The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-27 00:00:00

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and ;with the spirit which evidently pervaded the
journals. It is in following out the same policy that
I that other officers on
landing
were received
with every
goark of respect. Indeed, I am informed that
Lieu-
Lstnirtere, to mention one, was allowed as aspecial • fevoar to pass the customhouse without having his
effects touched, and that the same courtesy was
accorded to the friends who were with him. Ftllly
to app:eciate such an act of grace a person ought to
have passed arose' the vexations of a Naples ,
custom-hones. Since his arrival Sir William Temple '
has had three iAterviews with his Majesty. Consider-
able supplies of rorovisions have been purchased here .
on account of the allies, a fact which has raised the
price of many arei,eles of food.
There has been ,tech illness during the winter in
Naples, and the proportion of deaths was for a short
time as great as duria,‘ the pestilence of the cholera
this last year. Ever v one has been attacked by
influenza, and several elf our oldest residents have
. . been taken off by it. Wh, en I wrote last I complained
of the weather as having been very cold, and having
inflicted serious damage on the orange crops. lam
now writing on the day after the severest storm
which has been known he.re for many years. It
came on on the evening of the !4th from the south- ,
west, and raged with the intensest fury till the morn-
ing of the 16th. In some villages near the coast the I
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sea, which rose as if impelled by some subterranean
commotion, made a clean breach over the houses, i
sweeping them out completely of their contents, and
taking them off to sea. The early crops have been
destroyed, and the olive trees have suffered much.
As yet we have heard but little of the disastrous II .
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effects of the storm; but we are fearful that it bas
occasioned a wide-spread ruin.
The " observed of all observers " here is General r ;
Pennefather, who take, his daily walks in the Villa ' ~ I
Reale. He still is very feeble, and has not recovered . .
the injurious effects of his recent campaigning. I ,
The exchange on London is still at 531.
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AUSTRALIA.
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PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.
The Plantagenet, Pollock, master, arrived here
yesterday, with dates from Sydney of the 17th of
October, and St. Helena of the 24th of December.
The Plantagenet brings about 9,000 ounces of
gold, and a full cargo of wool, tallow, and hides.
She experienced contrary winds after passing the
Horn, and was short of provisions on entering this
Port 1
AMERICA.
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The United States mail packet Union arrived at
Cowes yesterday, on her way to Havre. She left
New York Feb. 10.
Amongst the cargo of the Union is specie to the ',
value of 150,000 dole., for France.
The Atlantic, from Liverpool, arrived at New . tl
York on the 9th.
Au arrival of 1,239,209 dollars from California is 1
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reported from New York.
The House .of Representatives has passed the
Texas Debt Bill, with an amendment reducing
the indemnity to the creditors to 6,550,000 dole., 11
being the principal, accrued interest, and pre
sent market worth of the 5,000,000 dollars
Public Stock reserved for this object under the
compromise measures of 1850. Mr. Houston, of the
Ways and Means committee, succeeded in getting a
test vote to go into committee of the whole on his
proposed amendment of the tariff-yeas 104, nays 97.
But, on going into committee, the Louse decided by
another close vote to take up a different bill, which
virtually negatived the previous proposition.
Mr. Breckinridge has stated in the Senate that
he had declined the appointment of Minister to ; ,
Spain. ' ; 1,
The care, on the 28th tilt., passed over the road L 1
that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific, at the
Isthmus, thus marking the year 1855 as the begin-
ning
of a new era in the history of the American
Continent.
The New York papers state that a part of Santa
Anna's army, 2,000 in number, had deserted and
gone over to General Alvarez. A portion of them,
with some of their officers, reached Acapulco Jan. 23.
The remainder were daily expected.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, FED. 9.
The sccounta from Europe per Atlantis were on their first
receipt regarded as unfavourable to our stock market, a
drain upon our gold resources being apprehended. The
money market keeps easy. The busier le in stooks to-cley
was again large on the hood list, the sates summing up
346,000 dole., and embracing all the leedint railway loans
and the more active of the state stocks. Prices were gene-
/Illy firm.
The cotton market, in consequence of the foreign news,
war somewhat unsettled. The sales embraced about 300 to
400 bales, bat prices were not established subsequent to the
. receipt of the news.
The foreign news exercised no influence on prices of flour,
and the export demand being light, and the state of the
weather unfavourable to the domestic trade, the sales were
confined to about 4,000 to 6,000 bbls. of all kinds. Comtism
to good straight state closed at 8 dole. 25c. to 8 dole. 50e. ;
western at 8 dole. 75e. to 9 dots. 2hc., ana 10 dole. 75c. for
extra Ohio; 9 dole. 37c. to 9 dole 75c. for extra Michigan,
and 10 dole. 50e. to 12 dole. for extra Genesee. Canada
i flour was at 9 dole. 25e. to 9 dole. 87c., duty paid, and
8 dole. 87c. to 9 dole. asked, in bond; and southern at
8 dole. 60c. to 9 dole. for common, and 9 dole, 2Se. to 10 dole.
50c. for extra. Wheat was quiet, and prices nominal.
Corn was held above the views of buyers as high as 105 c.
1 being asked (update southern. The only sale of moment
we heard of was 10,000 bushels, to arrive, at 101 c. Rye
, was nominal, and oats firm
For Liverpool, freight engagements were light, and in.
elided about 100 belied cotton at 3s. 6d. per bale, and 600
boxes bacon at 17r. 6d. To London no engagements were
I reported.
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DEATH OF PROFESSOR GAUBS.-We regret to re.
, i , cries in letters from Gottingen the announcement that Pro-
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t fessor Gauss, of that university, died on Friday last, the i
) 23rd inst. I 0 t
ADMIRAL NACHIMOFF has just received from the
s Czar the order of the White Eagle, as a reward for his ser-
vices at Sebastopol.
. ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOYOL.-Yesterday the COl3l- '
mine' nominated by the House of Commons met for the
first time, to choose a chairman and consider the course of
their proceeding. Mr. Roebuck was unanimously chosen
chairman, the other members being Mr. Drummond, Sir J.
Pakington, Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Layud, Mr. Ellice, Lord
Seymour, Sir George Lewis, General Peel, Mr. Bramston.
/ and Mr. J. Ball. The question as to whether the proceed-
; ings of the committee are to be open through the lams-
mentality of the press to the public, as is now customary is .
all our courts and other tribunals, is to engage the attention
▪ of the committee at their next sitting.
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Ines IN BISHOPSGATE AND WHITECHAB'EL.
' -Last night, between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock,
two serious fires broke out almost simultaneously-
t one in the spacious saw mills belonging to Messrs. Udell
a and Co., No. 37A, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate, adjoining
g the pianoforte factory of Messrs. Smith and Co.; tks other
' in the Montague Glass-works, situate in Old Montague-
street, Whitechapel. The first fire originated in a nol.citmg
2 fitted up most expensively with steam machinery tor the
B saw-mill, which was of considerable
breadth tad length,
I in which property of great value was deposited-. After
the
a r' lapse of four or five hour' the firemen at length managed
to
nt bur noeunta th•
,2 m geillst thwere toe mastery over the fearful eleme , . .
tally consumed and moat of the inisclunere de-
' stroyed. The are in the Montague Glue-works could not
i• be extinguished until a considerable amouatef damage was
d done.
d CHANGES IN THE MANCHESTER POST-OFFICE,-
making in th•MAnchester Poet-
-0 Some extensiee changes are
e office, under the direction of a commissioner from St. Mar-
i, tin's-leG-aad, to better fit the machinery for the increased-
business Of this large town. The number of letter carrier,,
at present 80, is be increased to 116. The scale of remune-
ration is also to he increased, and placed on a better prise:pie.
s- At present there are some of a1k,,,il -tier carrier., who
a have been %Ir.) years in s i • littir-• iv • rf, ,;.,,,,,,, per
,d week; hut. by the new 't • .;,..,.. i"t . ,•ce of rising,
. by merit, to salaries as g • ,
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..,,,,,There are is
`- ititure to be 61 letter cafe' :711 ..
.. , ; s.-ter week ;40
g at 225. to 25e. per weelfr • .*.I ;,t„. , : 3%. per
week.
r• I This is a very desirable -•'' • ' .
.• atnsidered that
ig this class of servants h lt( ontrosted-rto
ice them containing large ie - • r :. is*hardly fitting
Wthat the wtched payra%t on. ; _ itureekek should be
, continued as the ntatowem • •"""1- g veld aspire to.
a" They ars alsoalso to be beer. • • '''aZa.i, , *au the uniform
he runny gimi V 9 *is due 9 !. 7-, .1 i's wires!,
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