The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, D.C. 27.
Marshal O'Donnell will speak to-day in the
Senate on the Mexican question.

THE BRAZILS.
LISBON, Duo 29.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Tyne, from the Brazils, arrived here to-day, and
will leave for Southampton at 3 p.m., with 46
passengers, 1,5001. in specie, 383 rolls of tobacco,
and 134 packages of sundries.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9.
Exchange on London, 274. Coffee is quoted 6,600
to 6,700. Total shipments sinoe the departure of
the last mail, 96,000 bags, of which 27,000 are for
the Channel ; stock, 85,000 bags. Freights, Me.
to 60a.

- - -- At Bahia exchange on London was quoted 27i.
Cotton, 15,000 to 16,000 rats; sugar, 2,200 to
2,300 rein

Exchange on London at Pernambuco 29. Sugar,
whites, 3,400 to 3,600 ; btowus, 2,800 to 2,900 ;
cotton, 13,600 to 14,000. . .

The EAramadura arrived at Pernambuco on the
12th, and sailed the same day for Bahia.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC FULLS.

OOUTHANITON, Die. 30.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon,
Captain Abbott, with the above mails, has arrived
here. She brings 147 passengers, 685,3601. in
specie, and a cargo consisting of 3,731 packages of
merchandise.

The Shannon left St. Thomas's on the 15th
inst., and had a fine passage throughout
♦ public meeting was held on the 9th inst. at
Valparaiso, the object being to renew to the Pre-
sident and the ministry votes of their sympathy
and confidence. This act had been occasioned by
the conduct of the House of Representatives, who
had proved themselves hostile to the government
and public opinion.
The railway from Santiago to the south was
completed as far as Sau Fernando, adistance of 120
miles.

The new President of Peru was continuing to
introduce reforms into every department of the
government, and a circular which had been issued
to the Peruvian diplomatic and consular corps
enjoins them to abstain from all extraordinary ex-
penses.
On the 11th, the Minister of Finance sent a
message to Congress, laying before the house the
embarrassed condition of the exchequer, and soli-
cited its sanction to accept the proposal of Witt and
Bchute to lend the government 700,000 dols., on
ooudition of making over to them the consignment
of guano in Germany for eight years, allowing the
name terms granted to other consignees. The
Chambers approved the contract.
The proposal of Thompson, Bonnard, and Co.,
of London, for laying down a railway between Lima
and Lauja under conditions of which the principal
are, the exclusive privilege for 90 years and a gua-
rantee of 7 per cent, on the capital invested, has
been approved by the Chamber of Deputies.
The floods on the Isthmus of Panama have sub-
sided, and the railway communication is again
opened. The news from the West India Islands
is unimportant. The crops at Bartadoes are pro-
mising, and expected to give fair returns. The
health of the island is improving.
Exchange, ninety days, 487 half dollars.
At Demerara the weather was wet, trade dull,
and no prospect of improvement. Tonnage scarce,
freights advancing.

CREECH AND ENGLAND.—It appears from a par-
liamentary paper published yesterday that very large im-
ports are made from Greece to England. In the first three
quarters of the present year the value was 369,0601., against
207,5001. in the previous year.
The text of the treaty recently concluded between
France and Iladagucer bas just been published in the
French journals. It is a treaty of commerce, and the most
noteworthy point in connexion with it is that Radama Ll
is recognised by the Emperor Napoleon as the sole and
pendent sovereign of the island.
EAST INDIA AND LONDON SHIPPING COMPAHY
(LnarED).-11B• second ordinary general meeting of this
company was held at the offices, 9 Mincing lane, on the
29th inst., Captain Pay, R.N., presiding. The report of
the directors, which mitered fully into the transactions of
the company and dwelt particularly on the exoellent pas.
sagas their ships had been making sad were still maintain-
ing, together with the ODODu nigieg tutors prospects of the
company, was read and unanimously "dolga'. The retanor
director', T. Brassey, jun., Eaq.„ and C. Capper, Esq., were
' reelected, as were also the retiring auditors, F. H. Gordon,
Req., end C. F. Kemp, Eel. Ike meeting then became
special in accordance with the notice to that effect, -bee a
resolution extending the borrowing powers of the directon
and sanctioning the borrowing of a sum not exceeding two.
thirds of the nominal capital was unanimously adopted. A
cordial vote of thanks was then voted to the chairman, after
which fire meeting separated.

To those good easy folks whose faith is so large
in Time that they fondly try to believe it will shape
to a perfect end even the outrageous imperfections
of the Pontifical government, I recommend an
honest frank-minded perusal of the following arti-
cle, which I translate from the last week's number
of a Roman journal, printed at the Apostolic
press. It will produce no astonishment in ,the
minds of those who, like myself, have had favour-
able opportunities of becoming acquainted with real
Roman Catholic opinion ; but it will enlighten
others who, denied acmes to the authentic circles of
Ultramontane ideas, comfort themselves with the
notion that compromise, a word dear to almost
every English ear, will eventually find its way
even into the Vatican. I assure them that it
is not the mere production of an over-sealius
scribe, the clumsy advocacy of a paper which
more authoritative tongues would be swift to dis-
avow. It contains the expression a opinion en-•
tertaterat b 7 every ma, maw; Dlr child, nerieed
at what the Church is pleased to tall the age of
mown (viz., the age at which a child is first old
enough to repeat what it will never be old enough
to understand), whom that Church considers
as properly belonging to her fold. It declares
openly what is sometimes more cautiously, but sot
more distinctly, declared from the pulpit, and still
more violently declared by the domestic hearth. :It
is the opinion of Pius IX., of the College of Cardi-
nals, and peculiarly of that most estimable but nar-
row-minded class, your Roman catholic countrymen.
It represents the real" Thou art Peter" doctrine, and
regards its opponents as emissaries from the gates
of bell which, it has been declared, shall never pre-
vail. The article is in answer, not to any avowedly
liberal paper, not to such a journalistic outcast for
instance as the Daily News or the Temps, but to a
defender of the temporal power, to an avowed
enemy of Italian unity, to a paper started expressly
to advoiate retrograde views, to the organ of her
devout Majesty, to La Prance. It appears that
La France has recently expressed the opinion that
" The Holy Father will never find circumstances
more favourable to wise reforms than the present,"
the chief reason being that "he has at his back
the Emperor to enlighten, guide, and sustain him."
Having printed " enlighten ' and " guide " iu the
very largest capitals, the Roman journal comments
on its Parisian contemporary in the following lan-
guage :
Is it not the height of contradiction in this paper to de-
fend what yet remains of the temporal power of the Holy
ities.against the Piedniontsee democracy, and at the same
time offer counsels of wisdom to him whom divine vied=
inspires ; to concede to the Emperor the pieteusion of being
able to enlighten the mirror which reflects the contested
light, and to guide the Supreme Pastor, established by our
Lord Jason Christ to be the very pathway of the human
race Let sot Le Prance answer us with the distinction
between the spiritual and the temporal. This argu-
ment of revolutionary impiety is only a piece of
clumsy hypocrisy. The Vicars of Jesus Christ have
always been, and always will to, the best ad-
ministrators of the Isterests of the people, bemuse they
perforce retain in the management of temporal affairs •
inure or less illuminating ray of spiritual assistance, in-
variably superior to the skilfulness of other Kings. Them
other Kings possess the force conferred by arms. Fortu-
nate am they who have the mom to place that fore, at the
disposal of the Pops always chastised, whim they abuse it
is order to app.... or Isstray him, or to deliver biro into
the bands of his enemies. In conferring then on its sove-
reign the mission of eoliehtening and guiding the Holy
Father, La limits is guilty of a great impropriety. in
limiting this minion to what it really should be—sustaieiog
Use Holy Father —La Prance would do honour at ones to
Pius IX. and Napoleon IIL
There, ye kings of the earth ! you know now what
you were made for. Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne
can do no better than study the foregoing, and send
a copy of it to his august master. A. thousand
interviews and ten thousand despatches will not so
well inform him of what the Holy Father considers
the special functions of the Eldest Son of the
Church.

Having thus unmasked its notions upon the value
of Emperors, the article goes on to give an equally
honest opinion of the value of the people, after a
few remarks upon the worth of the word ' retorm."
" But let us come," it says, " to these reforms.
There is talk of them in those Roman circles
which are frequented by strangers." (In no
others, you may be sure, and this the article
evidently intends to imply). "The word re-
form, let us confess, has a sufficiently evil
sound at Rome, and there recall the painful lacera-
tions which the Holy Spouse of Christ has had to
suffer for upwards of three centuries. This word
has the moat villanous origin • it has undermined II
I •••• •
many thrones, and ruined Louisuis Philippe.' wins
last sentence terminates rather with a twang of
bathos. However, the next is better. "Taken in
the sense which it assumes from the actual political
vocabulary, it signifies, when ultimately analysed,
the substitution of the sovereignty of the people for
the sovereignty of the monarch. Pius IX. has I
already had a painful experience of this species of
reform. He bad no lack of all the modern appara-
tus : a constitution, responsible ministers, a parlia-
ment, a national guard, and liberty of the press.
These beautiful institutions have made Rome run
with blood," as you have so often read. The
article goes on to say that it is not only
recently that the Sovereign Pontiffs have be-
come acquainted with the character of the
people, turned king ; and quotes the lan-
guage of Pius VI. in his allocution of 1793, in
which they are spoken of as "always inconstant,
easily deceived, inclined towards every excess, un-
grateful, arrogant, cruel, rejoicing in carnage and
the effusion of human blood, and gratified by the
contemplation of the agony which precedes the last
gasp, just like the ancients in witnessing the gladia-
tors expiring in the amphitheatres." And in order
that there may remain no doubt in the mind of his
reader of the value set by the journalist himself on
this monster he adds, "awl such, in real truth,
the people become when rendered sovereign ; that
is to say, brutalised and counselled by revolu-
tionary Chambers and impious journalists. The
Pope will, therefore, never coasent to hand over
the essence of power to others, and to reign but in
the name of the people."
After this honest confession, and especially the
blunt avowal contained in the last sentence, are
you surprised that I do not talc,, much notice of
the concession made by the Pope within the last
few days, in a feigned spirit of reform 1 I leave to
others to congratulate themselves on the announce-
ment that an electoral vote has been granted to the
people in the choice of the members of the munici-
palities. I am satisfied to try to convince others
of what I have long known, and what, I am bound
to say, the Papal government and its authentic
mouthpieces have all along outspokenly declared—
that it will not yield one jot of its individual
power to do for and with its subjects what it, "the
mirror of the untreated light," shall think best for
them—i.c. most convenient for itself. It seeks for
no reconciliation with the nineteenth century, and
it will accept none. Every step forward it regards as
• step to social disruption, and the annihilation of
' its authority • and in this last suspicion it is quite
right. The Court of Rome is not so unwise as
most folks fancy. It is thoroughly aware that
progress is incompatible with its existence,
and so it pelts progress with long Latin adjectives
that have become expunged
_ from all but the eocle-
aisstieel vocabulary. No one need marvel that
jounialiam which serves up for its readers such
thoroughgoing doctrines as those which I have just
quoted should provide them with such thorough-
going news as the following :—" The government"

During the execution the confraternity pray in a devout
posture. The body hangs two hours, after which the senior
member of the confraternity claims as his especial right the
privilege of initial'', the rope from the corps► The mem-
ber, receive the body, sad carry it to the place of inter-
ment, when it is buried in a sack. All this is done by the
oonfraternity themselves, without any other assistance, and
though the duties are so disagreeable, it I/ considered a very
high honour even by the highest classes to belong to the
order.

The hangman's situation is anything but coveted. He
receives about 401. per annum, and a trifling gratuity for
every execution.
In July last a maid servant, Catarina Bary, was found
murdered, and the hones, which was next door to the
officers' quarters, robbed. The police have shown great
judgment and sagacity in discovering the murderers and
burglars. end last week Giumeppe Attord. coachman, and
Giuseppe Cheteute, fruit seller, were tried arid condemned,
principally on the evidence of a coufederate who turned
Queen's evidence. The police remitted out some 80 wit-
nesses in support of the charge, the jury unaoirnonely found
than guilty, sad of the morning of the Tied, at eight a.m.,
the sentence eras carried into execution, and the two primmers
were hailed from one gallows at the mine time. They
eetered the chapel on Saturday at 3 p.m., from which boar
they may be mid to bays been dead to the world. The
honour, for such it is considered, of entering them from
the gallows fell to the lot of two of the confraternity,
000 of whom is said to be Count Pretimo. The members
had been actively collecting funds for some days previous,
and returned to town shortly after 12 o'clock of the
I day of the execution, after their arduous, unpleasant, and
fatiguing duty.
The execution has cast quite • gloom over the town.
The crowd felt it deeply. The prisoners acknowledged
their guilt, said they had been the victims of gambling,
and persuaded their countrymen to avoid gambling.
On Sunday next a charity sermon will be preached and
a collection made in aid of the distress in the manufacturing
districts of Lancubire.

Cheat preparations are being made for to-morrow,
Christmas Day. The sailors of the various men-of-war in
port have been making large pi:mimes in the market, and
taken whole basket loads of meat off to their ships. Suck.
ing pigs, red herrings, and geese appear to be favourite
dishes, from the quantity purchased of these articles. The
ships are garnished with evergreens, and from appearances
it is pretty clear that the seamen of her Majesty's fleet in
Malta intend to make " a d►y of it to-morrow.
In the regiments, the officers have subscribesd to give a din-
ner to the men of their companies ; and among the Maltese
various societies have arranged that all the poor shall have •
substantial dinner : the effluent will take care of them-
selves ; so that in Malta I confidently believe every one of
her Majesty's subjects will be amply provided for on Christ-
mas Day.
The Am Is shining brightly, the air is warm and delicious,
bends are parading the streets, bells are ringing merrily, the
catholic churches are decorated gaily, the markets are
bountifully supplied with good meat sod rich and ripe fruit ;
the country is covered with green and beautiful verdure.
like the most promising spring in England ; sod the grass of
the fortifications is profusely interspread with buttercup, and
daisies, while nainerous butterflies appear to enjoy life as
they flutter about in the wean sun.
In the market, best beef, mutton, sad pork. fid. per pound ;
cocking pigs and turkeys, :Is. fel. to 4s. &i. tech ; best
oranges. 3d. the dozen ; melons, Id. each ; and other things
in proportion.

TUB ALLEGRO DEATH ?EOM VIOLENCE ON BOARD
Sair.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. H. IL Waitbew, the deputy
coroner, resumed an inquiry at the Lord Hood, Limebour,
touching the death of William Curti', aged 19, steward on
board the ship Martha Pope. who is alleged to have died
from the effects of a series of assaults committed upon bon
during the voyage from Hoodures. Captain Randle Stops,
the muter of the ship ; Louis Law, the chief mate ; and
Henry Francis, the boatswain, have reen arrested on suspi-
cion of having caused the dceth of the deceased, sod are to be
brought opal the Themes Police-court this day. A report
of their examination, when the main facts ware (aliened,
appeared in this journal on the 25th instant. Dr. Edmunds,
of Finsbury-circus, who made a post•mortan examivation of
the body, spoke of the appearances and the marks of vio-
leoce, sod that death might have resulted from congestion of
the brain sod lunge, which would in a material degree have
been accelerated by exposure to the cold, or improper DOU-
riabment, or dogging. Dr. Bristow, of St. Ttionlas's Hos-
pital, was then Idled by Mr. Lewis, who appeared for Cap-
tain Stone, and be expressed au opinion that the sores en the
.body bad hew produced by the de eased throwing himself
about in his berth while in a delirious state. He added that
if death arose from congestion of the lungs or brain, exposure
or a flogging would accelerate it. Mr. Lewis haying ad-
dressed
the
jury, contending that there was nothing in the
evidence to justify their gelidity thorn toanother tribunal,
the coroner summed up, and the jury, attar Leiner delibera-
tion some time, Framed a verdict of "Maribroglater
against Captain Stone, Law (the mate), and Francis oho
boatswain)."
SIDITECTED ATTEMPT TO POIRON IN NOTTS.—
What is supposed' to he au istrempt at poisoning, sad
which is at present involved in err mystery, occurred on
Wednesday last, at the village of Merton, four miles from
Nottingham, at the house of Mr. Itat•rbouse, chemist.
Mr. W. had given his servant girAiieing to leave his
service a week or two since. end on oda, lest he left
his residence for ChesterSeid, the Ott arriet Manila*
being io the house at the time. Mr. Waterhouse was ex.
pectad home the same evening, but did not return until
Thursday eight. When he got home, be went to the safe
where the provisions are kept, from a hicli be took
a cooked rages, and cut off some slier, but
not feeling Amory Dimwit, he gave thou to two
cats, which ernes in the house. Ina abort tines afterwards
both ills &slab were attacked with vomiting, end died k
an hoer sad a half in strong convolsioos. Polimeargeant
Dolby was called is, sod the dead animals were eftetrards
given to Superintendent Palethorpe, in order Wet tbeir
stomachs might be analysed. The 'errant left Mr. Water-
house's service on the night previous to her muter cod",
IWO*. The affair is undergoing a thorough investigation.

—•--
On Saturday evening, the annual dinner et the
Blond Valueleer Rifle Corps took place in the linbesitptlon-
rooms in that town, the principal guest being the Right
Hoe. K Haman M.P., one of the members for the
hereagli, who lad that afteemoo given a Whitworth rifle
for competition. In acknowledging the toast of hie health,
31.1% 11011/11111f, after some remarks upon the rite sad pro-
gram of the volunteer movement, said-If I sin asked
heir keg is this wicked war in America to be per-
mitted!-when are you to tecognhe the Southern
Seater!-when is European intervention of some kind
to take plane!-all I can say is that when that h to be
dean, and how it is to be done, is the most difficult close-
tion that any government can have to deal with. 1 for one
em not maims to precipitate their movement is any
dietetics. This I am meet anxious tor, that what-
ever the government may do they may do it at a time
when the nation will exhibit the same unanimity that it
has hitherto exhibited in support of all the policy that the
government has permed ; tied that whatever is dome shall
' mine with all the power and all the responsibility of •
government that has hitherto been moderate, and in its
moderation supported by the stational sentiment. lam oott
of those who feel that the position We campy at the present
moment, while it internees at power, also inCIIIMMIS our
responsibility. We are at this moment happily at peso,
with all the world ; but I believe we owe that peace, not to
one weakness, but to our etreatb-not to any concordats
we hammer* but to the mesas we hem exhibited in the
support at a just, and moderate, sad wile policy. (Hoir,
bear.) And what is the resell? Am ere weaker sibreed
Are we knemepalnef Ave we. liss.respeitalt Why. at
this mousiest I believe ail tie world m looking to England
in a manner is which the eyes of Europe never were so
turned before. Hely, deceived, or at keel disappointed I.
that monarch who went them us the champion of emend-
patios, now tars to England for hereympathy and support,
and England, as •Meeleg roan muted, taking a foremost place
amongst the nations of Europe,in remonstrating against
the policy of France, thwarted sod checked that policy ;
I and Italy, with the support of England, in a day when
opinions are more powerful than armies, is now mant-
ic)/ slowly bat surely to the realiestioa of bee dearest
hopes. (Cheers.) Greece, torn by revointioa, lathing
about for comfort and peace, turns to England, and
asks for an English prince. Sbe smote a conetitu-
%lomat asonareb, bore of a good stook, and nurtured is the
principles of freedom. (Cheers.) So again America, not-
withstanding the language of the most licentious press that
oiviliation has ever ktioww-cotwithsteading the conduct
of a government which lam anxious to separate from the
people, and not to take as the representative of the people
-the population and public of America, suffering them-
selves from their government and rebuking their press, have
sent their nutoificent contributions to the operatives of
England suffering from that war which has torn their own
country, telling us they wish us to motive it as a
tribute of brotherhood and peace. Such is our con-
dition abroad, and what is it at home! En=
will sot soon forget, and Europe will not goon
the spectacle. All classes have been tried by • crisis gush
as we never went through before, and the molt bee been
to unite all classes in bade of sympathy, making the poor
hal that they have friends in the rich, ant the rich feel
that the poor, instead of being, as formerly, • dangerous
class, are now the strength and 'aunty on which the na-
tion ma ever rely. (Cheers.) While such I. the strength
of our position, such is its responsibility ; sad I think we
have at this moment great reason to feel proud at the spec-
tacle we have presented to the world ; but oat the same time
our pride, just and proper es it is, has cause to be checked,
because we have felt as a nation how suddenly trials have
fallen upon us.
After a few further remarks, the right bon. gentleman
mowed his seat amidst loud appleues.

THE EMANCIPATION OP THE SLAVES IN
AMERICA.

Last night a public meeting, numerously at-
tended, was held at llipldeltee.hall. Islington, for the pur-
pose of expressing sympathy with the came of
emancipation in AIDOTICS. The meeting was well ai
and amongst those present were Dr. Mamie, Dr. Epps, Rev.
Mark Withs, Mr. Ell, Mr. M•Donaell, Mr. Moore, ka The
chair was occupied by Mr. Beals, and rawhides' tothe
following effect were canted ~1. That the aatimlavery
action of the Federal gevernamot during the year nom
closed merits the hearty approval of the British people,
and that this meeting declares its cordial sympathy with
the President and people of the United Stake, wbo,
with courage updated by difficulty and disaster, ometione
to struggle for the abolition of slavery either by milieu",
authority or by the adoption of • same like
that proposed in successive messages to Ocogrees.
2. That the meeting strongly recommeods the Emsocips.
Om Society to public support, as • means of developing
English aotmilavery sentiments, and promoting that hearty
reconciliation in the cause of humanity and freedom which
should subsist between this country and the people of the
Federal State., who, by their cooteibations, showed their
sympathy with the distreee of the people of Lancashire,now
suffering from the existence of slavery in the South." The
resolutions were spoken to by Dr. Epps, Mr. Bolton, Mr.
Slack, the Rev. Mr. Wilke, Mr. W. Wilk,, sad Mr. Lit.
An attempt at opposition was made by Ik. Riley sad Mr.
Wilson, who proposed and seconded an addition to the
first resolution, to the effect that the case of •
two would be beat promoted by a dissolutio=t
Americium Union, but the vast majority of the meeting was
enthusiastic in favour of the Northern cause, and the pro-
posed addition was rejected almost unanimously.