The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-21 00:00:00

POLAND.

Bazaar, Nov. AL

INDIA.

Letters received here, from Warsaw, announce
that the National Government has published in
an extra edition of the/ Niepocilegose four addresses
from the governments ,of Willie, Wasiak,
Kowno, and Grodnow, bearing 260,000 signatures,
protesting against the expression of loyalty ex-
torted by General Mouravieff, and expressing
entire devotion to the National Government

DESPATCH OF THE CZAR'S REPLY TO
THE CONGRESS PROPOSITION.
BERLIN, Nov. 21.

The Spenerschs Zeitung of to-day announces that
an officer of high rank is expected to arrive here on
Sunday next, on his way to Paris, the bearer of
the autograph reply of the Czar to the invitation
of the Emperor Napoleon to the emigres&

RUS&L
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2L
Therlmperial Bank of Russia Ism announced

thatlthe exchange of bills of credit for specie has
been suspended for the present.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 10.

The budget has been officially published. The
surplus and other figures are substantially the same
m those already made known. IL
decree, ordering the publication,
proolaimalreform and retrenchment as being per
by circumstances.
The French ambassador has presented to the
Sultan an autograph letter of invitation to the
Kuropren congress from the emperor Napoleon.

THE CAPE MAIL.
PLYMOUTH. Nov. 21.

The Dr:on Company's steamship Roman sr-
rived' off) Plymouth at 2 o'clock this morning
with the above mail and 30 passengers. She left
the Cape on the 21st ult., St. Helena on the 29th,
and Ascension on the 2nd Nov.
It was not likely that anything further would be
dose at the Cape in the removal of parliamentary
questions until the election of the members of the
Legislative Council in December or January, and
of the Assembly in February.
TheWynberg Railway will be completed by the
end of the year.
The weather continued remarkably favourable for
agriculture, and produce of all kinds was abundant
and cheap. Monetary and commercial affairs were
dull,lbut a steady though limited amount of busi-
ness was done.

There was no material alteration in the prioe of
Eastern province wools, but extensive purchases
hiaFceentmatleinfexecration of,lordersifor:the North
Anent uj States.. 'Large shipments had gone
forward.

alOwing•tonsomejrecent unpleasant disclosures
tinobs, adibeen cautious in discounting.
=r-epting the usual complaints of cattle stealing
by the nstives:.on ithe:, frontier, all was quiet with
the colonists.

The British Kaffrarians continued opposed to
annexation.

The movement in the free state in favour of rc-
annexation wee extending.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nox ov OWN

PARIS. FRIDAY EVZII7IIO.

In the Corps Legialatif yesterday the election of
M. Samuel Welles de Lavalatte for a district in
the Dordogne was objected to on the ground that
he was not a Frenchman. The facts are that he
was born at Boston, U.S., in May, 1834, of Ameri-
can parents, but being the adopted son of the Mar-
quis de Lavalette, senator, be had sufficient in-
terest to get himself proposed as a government
candidate, and it being found out at the last
moment that he was disqualified as a foreigner,
the Emperor, on May 16--only a fortnight
before the elections—gave him letters of na-
turalisation. It was strenuously argued by
MM. Elwin and Picard, that, by virtue of an
umnpealed law of 1849. nothing short of an express
act of the legislature could qualify a foreigner to
become a deputy, and that imperial letters of natu-
ralisation were insufficient. The government
commissary, however, maintained that the law of
1849 was repealed by implication in 1832, and the
chamber adopting this view M. Welles do Lava-
lette was admitted.

The case of M. Cur 4 of Bordeaux then came on,
and gave occasion to M. Jules Simon, one of the
members for Paris, to come out as a parliamentary
orator of a very high order. M. Curd had
only a majority of 40 votes over the opposition
candidate, If. Lavertujon, the editor of the
Gironde. It was proved that 18 functionaries were
put upon the register after the time allowed by
law, that M. Pietri, the prefect of Bordeaux, was
registered too late. and that 23 bankrupts,who are
by law disqualified, were permitted to vote. In
addition to these material facts, illegalities of the
ordinary sort, and which may be said to be common
to all the elections, were set forth with great elo-
quence by M. Jules Simon. He was replied to by
Thuillisr„ councillor of state, in a vehement
speech which all the opposition journals ad-
salt revealed remarkable talent. He carried
the war into the enemies' country, violently at-
tacked M. Lavertujon and the Gironde, explained
the government view of the system of government
easdidates, and asserted that all the manceuvras
imputed to M. Pietri were merely defensive. He
disposed of the figures brought against him by
making out, to the satisfaction of the majority,

that out of the eighteen functionariesimploporly
registered, only seven voted ; and that, sithou&
the 23 bankrupts were liable to be prosolliod far
having taken part in the election, yet that, beint
upon the register, their votes could not be rejected'
on a scrutiny. These reasons prevailed, and M.
Curb is a deputy.
The France thinks his seat was in very great
pee, and that K Thuiller's eloquence alone saved
bim.

I understand, but the fact is not yet official, that
the new election for Paris in M. E. Pelletan's cir.
cumecription is fixed for the 13th and 14th
December.

The Obserrateur de r dime, a Leon journal, has
received a warning for "most indecent attacks
upon the majority of the Corps Legialatif."
. . . .

AIL R de Guardin, who has just come from
Marseilles, and who was a witness to an accident
from a train running off the rails, gives his opinion
in the Prose that the line between Lyons and Mar-
seilles is now in such a bad state that the public
runs very serious risk in travelling upon it. Such
a statement cannot fail to call forth explanations
from the company, which has hitherto had the
credit of having one of the best managed railways
in the world.

The Bourse is a good deal better. Rente roee
20c. and Mobilier 20fr. It is rumoured that the
bullion in the Bank Is increasing again.
The Daily News is seized.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have
advtcee from Bombay to Oat. 29, and from Cal-
cutta to Oct. 20.

General interest in India centres in the Punjab,
where the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief
are making political and military tom.. ; where the
Viceregal Council is about to hold an extraordi-
nary meeting ; where a force of more than 7,000
men of all arms is marching against the fanatical
tribes on the Hamra frontier ; and where a camp
of exercise is being formed for political as well as
military reasons.
The Viceroy does not seem to be adhering staidly
to the published programme of his route, but m
daily marching donble stages, with a view to relish
Sealkote and Peshawar earlier than was expected
The chief will go through Cashmere to Peshawur.
It is settled that the entire council of the Viceroy
shall repair to Lahore, to take pm; in the extraor-
dinag legislative proceedings at the capital of the
Punjab. Thus in January next, the executive and
leilislative personnel of the viceregal government
will be separated from the capital and seat of 6o-
vernment of India by an inter al of about 1,300

The Sittanees on the N. W. frontier continue to
be troublesome. A formidable force has been
ordered to take the field against them. The ren-
dezvous for the corps forming the expedition is to
be at a place near Nowabera. General Chamberlain
is to assume the command. General Gana* is to
command the Peshawar division. The expedition
is to cross the frontier into the Swat valley about
the middle of November, and it is hoped will have
completed its work before the snow closes up the
passes, which usually occurs in December.
Affairs in Afghanistan wear a more peaceful
sactinundation of the Indus has been so severe
this year, that in the Catch district the town of
Haman has been washed &say.
His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-Ge-
arid of India has been provided by her Majesty
with a flag, the design of which is the Union Jack,
laavicg in its centre the Star of India, surmounted
by the royal crown. All men are to pay the same
marks of respect to the Viceroy's flag when un-
furled as are shown to the royal flag.
In reference to this flag the Hurkaru says:
All who wish well to this country mud earnestly pray
that the new flag may be the symbol of progress and crili.
tuition rather than of human misery and slaughter. INN
has had something too much of battle-felde sad military
glory. May a new era now arise of peace, oontentment, and
material psosperity. _ _ .

. . .
By a government resolution the trifling distinc-
tion that yet remained between the covenanted and
uncovenanted officers in the financial department
has been abolished.

The political mission to Bhootan, under the
Hon. Ashley Eden, will start for its destination is
soon as the rains have ceased, and will return be-
fore the setting in of the winter.
Colonel Haughton, officiating commissioner of
Assam, is sanguine of the success of Bea Island
co;.-ton on the bill slopes of Assam, for the moist
climate of which ifs well suited.

The man apprehended at Ajmere as the arch-
rebel Nana has been identified as a high-priest of
the Mahrattas. He still remains a prisoner at
Cawnpore ; and it is his declared determination to
sue government for false arrest and imprisonment.
Mr. Ayrton, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, and
now in Bombay, is prosecuting Mr. Lowe, the late
acting traffic manager of the G. L P. Railway Com-
pany for defamation of character.
We read in the Times of India of Oct. 29:

Unfavourable &commie are received of the present sista
of the crops and of the prospects of the approachin! winter
in the north-west provinces and the Punjab. Rail] hes not
fallen Mace the 24th August. What is sown is maid,
to be nearly ruined for want of rain, aid the
potted is so hard and dry that it cannot be
peeped for the grain that should be sown daring
the next three weeks. The 0011ee1114000 Is that
the price of grain is high and is daily rising. Wheat fell
in one day iu Umriteer from 31 so 24 401111 par r Ipso ; and
femme pikes nay be 'coked for during the approaching
winter, unless rain fall speedily to enable semindan to com-
mence sowing. Moreover, the price of cotton is very high,
so much so as to render it impossible for the poor people to
obtain warm clothing. The poorer classes is the north-west
do not wear breed cloth, but polo trod cotton, which is lined
and wadded with cotton between. The present high price of
cotton will be seriously felt by them should the approaching
winter be severe. _

The closing of the monsoon during the fortnight
had been, as usual, characterised by heavy ooca-
sional showers, accompanied by thunder and light-
ning. The total fall of rain during the season
amounted to about eighty inches. The bealth of
the town and island of Bombay had shown a alight
improvement.

THE ROSMAN HILMAIKINTS END TRH POHT/L
Tbe Levant Herald of Nov. 11 says:—" We understand
that &diplomatic note, worded with great clearness and pre-
cision, has been addressed to the Russian government by
A'ali Puha, our Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the sub-
js.:Ad the Russian armaments which are notoriously in mo-
ires@ on the whole line of the Russo-Turkish frontier. A'ali
Pacha requests distinct explanations from the goraniniaat
of St. Petersburg as to the fortifications reported to be in
active course of construction along the Crimean coast, sad
the number of minhosto stated to be building in different
porta of the Black Sea, in almost supercilious violation of
the stipulation► of the Treaty of Paris."

Flat nr MAntranorm.—Yesterday morning,
between four and five o'okok, a destructive fire broke out
oe the exteosive premises of Mr. B. Lbwsllen, pianoforte
manufacturer, BoLover-street, Portland-place, bf arylebone.
road. The fire was discovered raging in the workshop, which
was filled with expensive woods. Os the alarm being gime
the fire.inigines attended promptly, bet owing to the is-
flannable nature of the stock the flames could not be actin.
gobbed until the workshops Red valuable contents were
entirely destroyed, as well ss the workmen's tools. The lOU
will fall on the Phaseix Fire Office.
. _

A man (1w:;,t; be called the Dunderberg, is
Is now building at New York. She will be the meet power-
ful man of war afloat. She is 378 feet loop, 68 feet wide,
sad 32 feet deep. The sewer on the side is 6j fest thick of
timber and q inches thick of iron. On the cesemate
it is 3ft. of wood, and 3j inches of iron. She will have two
garrets, with two guns of heavy calibre in 'soh. fibe will
have six broadside and two pivot goon in the commate.
Her rig will be balf-mot, with yards and sails. The forward
part of the vase!, for 50 feet, of solid timber end iron, cow
@tits... the ram. The *aging,' me 6,000 horsepower, which
will propel her probably 16 miles an 'mgr.—Asuman
PaEr•
The following were consumed at the ball given
to the Alma of the Russian fleet at New York, via. :-
12,000 oysters, 10,00 pallet* end 2,000 lidded ; 19 mos-
iter mime, 30Th.. each ; 1900, game birds ; 950 turkeys :
400 chicks..; I,ooolbe. of tenderloin ; 100 pyramids of
pastry ; I,COO large loaves ; 3,600 bottles of wine.

-1861

perform
quit,'

TO COURT-MARTIAL ON COL. CRAWLEY. THZ VESTRY OF THE PARISH OP
CHELSEA. AND THE PROPOSED
BARIUM%

On the meeting et the court yeetenlay, it was ;
agreed that the prismsr should be allowed to ask questions j
in cross-examioation, instead of their being put by Colonel
Pipon. This was adopted in consequence of some discussion
taking plane on the previous day with respect to the preese
words which were taken down. It was now arranged that
a government short-band writer should tike down the !
answers from the mouth of the waned. sad reed them ti
the Deputy Judge Advocate, who, having written them
down, read them to the court.
Lienteeent Fitaimon wee then further crosceisminel,
his arminexaminationlastiog the whole of the day. He stated
that the order under which the sergeant-majors were coo-
limed wee a written order, and that it wee copied by the
sating sergeontnajor. ,He did not consider that it was big
duty an @dint, ot to post the sentries, but to vigil them
after they were posted, sad he did so to the beet of his
belief before attending mess—if he did attend noels at all
that day. When he first visited the 'entry be was posted in
the verandah. The regimental order for close arrest was
read, aid is it Colonel Crawley stated that Sergeant-Major
Linn should sot be let out of sight of the sentry night or
day, the only exception being when be went to the water-
closet. It was necessary that the sentry should be posted
inside the bungalow to carry out that order. He, as adjo-
tent, visited the many after that mdse, and he came to
him at the hack-door, but witness did not go into the room,
because be knew that Mrs. Lilley was rick.
Colonel Crawley called for the evidence given by the
witness in his enuniastion in chief with a view of pointing
one some discrepancies. Lieutenant Fithsimos had maid that
when the orders were gins not to coffer any onsaminien-
I tam to be made with the prisoner, he wandered that it wee
in the discretion of the leaky to go to the rem of the boom
oorsoicually to see that the order was canned out. Colossi
Crawley attempted to show that something had improperly
bees LA to the discretion of the sentry by the adjuhot,
but bnedin doing so. Being asked why his 'emery was
menthe as to certain facts mentioned in the examinstio•
in chief sod sot as to the facts referred to in cross-eraroi-
natioo,
Lieutenant Fitzsimon replied that it was not nanstnn
seeing that the facts he remembered were facts on which be
had intended to, and in foot did, write to the Commander-ia-
Chief ; asdhe had had frequentoonvenatices with his brother
oaken about them, which was sot the case in regard to the
matters referred to—ln cressexamination, and being ques-
tioned whether he would not enter a harsh order on the
regimental ceder-book for his own protection, be replied
that he only entered orders which he was ion/tooted to
eater by lisoonsmending ofgeer, and that it was sot insenl to
eater ordereabost pasting sentrien. He was erosnexasthied
at emedderable length in regard to the conversation singed
to have taken pion among the damn in the orderly room,
and some contradiction between his evident* is thief sad
bin answers now was attempted to be "bows, hat be ex-
plained their, end said he remembered distinctly that at
that meeting Sargent-Major Cotton said that be had told
ColoselOrawley that Sageant-Major Lilley was • married
man, whereupon his commanding officer got Into a great
lap, and ordered him out of the room. He sever Inquired
who the sentry woe that saw the liniment robbed on Mn.
Lilley 's chest.
Wesel Crawley—After the alleged orders, who was the
first sentry who raw Sergeant-Major Lilley rub the lim-
ment on Mrs. Mill's chest? Witness—l am not aware. I
beard it remarked to my commanding officer, as I heard is
also myself.
Colonel Q.,,wley —That is no answer to my question.
The Premien—Pot it in another shape.
Calms] Crawley—Doi any snag ever see that operation
formed to your keowledp ? Witness—l have sever is-
aired about it from any sentry,:nor do I know.
Colonel Crawley—Then so far as you know the semed
order did sot lead to the indecency you anticipated, end
which you have stated in your evidence in chief f Witham
—I should like to haw what indecency is referred to
wl•ich I stated in my evidence in chief.
Colonel Crawley (reading)—" I also remarked that Mts.
Lille, was sick, and that be, husband was obliged to rob
liniment on her shed every day." What is the drift sad
tendency of that remark ? Was it not that the matey
would see that operction, and that Mrs. Tilley worldbe
thereby 'objected to inffigaity t Witness—Yes, and it win
my ides that when the commanding officer knew it be would
not allow the indignity to be repeated, and not allow the
sentry to be inside, se the order was given.
Cdoeel Crawley—Did Mn. Lilley ever suffer the locos-
reales°. you seMdpated? Witheria—l do not know. I
have heard listened.

Colonel Crawley—l mast repeat my question. Witwere—
iseoarsaiewes t_ _ .

..Ogles e! Crawley—in having the ointment rubbed into her
sheet whits a sentry was present? Wanes—As I have
.ever seen it I esuot say.
Coked Crawl—On your oath, do you of do you sot
believe that she did? Witness—On my oath I moot say.
Colonel Crawley—lt has been stated in pediment that
Mrs. Lilley was compelled to perform all the fooderes el
More in the preemies of a sentry." To your knowledge is
that tree or false? Witeese—l do not know.
Colonel Crawly—ln your great concern for Mrs. Utley
did it ever mute you to inquire whether she ever mitered
from this or not? Witness—l do not recollect having
inquired.
Colonel Crawley—Wen the sentries to your tnowledge
ever inside Mrs. Lilley's bedroom? Witness—l cannot
state whether they were inside the bedroom or not. I have
rot seen them there.
Colonel Crawley—Have you ever beard the matter dis-
cussed, and have such statements bees made in your pre-
sence by &spree? Wit ...—I think I have heard it stated
that they were at the dew or Miele the bedroom.
Colonel Crawley —May I assume that if such statements
had been made, that Jim Lilley had to perform the func-
tion. of eaten in the presence of a sentry, you would have
iudignantly denied them ? Witness—l should not have
I denied them, not knowing whether it had occurred or not.
Colonel Crawley—Then that is what you consider the duty
of an officer in such a cue towards a regimcd of which be
is a member! Witness—l =not refute that which Ido not
know.
Colonel Crawley—Where did Mrs. Utley sleep? Wit-
neee—l have seen the room pointed out in the model, but I
do not know myself, sot having gone into the building since
the arrest.
Colonel Crawley—Wu any report ever made by you to
me of any annoyance or ioconvenisece that was mused
either to thentrettMajor or to Mrs. Lilley?
None to my
Colonel Crawley—Dui you ever receive soy report of any
imixivencaree or annoyers:6 having been caused either from
Sergeant-Major Ulu or Mr.. Laity, or from anyone else?
Witness—l have heard it spoken of.
Coked Crawley—l beg to protest agaiset any hearsay
evidence bes.g foisted into the evidence gratuitously by the
and either that the latter part of the answer may
be expunged with all that refers to hammy evidence, or that
the protest be received.
The court ruled that the answer meat stand.
The question was repeated.
Witamis—l have never to my koowledge received such a
report either from Sergeant-Major Lilley or Mrs. Lilley, or
any melee, bat, as I .aid before, I have heard it spoken of.
The court then adjourned at four o'clock until to-morrow
(this day).

Meows. Bide and Brougham's new opera,
Blanche dc Never; in to he produced at the Royal English
Opera Hoeft this ereolog.
_ _ .

The narrative of the discovery of the source of
the Nile and of the travels in Equatori►l Africa, by Captains
Grant and Spelt*, will probtbly be published in December.
Capt. Spoke has passed the autumn in Scotland, employed
on the preparation of his journal.

. .
We (Atheaceunt) understand that the Poet-Lau-
reate hie been trying his h►nd at classic metres is quantity,
and that some specimens of hexameters and pentameters,
abates, and Iseedeouyllabics, by Mr. Tennyson, will shortly

The meetings of Scientific Societies for the en-
snips week, are :—Yonday, Royal Acaiemy. 8—" Ana-
tomy," Prof. Partridge ; Geographical, 84—" Explorations
West of White Nile," from Mr. Tione ; "Colonel Pelly's
Journey, Persian Gulf." Tuesday, Ethrological, 8—
"Aboriginal Occupstioo, N. Tyndale and W. Northumber-
land," Rev. Rome Hall ; "The Weddoe, or Widdot," by a
Tamil Native of Ceylon. Engineers. 8—" Ootaish Pump-
ing Engines." Mr. Morehead. Zoological, 9—" Genus
Simnel*" Dr. Bowerbank; "Insects, hfadegascar," Yr.
Bates. Wednesday. Society of Arta, 8—" Australian
Colonies," Sir C. Nicholson ; "New South Walee, its re-
souresa," Sir C. Nicholson. Royal Society of Literature,
Si—" Old Maps of Africa, with Central Equatorial Lakes,"
Mr. Hogg. Archaeological Aseociation, 81—" Unpublished
XBB. Meaux Abbey; Roman Roads, Colchester," Rev. H.
Jenkins. Thursday, Antiquaries. 8—" Roman London,
Yr. Bleck. Royal, Si.

_ .
An ingenious personage has discovered an econo-
mical any of lighting cities, sad proposes to apply it to
Paris. Balloons, from the ears of which are to emanate
en electric light, are to be Bud at certain stations, and
boom over the city, at the proportion of one balloon to
80,000 persona; the city would be lighter at night than it
often is in winter by day!
. _

A new garden for the recreation of the working
classes is about to be opined at the Buttes Bt. Chaumont,
one of the northern suburbs of Paris. This sew rodeo,
or, more properly, park, will be the largest within the for-
tifications of Paris, covering a apace of ISO acres, nearly
double the area of the Pere Mososaux. It will, moreover,
command the firma view. It is to be, like other public
prdeos, pleated with the rarest foreign shrubs, *elected
from the horticultural gardens of La Mutts, near Auteuil.
The Cambridge lndeperuktd says :—" The ap-
moieties °einem for the Professorship of Politica Emeorny
is musing no little excitement in the university ; scarcely
anything else is jut sow talked about. Malt palms apes
that the struggle will be a very close ma, and it is there-
fore impossible to say which of the candklatee is the most
likely to moms& We confess we are unable to mien any
very valid gonna for oar opisios, but we aerosol help thick-
leg that it will he a arm between Courtney and Yawata—
?await for choices"

ST. LUKE,
CAVALRY