The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

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The following are the reports referred to :
" Velletri Viaduct, Jan. 18.
" Gentlemen,—Before you receive this you will have
beard, no doubt, of the dreadful murder of poor Jeremiah
Smith. The circumstances of the cue are as follows :
He and I, on returning after work to the town, did not go
etraight home, but went to tell the 14 Englishmen who left
here this mornieg to be ready to start by 7 o'clock. Smith
wee • very long time talking to one of the men, so I said to
him, ' Well, lam not going to stop any longer. Are you
meting? Yes, directly,' be Nod. I then walked home
alone, and but scarcely got my bat and coat off before up
came Miles Riley, saying that I was wanted directly.
He did not then tell me what wan the matter
(on account of Smith's wife being present), but
I on getting out of the house he told me Smith bad been shot
in the stomsch. On my arriving at the inn where Smith
was ',found him lying or leaning, op a farm. Mr. York,
withliaa sort, Mr. Boirlhardt, and several others trying to
pima& him to go upstairs and be undreamed. After •
treat deal of persuasion he west; and as his being undressed
we found a bullet had pared wader hie ribs and was still in
the intestines. The doctor said it was all up with him. Mr.
York talegispbed to Rome for an English doctor, but,
unfortunately. be could not cane. We broke the news to
his wife se well se we could, and in ball. an hour after the
accident she was with him. We remained up with the poor
fellow until 20 mieutes past 4 this afternoon (Saturday,
January 18), when be died, after having suffered, the most
awful agony for about 22 hours. The account I have of
the =DINT in which lines done is that, shortly after 1. left,
Smith, with his man (guard), who always went with him,
had just got outside the door of the iun, when a man passed
quickly by him, and shot as he went Part. Benjamin Gil-
rear (who was saying ' Good night' to Smith) as well as
Smith's man were so stunned by the suddenness of the
thing that they were quite powerless, and, of course, the
man ran as hard as he could as soon as be had shot
Smith. The only description that we can give the police
is that the man bad on a big cloak and • cap. Of
course, this description will be of no we. Smith,
however before he died, said that it was a man who bad
been discharged that very day, sad whose name is Goiiieppe
de Rossi. The polies have put the fellow in prison, and
they have also two or three others there on suspicion.
Mx. York's kindness WY beyond everything, both he and
his son being in the room with es the greater part of the
night. Mr. York bad the surgeon belonging to a French
regiment etatioaed bean to look at Smith at about 12 o'clock
in the sight, hot he gave ma no, or, at least, scarcely say,
hope of poor fellow's life being saved. You may mu-
gine such a dreadful and sudden murder as this, committed
in the meat public street, and at • time (8. or smarter past.
in the Grimily) when so many people ware about, has caused
the Englishmen that are here to be in a very desponding
data, espsnielly when we am
Poor Smith been often openb2Theiold that there are
more to go oh yet.warned
that his life woe in great danger, but said be was well
armed. At the time he was shot he had Mr. Wilson's re-
vs/Ter on, and carried a swraddick in his hand.-1 bag so
!grain, gentleness, youn truly. "B. S. Joss&
• Yeses. Kenuard Brothers."
"Items, Jan. 18.
"My Sirs,—l have the deep regret to cantina a
despatalt wileit dad you at the sassiest I write the let-
ter. ' Some Italian shot poor Smith last night in the streets
174111strr, and he died this al drum at 4 o'clock. I have
this deenset retuned from that ghee. We shall put the
man Os left in charge when at the Sasso last week to con-
duct the works till we bear from yes. There are font men
is prim, bat no one saw the msa, swept Smith, although
twenty people were clone to the spot ; so, no doubt, they
will *II soon he set at liberty. Death has thinned our ranks
fearfully 'tibia three meths. /house this scrawl, sad
believe me posse faithfally, "Jens 0. You.
" hears. Kennard Brothers."

EMBASSY FROM JAPAN.

For the last month or two rumours have been
current of • projected circular embassy from Japan to all
the European powers with whom that nation has concluded
treaties. At tint these reports appeared apocryphal, but
ifitarees
they pitted cosisteser and are now
Thema-
well-known scientifio O;iantalist, Colonel von
Siebold, has been officially requested by the governmeat of
Japan to undertake the retire organisation of the embassy.
and eves to amonspeny it to Europe. The first part of the
request he cheerfully acceded to, but to the latter part he
made some objections, alit would materially interfere with
his sciestifie occupation and practical observation of the
country and its people ; but according to the bat letter re-
celmdfrom him in this country he has consented to waive
his objections and will sesempany the mission to Earope.
On bra recoonessedatien, deny Jegaresee—many of them
primes, and others beieneeng to the ldghset native nib.
°racy, irod all et thanage el considemnisatitir
. a Übe* edeedirn asa
tetps—""alig=Nass• as manatees of the en
and Weed rem seer boss that his Velma
would nose
sh tanemateli resepin which was to
and its* le • beessabeg mew the splendid Brit=
steamer Lyee.mean, a Tema 300 feet keg, end with engines
of 400 horse power, now • Shanghai. sod which ought
be bought for about 70,0004. eoniders this
a mon correct and &pilled mama od rorward•
leg the embassy to lurwe thee proceeding as
common passengers by the °mimed Mao steamers, or
being dependent on the good dikes of in Baropeatt Power
for a pelage in a ship of war. If the calomel's prepoal is
accepted, the embassy would premed round Cape Horn
and after Machin/ at Rio de Janeiro, would in the first
instance land in England early in the summer, where they
will no doubt prove an interesting and amusing part of the
Lama International Exhibition, and thence go to Paris. After
having " done" France, they will visit Holland, than
Prussia, and lanly Russia, going upPetersburg by
the now opened railway, mid returning by a similar mode of
conveyance to this oountry, where the steamer would wait
their onkel to carry them back to their native country.
L after bay* seen a considerable part of Europa and fills
Wed ribs guard object of the embassy.—London crud
China Fdrospis.

Messrs. Rothschild have sent a donation of 201., •
in 'Wanks to their naval kind annual subscriptioo. to the
National Lifeboat Institution, to help it to keep up in a per-
manent state of efficiency Its dill lifeboat eetablisente.
A Novi:mar% EXPERlENCe.—Therewas one period
of my life when I °pondered every hour spent out of capi-
tals as time wasted—when, with exhilarated virita I
would return from truant loiterings under summer trees to
the smoke and din of London theroughfansa, I loved to bear
the ring of my own tread on the hard pavement. The de-
sire to compete and combat—the thirst far excitements
opening cue upon the other in the upward march of an op. -
posed eareer—the study of man in his thickest haunts—the
heart's warm share in the passions whieh the mind clear
front their inebriety, paused to analyse—these gave to me,
as they give to most active men in the unflagging energies of
youth, a delight in the vista of gas-lannia and the bubbab
of the great mart for the interchange of ideas. But *6w, I
love the country ea I did when a little child, before I had
admitted foto my heart that anthitioa which is the first flame
lemon we learn at school. Is it part)" that those trees
never remind us that we are growing oW! Older than we
are, their hollow stems are eovaed with rejoicing leaves.
The birds build amidst their Warming branches rather than
in the lighter shade of the sapling. Nature has no voice
that wounds the self-love ; her coldest wind nips no
ions affection. She alone has the rune face in our age as
in our youth.—Sir E. B. Lytton, in Blackwood's Maya:int
for February.
SHATIIeII CLODS rat CAMILDA. —Large circular
buildings may be seen at Quebec, Montreal, and Toronto, '
with an opee arena in the centre, and tiers of sesta running
round the sides, provided also with gas, and needed and
frowns in the same way that we have tifflicribest Them w
the skating aloha, where, morning afternoon, and evening.
bdire sad geallernea may be ems combining the gaiety and
evolutions or a ball•rown with the out-dour skill mud acti-
vity et Si most accomplished performers on the Seines- •
tine. The officers not unfrequently enliven the scene with
the music of a military band, and the Usantif ally-executed
egagunz.c reewily on. Under cover, aid in a limited space,
tins, of course, becomes the fashion, and tyros, •
male and female, may be seen at peep of day hurrying to
the rink, hoping that the wriggles end costortioos which
preoede the acquirement of that ease sad apgarent absence
of tom which mark a fiaished skater may escape the ob- ,
werwation of moie experieneed osesnoisseim Ths
withent adeptiag an oltra-Bloomer neatness, drams for Ike
miatiaa, end seem not unaware that the natural
at tie airweammt enhances the personal charms for
Lower Cbmalblie are so justly celebrated. Four moetheel
errata tee army yeer render the use of stake quite satera.,, •
sal is Caned* and ragged little urchins may even be win
"striking eat* *lan the broad pavements of the tows
tide's feetesed Mt to their feet with swiss, which one
eimelleisted es Ile backs of reavieg4nivea. 31i
*IOW TIS amnesia fro m the bays and
sTaZZ tit 17ppar naiad.are crowds( wttb • "
Wises, &MOM GEO •11111.161•116 annessi by thew
i disbrabar• end nakeisty.—Osrnhili braysine tae . 6
riga.