Holaleia-dearuseaabourg have arrived at Remade's Hotel, from Framer& His Elmlleuey the Ambassador of Prawn aid the Countess de Pervigey return to Albert Gate House, to day, frva. Tunbridge Wells. His Exoellency the Netherlands Miuister is ex pected In town to-day from Holland. - The Earl of Denbigh and the Ladies Fei'ding Yore rsaaread to Nswitham Padducka from visiting Viscount sad Vissocaters ?Ailing, in Wales, sad Mr. and Mrs. Toilsomelna at Pedeorton Castle, Cheshire. • Th. Emil and Countess of Yarborough awl Lady Mos arrived in Arlington-West yesterday, from pawing • few winks at Briiihtoo. The Earl of Uxbridge has taken a house in Upper Grosvenor-street, late the residence of Yr. Clueing barn., of Lauc,baw. The Earl Bathurst has arrived in town from Oakley Park, Gloucestenhire. The Countess Dowager of Lichfield and lady Oinnadohina Anson have arrived In Hill-ekM from • tour of visite. Sir Alex►nder and Lady Arabella Bannerman purpose to leave town tn a few days for Genoa, intending to go to s tho Itediterranesain Sir Alexander's yacht. - Miss de Rothschild arrived at Kingston House on Monday from visiting Sir Anthony and Lady da Roth schild, at Aston Clinton. Ou one face of the pedestal of the Guards Memo rial erections the following inscription : " To Shoo; who foil By Their Comrades." " Does this mean," writes a oorrespoodeat, " that the de ceased fell by the hands of their comrades, or by the weapons al their comrades, or by the aide of their comrades!" The Dublin papers teem with letter. denouncing t►e inefficiency of the means possessed by Dublin for extin guishing fires, and the want et anything lrlee organinition that exists at such catastrophes. It seems incredilde, but it is nevertheless true,that there is not a single firesseape is t►e city, although nearly every recent 6re has painfully illustrated the culpability of the authorities in not providing them. The auzetta di Turin.) pays • just tribute to Mir James }Judaic, Ler Majesty's minister at Ttuie, as the beet (mud Italy Las bad arnoopt European diptimaatiele. " We owe it to his excellency," says the tisadla, " that many prejudices, many enormous appreciations, have been luipmed end reduced to their real value in the cabinet of JARMO% sad thus truth Lea triumphed over the calum• ales d ear enemies." LOINDON Riot BRIOADS BALL AT Till GICILDHALLi—The committee for cooductiog the ball is abed al the futtsk of the Load.. Ritle Voluoteer Brigade rut yesterday afterworm at fluildhall, and it wu staled already surly !AO mboheins ticketa had beau disposed al. The reguliritons for carriage. petting down sad taking up the corrimmy attealing the WI have just been published ander . the Authority of Mr. D. W. ilermey, the police commis. limier. They are so follows -" All earners aosveying company to the ball will approsch the liui 11 through Biajr.street only, and after setting down will gam through CuAllnill.huildinp sad Buinghalletreet. Carriages ar eh-hi; at night to take up will be placed in idegte reek on th e vo st stile of King.street, end north ride of Oliespeido, horse,' hr.', toward,' the hall. Nu caniao will he allowed io has.. its place until called Li take up, whet: it will appoooli the hall through King.street only. Ic. , carrlagotas i.,,ttrol t.. to 1it.1114 in It I. the,a,, e rrlw •...1 that the .•on,vany wishing to depart I. in teadi. Wee to the lobby Ware utewltug for their curiars." THE EX-KING OF NAPLES AT 0/bITA. The latest news from Gaeta is eontained in the Meanger du Midi of linutPdiet ci ltstertlah which,as we learn by a telegram, states that Francis H. obstinately repudiates all the advice which urges him to give up the contest, and relying upon Gene ral Bosco, whose parole expired yesterday, and an army of 10,000 men which he yet has ; means to prolong a hopeless residence. It is moreover said that a Prussian general has arrived at Gaeta on a mission. THE SIEGE OF GAETA. NAPLNA Nov. L. The official journal of Naples contains the ap pointment of Garibaldi u general of the army. The siege works before Gaeta are actively con tinued. It is still hoped to secure the submission of Gaeta without any serious fight ; but in case the garrison do not capitulate the bombardment will oommenoe in a few days. NAPLES, Nov. 13. A Lieutenancy Council has been instituted. It is composed as follow■ : Vintimiglia, Interior ; Pisanelli, Justice ; Scialoja, Finance ; Poerio, Public Instruction ; D'Afllitto, Public Works ; De Vioenzi, Agriculture and Commerce. Several councillors and directors have also been appointed. NAPIX3, Tamar, Nov. 13. Signor Deblaaio has been appointed Prefect of Police. Admiral Pennine has been entrusted with the management of the affairs of the Marine. The electoral law of Sardinia has been promul gated for Naples. A general council has been established for the organisation of the Southern army. The departure of the King for Palermo has been adjourned. Preparations are being made for celebrating the time:Atka of the Marches and Umbria. SARDINIA. TURIN, Nov. 13. General Fanti has arrived here. MONTZNEORO. RAGUSA, Nov. 13. The French consul, K Hecquard, has been to Cettigne. The widow of Prince Thuilelo will proceed by to-morrow's 'teenier rid Corfu to Paris. She will be accompanied by K Heoquard and the prince as far as Scutari (Albania). Her daughter is obliged to remain here. PARIS, Nov. l& The King of Siam has declared war against the Emperor of Annam, who he now at war with France and Spain. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mow out own PARIS, TU DAY EVMMO. The only "latest news" in the Pays and Patric is a contradiction of • statement made by the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa and other journals that diplomatic relations are on the point of being broken off between France and Rome, and that the French army of occupation is expecting to receive the order to leave. The terms of this contradic tion, however, are so cold as to countenance the opinion that the French government expects the Pope to go. The expression that "so long as he stops in Rome he will find the most respect/sal protection from the French arms," which I find in both journals, implies that he may very likely not stay long. A Turin letter of Nov. 11 says that the Chevalier Nigro is coming to Paris on • special milision, and that in all probability he will remain here in his old post of minister, it being thought that diplo matic relations between France and Piedmont, which were broken off, will shortly be resumed. Notwithstanding the extremely bumptious tone of the French journals, which treat the prolonged sojourn of the French troops in Syria as a matter of course, I hear from a pretty good source that the powers intend to bold the Emperor to his treaty obligation to evacuate within six months of the time of his landing. There has been another fall in the Bourse. The Rents is now only just above 70fr., and lower than it was when Count Persigny's famous speech was pronounced. I hear that the measure taken by the Bank of France, which is theimtensible reason for the fall, was caused not so much by the rise of discount at the Bank of England as by Rothschild baring suddenly withdrawn fifty millions of frames which ' lie had iu the bank. The Route closed• at 70fr. be. for cash, and 70fr. 100. fur account, with a fall of 10c. and lbc. Mobilise fell °fr. 250. The Eastern Railway fell Mr., and the other lines were • trifle lower. I serious accident has occurred on the Southern Railway between Toulouse and Get& An express from Bordeaux ran into a third-eleas train at the Villedalgue station, and killed two passengers, while several others were wounded. There are floods in the department of the Haremlt, owing to ►erj hea►y rains ; all the coun try between Merbonne and Gotta is under water. M. de Vatimesnil, a parliamentary ►eteran who was Minister of Public Instruction under the re storation, and a member of M. de Martignac's cabinet in 1848, is just dead. He was a strong legitimist, and never took office either under Louis Philippe, the republic), or the empire. He was an eminent ad►ocate as well as a states man, and his opinions on difficult points of law are constantly cited as authority. The Swedish Chamber of Nobles, through one of I its members, It. Teremeder, has written to M. Vegeaxi a I letter in Italian, announcing the sending of six rifled cannon 1 end of a sum of 7,5001.,the result of subscriptions in Sweden in favour of AN outrancliiiminent of Southern Italy. The following ia an extract from the letter:—" The Swedish nation, lovirg liberty more than the light of the son, and having reoeutly celeliratad the 300th annivenery of the birth of Gustavus Wass, that man who, with a handful of brave men, when our national independence seemolannihilated wilier foreign tyranny, raised the standar:lot liberty, as your Garibaldi now does—this nation, we say, entertains the warmest sympathy fur the aspirations of the Italian people for independence and union." • Tme ASSAULT Cerf 4 AT Bumx.—The inquiry in stituted by th e Court of Discipline (Disciplinarki, I) into the cuuduct of M. Midler, the Prim:unlit of Bonn, in the ease of Captain Macdouald, has terminated. The investi• ptiou was ordered by the superior legal authorities, in con. eepumes of the ostopiande omit of the isiteniperaie Lin eage used by M. Muller while acting as public proseputer the char4e of assault. The Court of Discipline does not review the fade of the caw, only the MM. duct of the judicial functionary, as far se it is im• palmed. M. Midler, in explanation, stated that the terms he wad he did net and, to litallialtowt is am!. he even to ell English travellers, but ugly to tr 'rho by their usisheliaviour frequently provoked collisions with the authorities. But, as a question (4 demeanour and coodeet, the superior judges have decided that M. Minus's violent language was uabeeoluingt his judicial fusuitime, end have therefore visited bhu with a reprimand. The trump jaw nob Collira.b t b u r elr o t+ that the eusa has been innde the subjuvt of formal reprc•cubitmua to the Pru..itiui go ?crewcut. A EXPEDITII OVE: (ma ova OWN consameenzse.) TBN-110N, Barr. 8. I bald you in my lag letter that the cavalry bri ' gade had pioceeded t6tien-tsin by the left bank of the Peiho river. Sir Jolualichal's division marched from Tangkoo on the 306 h August,. erased the river by the bridge of boat. at Binh°, and proceeded by the right bank, arriving at this place on the 2nd instant.. The distance is 36 miles, and the road good through a perfectly level and highly culti ' vated country. The distance by the river is greater, owing to the great sinuosities of the stream—not less than 60 miles, certainly. The water is in tensely muddy all the way up to Tien-tain ; the banks are fringed with willow and fruit tress ; numerous villages are studded along the river ; and all through the country, which as far as the eye can reach is one vast alluvial plain, for the must part under cultivation. Each village is emboaomed in orchards and surrounded by extensive vegetable gardens, beautifully kept and carefully irrigated. The plains are covered with various crops of grain, but the most popular, at least the most extensively cultivated, appears to be millet, of shich you see fields extending in one un broken sheet for miles. The stalk grows to a great height, in some places to 12 or 15 feet, and the spike is large and well filled. The consumption of this grain must be enormous ; indeed, I believe it forms the staple article of food. Rice does not grow so far to the north, and is imported from the districts bordering on the Yang-tee-Kiang river. Enormous quantities of this grain we re sent an nually to Pekin by the Grand Canal, but since this MONDE of communication has been stopped, all the rice supplies have been sent round by junks through the Gulf of Pechili and up the Peiho river. Our occupation of Taku and Tien-Min must therefore have caused a great stoppage in the trade with the North. There is nothing at all remarkable or picturesque in the country between the mouth of the river and Tien-tein. It is one continuous dead level, without a bill or even a stone to break the monotony. But to those who bad lived for a month amongst the mud houses and on the mud flats of Peh-tang and Tangkoo, the change to green fields and trees loaded with fruit, and gardens of flowers, and vines, and vegetables, was truly re freshing, and many pronounced it to be the most beautiful country they had ever beheld. Sir Robert Napier's division arrived on the sth, and with the exception of one wing of the 3rd Buffs, left in the Taku Forts, the whole army is now concentrated at Tien-Min. Our allies marched up the left bank of the river, and were encamped on that aide ; while the British forces have pitched their tents on a vast grassy plain on the right ' bank, and about two miles onthe south aide of the city. The river, though narrow, in some place. not ' more than 60 yards, is deep enough to admit vessels of considerable size to run up with the tide. The Granada and the Carthage, steamers of 500 and GOO tons, have both beau brought up in safety under the able pilotage of Captain Dew, R.N., who appears to be thoroughly acquainted with all the intricacies of the navigation. The great difficulty with such largo vessels is the sharpness of the turns. The channel is always close to the bank on the outer side, and in hugging this the ship is very liable to run high and dry in the mud, or in straining to avoid this danger and giving the bank too wide a berth, Charybdis awaits you on the other aide in the shape of the shallows, where you are soon hopelessly aground. The value of the little gunboats in such a stream cannot be over-estimated. They puff up and down, night and day, dragging Marge junks loaded with stores and provisions, their tight draught of water and extreme handiness iu stealing making them tolerably independent of the tide, sod utterly indifferent to the turns and twist iugs of the river. Tien-tsin is a large walled town, supposed to contain 150,000 inhabitants, and totally unin teresting in every respect. It has no architectural beauties, the delete are narrow and tortuous, the houses for the most part built of wood or mud. There are, however, some good houses, of great extent and beautiful finish ; one of these, on the bank of the river, furnishes quarters for the British and French embassies and the English commander in-chief. It is laid out in a series of intricate court yards, with here and there a small garden, quanti ties of flowering shrubs growing in pots, green shady creepers trailing up the walls, much baud some carving iu wood, fine cornices in stucco,' and elaborately constructed furniture in the numerous apartments, consisting chiefly of tall and very straight-bauked arm chairs and portentowelookilig beds, whose extreme baldness gives one a respect ful ides of the self-denying habits of the Chinese aristocracy. The shops are for the most part poor and mean, and very inferior to those of Canton, but the shopkeeper* are apparently no way inferior in their estimate of the length of purse of the barbarians, and charge exorbitant prices with the easy grace and effrontery which is part of the natural character of the Chinese. Great labour a n d much money had been expended on the defences of this place. The old city is surrounded by a high brick wall and fosse, but it has long since outgrown these limits, and the greater part of the town is now a vast suburb on the banks of the river and of the Grand Canal which joins the Peiho just above the old city. To protect this, two forts had been constructed with great care, at a bend of the river, some two miles below Tien-tin—one on each bank. These forts mounted 13 or 14 gone each, and com manded the approach by the river. From these, an extensive wall of circumvallation, strengthened by an outer ditch, and stretching for • distance of 13 wiles, bad been ruu au as to embrace the whole city and suburbs on both sides of the river. It is a paltry work as a mewls of defence, though a large sum of money must have been expended in its construction. Ever since our arrival negotiations have been going on between the ambassadors and Kweiliang, the im perial commissioner, who was deputed from Pekin to meet Lord Elgin, and conduct the arrangements on the part of the Celestial Emperor. A conven tion, which, as I understand it, was to be a sort of supplement to the former treaty,of Tien-taiu, was to be signed, by which the Chinese government was to bind itself to pay • serials sum is a further indemnity for expenses of the war, in addition to what was settled by the former treaty, and to agree to certain arrangements of our troops for the win ter, to be made with a view of securing the fulfil ment of their engagements by the Chinese autho rities. All was supposed to be going on most favourably. The Chinese were said to be as sub missive as could be desired : the convention was to be signed to-day. Already the regiments likely to return. to England were beginning to be spoken of, and staff Whom; were speculating on the chanties of eating their Christmas dinner at " the keg," or under the paternal roof tree, when yesterday morn ing• we were electrified by the announcement ,that, the negetiatious were all in the air, that the Chinese eteuutimioiler declares lie has 110 power to make a convention, that the Pekinese are -Pr • thar city, MO lliat Sankolinsin, the 'tartar general, Idiom t<lS supposed to be a fugitive oii . fhe steppes of Mongolia, is at the head of an Andra* Tung-chow, a city between this and Pekin, prepared to dispute our passage if we attempt a march on the capital. How much of this may be true, in this land where lying is the normal attri bute of all Chinese society, Ido not pretend to know; but this is quite certain, that this morning the King's Dragoon Guards, Fane's Horse, the99th Foot, Barry's Armstrong and Stirling's six pounder guns, two hundred Marines, and some engineers, marched from Tien-tsin on the Pe kin road, as the advance guard, and that • division of the army, under Sir J. Michel, fol lows in the next few days. The Commander-In- Chief with his staff, and Lord Elgin with his suite, start to-morrow, and if the Chinese Emperor does not within the next few days eat very humble pie, we shall, in the course of • week, be making our demands in somewhat rough tones, possibly, before the walls of the capital. This is certainly an un expected complication. And what it may result in who can say ? Having owe started we must now go on till our terms are acceded to ; and if that does not happen, we must, I suppose, take Pekin, and then consider what to do next. The weather in the meantime has become exceedingly hot, and the prospect of a week or more in bell tents, with the thermometer at 100 degrees, is not a very lively one. The troops are healthy at present, despite the enormous quantity of fruit consumed. This is certainly the land for fruit, and just at present it is in perfection; apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, grapes, water melons, can be had in any quantity and for the merest trifle, and blocks of ice, rivalling that from Wenham Lake in quality and infinitely cheaper, are carried about the streets from morning to night for sale, and eaten by the vendor and his friends in the evening, if ho has failed to secure a purchaser during the day. The warts displayed in the shops are not very attractive. There are some good furs, for which enormous prices are asked, and an occasional bit of real old chills, or a genuine Onamelled copper vase, tempts the connoisseur in such articles to spend his superfluous dollars in the chance of being able to carry them away when the time comes for return to old England ; but most of the contents of the shops are such goods as are practically useful, and there appears to be but small attention given to ornament. There are quantities of printed calicoes from the looms of ,England, but I have seen nothing like woollen cloth in any of the stores. The temples or joss houses, as they are popularly called, are of consi derable extent, but of no beauty. They rejoice in a collection of huge ugly images of Chinese deities, made of wood, with grotesque faces and highly coloured—very much in the style of the statues of ' Gog and Magog in Guildhall. Tien-min is a great depot for salt and timber ; of the former article there is an enormous quantity. It is packed in large bags of matting, which are piled one on the top of another, forming huge mounds 30 or 40 feet high. Many acres ou the left bask of the river are oovered with these mounds, and the total quantity thus stored is very con siderable. The salt is made on the sea coast and brought up the river in junks. The government derives a considerable revenue from the duty levied upon it. _ _ T Barr. 9. There is no more news of interest. The rebels who were threatening Shanghai when I last wrote have withdrawn from that neighbourhood, and trade is going on as usual. The garrison of the place has been strengthened by the 44th Foot sent from Taku, and the 11th Punjaub Infantry from Canton. Sir John Michel mambos for Pekin on the 12th, taking with him the 2nd brigade. The force which marched yesterday should arrive at Tung-chow, a city twelve miles from Pekin, on the 14th, and there it will halt till joined by the 2nd brigade. After which, operations must depend in a great measure on the intentions of the Chinese. The Emperor is said to be very ill at Pekin. THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steam ship Ellora, Captain Joy, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived this del' at 1 p.m. She brings 87 passenger., 4 packages of specie value also 124 packages sundries, and 2,809 hales raw silk, value 250,0001. sterling. The Ellen left Alexandria on the Ist ; Malta, 4th ; and (Mueller, the Bth init. On the let spoke the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon ; fith, the Delta ; Bth, tho Ilapon • and the French barque Panetta on the I Ith, which req uested to be reported at Lloyd's. Two French troop ships, a Prusuan gunboat, and the usual Egyptian fleet were at Alexandria. Her Majesty's ships London, Ciesar, St. Jean d'Acre, Melpomene, 800trige, and Mani were at Malta ; sud at Gibraltar her Majesty's ship Argus, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Valetta, cud an American steam frigate. . . . . . The — Nespobtais ship Battier, which had arrival at Gibraltar ivoko, on the 7th September, in let. 8.49 N., Ica. 94.43 W., the British ship Anne (of Suoderlaud), from Glasgow, bound to Rangoon ; sad on the 30th Sql teniber, in Ist. 35.29 N., Inc. 9.40 W., the British brig Maid of the Isles, from Malaga for Baltimore, six days out. The following British ships bad arrived out at Gibraltar shwa the 2nd lost.—Steamer Frankfort, 6 days from Liver pool ; steamer Danube, 7 ■ dogs from Liverpool ; and steamer Agia Sofia, 7 days from Liverpool. Gibraltar exchanges, on the 7th inst., wars quoted on London, 90 days date, 50 5-16 ; Paris, M. 300. ; Manteillos, 51. 31c. ; Genoa, M. 33c. ; Madrid, 8 dope eight, par Gediz, 1 dis. ; Malaga and Valencia, par; Seville, I din. ; Alienate, 1 dia. ; Barcelona, 1 prem. ; fipsni.h pillan.d dollars Ferdinand, 21 per cent. preen., no demand ; Span ,h ditto, Combos, 18 to 20 ditto, in demand. Frsighti rimmed without alteration. Dow:fixo-sratEr, Nov. 10.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Tomlin* Gordon, Eaq., to be treasurer for the Island allrettoouver, and Henry gwanston Maynard, H•q., to be a amber of th e Executive Council of the Wand of Nevin.—Garder. Thu Btu& Lr SPAlN.—Captain Lithey, of the cutter Sarah Ann, now loading in the port of Villitvicioas, is Spain, with a cargo of fruit for Messrs. Pram and Chas troll, of this city, lies been compelled to tly from that country fur the safety of his life, leaving his vessel to be brought. to Bristol by any person the BritudiConsul may put ~n burnt. It appears that Captain Tetley has trailed to that port many years ;and being on friendly terms with the people, and finding them very willing and anxious to know some thing of our Bible, he presented one of his friends with one and distributed some tracts. This coming to the knowledge of the priest*, created such a sensation and disturbance that a guard of four men was put to watch the vessel for seventeen days, and had the captain gone on shore be would have been taken prisoner. Finding the anger against him so great, Captain .key reenlved upon plumbs( some means of ceonpe. He Accordingly got over the side of his vessel at night, and laid himself down in his boat, taking with him one of his crew to bring the boat hack. He landed at another part of the coma cud made friends with a Spaniard whom he met, and got him to conduct him to the mountain+, there to await another guide to take hint to Gijon. Having passed in ,iliguise the drat and second wintry at the entreuio of the town wide tested, he cants to the pier and fell in with an English captain, who kindly took him on board his vessel and locked him in his stateroom for six hours, when taking advantage at night of crossing the harbour in disguise, bo got un board a vessel just on the eve of sailing for Liverpool and thus made his agape. He is now waiting the arrival of his vessel, daily expected at that port -- Western Dui!, Press. °RAMA DKr' , itrawcsis AT BIILIAST.— Th e oor ondent of the Freeman's Journal, telegraphing from Belfast on Monday sight, says :—" At the annual meeting of ' the Hempel atiou Society,' held this evening in the Maisie-hall, the Orangemen prevented the Bishop of Down and Connor (Dr. Knox) from taking the chair. Dr. Miller, the vivo-, was appointed iu his stead, amid the great est ooufuaiou end uproar. The mews was disgraceful. Cries of No Pueayite,' •No Popish bisho pp , 'smiled the ear on ell sides. The muse of this disturbance is alleged to be tho hostility of the Orangemen to the bishop for inhibiting the Ilse. . Porter from preaching en °reap sermon in the parish church on the 12th of August. The meeting bad to be stopped. The bishop retired amid yells, ruins, and hums" MUSIC. MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS. These concerts, which have been carried on at St. Jameerhall for two seasons with extraordinary success, have now been rammed ; and we have no doubt that the favour with which they have been deservedly receive/Or by the public will be continued. When they were first sit on foot, we could scarcely have anticipated a success so coin , piste; for it seemed that performances of chamber music of the most severe and classical character—such as Wheels regarded as adapted only to the comprehension and taste of the artist, or the musically educated amateur—wonlil fail to interest and attract a popular audience. Experience, however, bas proved the reverse. The concerts have drawn crowded rooms, and the pieces which have been received with the loudest and most general applause have been the most artificial and complicated— the instrumental quartets and sonatas of the greatest masters. The concerts, cer tainly, have done much towards refining and educating the taste of those who have frequented them ; but it is equally certain that there must have been among the audiences a considerable amount of taste and intelligence to begin with. The concert of Monday evening was of the same character with those of the last two seasons. The music wax selected from the works of Spahr, Duseek, and Weber. The per. formanos opened with Spohr's Quartet in t 3 minor, one of hi earliest and (perhaps on that account) one of hie most pleasing works. It is evidently modelled upon Mmart, and is free from that smell of the lamp which is too perceptible in Spoheei later productions, admirable as they are. This quartet was played as well as possible by Mears. Becker, Ries, Schrears, and Piatti. Two of Spohr's prettiest vocal pieces —the air, " Rose, softly blooming," from Zemire and Azar, and the song, " Restore those visions bright, " were charmingly sung by Miss Augusta Thomson. Du sesk was represented by his fine sonata in B flat, for the piano and violin, played by M. Charles Hale and M. Becker ; and by one of his calumets, " Name the glad day," a lovely composition, sung most exquisitely by Madame Lemmens Sherrington, and applauded so enthu siastically that the fair vocalist returaed, after she had left the orchestra ; but it was only to bow her acknowledg meets. She did well ; and we hope the encore nuisance is in the way of being got rid of. Weber's music consisted of his magnificent sonata in C, op. 24, played by M. Balk ; his air from Euryanthe. " Glacklein tin Thale," sung by Madame Sherrington ; and his quartet in B flat, for the piano, violin, voila, and violoncello (a work in great favour among our amateurs), which formed the conclusion of a most excellent concert. DRAMA. LYCEUM. Madame Celesta has at last produoed an original melodrama, which ought to do her theatre much good, peenniarily and in point of reputation. Adrienne ; or, air Secret of a Life, is the title of a new piece played on Monday night with a encases widely different from that which can be easily distinguished se the mere first night's triumph, resulting from the partiality of friends. Indeed, had the promise of the first act been carried out, Mr. Leslie, who has thus made his first eery in the dramatic world, might have at the outset of his career taken very high rank among the stage authors of the day ; and, even as it is, he bas shown a power of construction which, when a little mellowed, will enable him to hold his own with the beat of our original dramatists. This, perhaps, is not saying much; but we mean no 'neer on Mr. Leslie's capabilities ; to understand the :ircaua of dramatic requirements is simply arrived at by long study. The dramatist, unlike the poet, is not born ready gifted, bat acquires his aptitude by study and prac tice. Mr. Leslie has made a very successful Wend, and with experience and are will work up to ahigh position. The first act of Adrienne opens in Rome, where Adrienne de Beaupre (Madame Celeste) is the beauty, the toast of the young men of the city. Foremost among her admirers is one M. Victor Savigne (Mr. Neville), who proposes to her and whom she loves, but he has a rival in the person of M. Eugene de Grams (Mr. George Vining), who, using for his influence some mysterious secret affecting the moral statue of Adrienne, compels her to engage herself to him. De Grasses has spoken slightingly of Adrienne, and is chal lenged by Victor. In • duel which takes place in a mist the former is severely wounded, but Las his consolation in the avowal wrung from the young lady that she willingly betrotbes herself to him. Three mouths Lave ela.eied, and we find Lie Grasnac in a louu chateau, still suffering from his wound, and attended upon by Adrienne sod Bertrand (Mr. Villiers), her mulatto steward. The wound dose not progress ; on the contrary, it increases iu virulence and suf fering ; and the patient writes to a celebrated Parisian doctor a full account of his ca.) and his feelings. To the audience it is plain that the protracted agony is caused by the machinations of the steward, who play. tricks with the bandages which he prepares, sad which Adrienne binds on the wounded arm. Eventually arrives the letter from the Paris physician, in which it is plainly declared that the symptoms described are those of an irritant piton. De Grasso dies, denouncing Adrienne—his principal nurse—as his murderess The third act is weak. Adrienne, and her faithful atten dant, Gianetta Soarotta (Mrs. Keeley), frightened at the dreadful accusation, have tied into the mountains, where Victor devisee (now become an officer) is quartered with his regiment, in pursuit of banditti. A prifet claims the soldier's aid to arrest a murderess, and Adrienne is cap. tared by Victor's men, but fortunately Bertrand, themulatto, in a dying Mate, confesses his guilt. and the mysterious secret, threatened by the deceased Eugene de Gramme, is so nissterious that not even the audience can understand it, but it is apparently cleared up to the satisfaction of every. body, and the curtain falls on the presumptive marriage of Adrienne and Victor. Ai we have before said, the piece was very nearly being very good —as it is it is well worth seeing. Madame Celeste plays with bee usual force and spirit ; Mrs. Keeley brings a subordinate portion, from sheer artistic talent, into ► most conspicuous position; Mr. G. Vining concentrates a life of energetic villany into two acts ; and Mr. Needle renders the rather insipid walking gentleman interesting and effective. Tel PRINCE OF WALEri' Cot yen. CILAYEZZ, BUCKINGHAM-OAM Nov. 10.—The MANS Of thaw who have been nomineted by the council of his Royal R the P ri nce of Wales to serve the office of sheriffrtrat , county of Cornwall:--John Francis Bassett, Esq.,of Tehidy; Thomas 'l'ristrum Spry Carlvuu. hot., of Tregreban ; John Michael Williams, Esq., of t.....terhayes Castle.—Gazette. MSFXASTILS MORALITY.—Oue John Omani was • behind a Newcastle counter, on Saturday evening, when a country girl *eked to be shown some belts. He produced them ; she purchased ono and stowed soother away is her I pocket. :scent bottles were shown her, sod one of them followed the belt. She then Purchased a paw of stockier • and " lifted" another pair to keep them commas% The watchful Coward saw all these robberies committed wed when the girl had paid her bill he accused her of the theft. Being asked at the police cond., yesterday, to give his retwoua for encoutugiug the commission of crime in this . manner, he proudly replied that if he had charged the . WOlll4ll with stealing the belt "she would not have par. chasol anything afterwards ;" and he, of course, was Anl/OIN to olitaiu as much of her cash es possible before he de. nautical her as a thief. The magistrates, we grieve to learn, did not appreciate Mr. Coward's sharpness, for we are told that they reprimanded him, and inflicted only a lenient • punishment upon the prisouer.--Yeicorstfe ChroPieit. TUN NOTTINIIHAM STK! KE. —Tho statement made by the secretary of the Lace Trade Society that all the sons society men had been discharged from the factories wherein the Mechlin dispute hail been for so 'mg a time peoding, has been denied by thoprincipils of the %rms,whe.atatethat some only were discharged, and some nre left nu the pre. milieu The masters never =tend iuto au agreement to discharge the tionAtociety men, hut what then have done lea been entirely at then own disuretion. The lockouts commenced work on Monday MUKUER IN SCOTLAN LP. —At a late hour last (Monday) night we received intelligence of a shocking murder, perpetrated ou Monday eight iu the usually quiet village of Alexandria, Vale of Leven, Dumbartonshire. The details which have reached us are comparatively meagre, but (rum whet we have been able to learn it appears that the fated deed WIA the result of a quarrel be tween two men, stihooe namea have not been ascertained, the one a shoemaker, and the other a mason's labourer. The men, who are stated' to have been human Ca- Umbels and fellowdtpdhoirs were on Sunday night conversing together on the merits of Gorilsiddi, when a violent altercation arose hetet en the two, termi nating in a fight, which their Luollottl thought better should be finished otitskle the house. Theo acmes dingly proceeded to the street, and there renewed the am filet, which, however, was won brought to a fatal conclu sion by the labourer stabbing his uutagouist iu the abdomen with a knife. Returning iitt, the house the labourer inti mated that he had put an en,: to Al opissitine in the future from his companion, when the Istullonl ruaheil out and dis covered the body of the unfortuiuste shoemaker stretched 'Helios upon the street. The intirdt-rsr was arental, and has liens lodged in the prison at 1 Muilerton. It is AuDoceii• eery to add that the wean - unto bus created a 111414 painful sensation throughout the Vale. -11'..4 Britiale Mai/. CRYSTAL PALACT. —ON f: SHILLINO DAY.—Trri- DAY, Nov, 1:t-Admissions on torment, 6.35 ; ditto to , steam tickets, 104 ; total visitors, 1,1;44 T