The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

THE OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 4.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam
ship Ripm, Captain Haskell, sailed hence to-day with the
mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden,
Ceylon, India and China. The number of pusengers pro-
ceeding to the East by this mail is 196, of whom 127 em-
barked from this port, including Dr. Irwin, Captain "Millie,
Captain Hicks, Lieutenant Campbell, Assistant-Surgeon
Scott, Ensign Grant, Captain Allertun, Lieutenant-Colonel
Hawkins, Lieutenant Elliott, Rev. Mr. Hopkins, Ensign
King, Lieutenant Annul. Ensign Coventry, and Sir C.
and Lady Trevelyan. The remainder will proceed vii Mar-
seilles. The Ripon takes out on freight 900 boxes specie,
value 267,927/. 16s. Bd., for the following ports, via., Alex-
andria—. Sovereigns, 21,2751. ; jewellery, &c.,1121. Ceylon—
Soverelgim, 6,0001. ; watches, Ac., 661. Madras—Dar sneer,
19,950/. ; gold coin, 3,4301. ; gold lace, watches, he., I,l=l.
Calcutta—Bar silver, 105,1001. ; silver plate, 5001. ; watches,
jewellery, He., 8601. Singapore—Dollar', 27,4761. ; sove-
reigns, 6,000/. ; watches and jewellery, 2461. Hong Koag
—Dollars, 37,1261. 16s. Bd. ; silver coin, 131. ; watches, Ac.,
5751. Foo-chow—Dollars, 6,8221. ; and for Shanghai—Dol-
lars, 31,9221. ; and watches, jewellery, &c., 343/. The
Kip= also taker out a full cargo of general merchandise.
The Union Steam Company's Mail steamer Norman,
Captain Davis, sailed hence to-day for the Cape of Good
Hope, Port Natal, Ascension, /cc. She took out upwards of
40 passengers, and a very full cargo. The Norman will call
off Plymouth to embark her mails.

THE NEW INDIAN FINANCE MINIMTER.—The
following letter has been received at the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce, from Sir Charles Trevelyan :
" Grosvenor-crescent, December 3, 1862.—Sir,—I have bad
the pleasure of receiving your letter stating that the
directors of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester have
unanimously resolved to present me with an address on my
appointment as Financial Member of the Council of the
Governor-General of India, and requesting me to name a
convenient time for receiving it. I feel highly honoured by
the resolution of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce,
and knowing how much the interests of our manufacturing
districts are bound up with those of India, I should have
had much satisfaction in conferring with the directors upon
any subjects of present importance, but this is rendered rut-
porible by my having to embark at Southampton with my
family to-morrow morning. Happily the public discussions
relating to India have been so frequent and ample of late a
that a substantial agreement has been arrived at as to the
wants of that great country and the principles upon which
it ought to be governed • and I shall have the privilege of
co-operatingu • member of Lord Elgin's government in
giving practical effect to plans in which the interests of
England and India ars equally cotioerned.—l have the
honour to be, sir, yOIIT obedient humble servant, C. E.
TREVELYAtt.—Hugh Fleming, Esq., secretary to the Chem.
ber of Commerce, ester.'

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.—At seven o'clock Last
evening all business was suspended, and the partisans
of the two candidates were parading the streets vial
songs stuck in their hate and roses in the button-
holes of their costa. The Lord Mayor was canvassing
in his private state carriage. The Mayor of the town, Mr.
F. Perkins, and the ex-Mayor, Mr. d. T. Tacker, are the joint
chairmen of Captain Mangles' committee ; and Mr. Lamb,
the superintending engineer of the Peoinsular and Oriental
Company, is the chairman of the Lord Mayor's committee.
LETTER BY THOMAS CARLVLZ.—In the Glasgow
Morning Journal a sort of feu d'esprit appeared, written
in imitation of the style of Mr. Thomas Carlyle, and intro-
duced in an editorial note, which stated that its " peculiar
style rendered it unnecessary to say from what . distin-
guished literary person' ^ it proceeded. Mr. Robert Duncan,
Ratbo, having sent the article to Mr. Carlyle. with a vote
directing attention to it, has received the following answer
to his communication :—" 5. Cheyne-row, Chelsea, London,
Nov. 29, 1862. and human patience are too
valuable to allow of any word from me, beyond the strictly
necessary, on that excerpt you have been sogood as send me
from the Glasgow Morning Journal for November 26, in
the belief that it is not mine. Rest well assured that it is
not ; that I have had no share in it more than the dead or
the tinhorn ; and that if the impertinent blockhead who did
write it could be laid hold of and put into the treadmill, or
horsewhipped (in moderation), I should think that it might
be useful to himself and others. You are at perfect liberty
to publish this wherever you see good.—ln baste, I remain
yours, with thanks, T. CABLYLL—Robert Duncan, Esq.,

LATHE WASHINGTON SENATE IN DANGER.—The
New York Sue says :—" A leak in • large tank, holding
eighteen thousand gallons of water, located over the Senate
chamber, in Wuhington, was discovered in sufficient time
to prevent the chamber from being flooded."
SOUTHERN NEWS IN SOUTHERN LANGGAGE.
A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer writes as
follows : '' Without giving General Jackson's exact where-
abouts, I will only say, for the benefit of those interested in
the fate of this place, that ' Old Stonewall' still amain-
passeth ns, one of his wings extending so near the Sodom
of Virginia (Martinsburg) that loyal men can still dumber
there in security. The kansas ruffian, Geary, is at Harper's
Ferry, occasionally seeding out a band of pilferers to
frighten old women and children, and steal end destroy the
few remaining necessaries of life from the helpless and de-
fenceless. A dash was made by a band of these outlaws •
day or so since into Charlestown. The male citizens were
arrested and locked up in one of the churches, whilst the
town was searched, and everything that could be convesi-
ently carried or driven away was collected and taken to
the Ferry ; the widow's last cow or only hog was driven
away by the unfortunate negro'', forced from their homes
by these same God-forsaken scoundrels, who have already
made desolate so many hearthstones in Loudon and Pimplier
counties. None of the citizens were taken away, an far u
I can learn, and the town is once pin free of their loath-
some presence. Jackson would render himself still more
dear to the people of the valley, if it were possible for him
to be more so, could he once more summit this plague
spot (Harper's Fury), and bag this precious lot of John
&mask"