The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY YONING, JANUARY 2& 4863.

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LATEST INT ELLIGENOE.
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OSBORN]; JAN. 19.
The Queen walked out this morning &mom-
paaisd by Princess Helena.
Prince Louis of Hesse went to London to-day attended
by Captain Von Westernslier.
The Bishop of Worcester bar lefbOaborne.

ninu.
Film of papers from Roothay to the 27th De.
oember, and from Calcutta to the 18th December,
have come to hand. The Times of hsiio, of the
27th Dec., says :
Is oomequenoe of the unsettled state of akin in Raj-
pootana, his excellency Sir Hugh Rose has thought it ad-
visable to place a field force at the disposal of the political
went there.

A deputation consisting of Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Mr.
Alderman Lynes, President, Mr. Alderman Browett, Vice-
President, Mr. H. R. Phillips, Member of the Council, and
Mr. Beery J. Davis, Secretary of the Chamber of Corn-
nisros,Toventry, had an interview with the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade,
respecting the statistical registration of the imports' of
silk ribbons.

Mr. G. 11. Yule, of the Bengal Civil Service, and lately
officiating u Chief Commissioner in Oude, has been ap-
pointed to succeed the late Colonel Cuthbert Davidson as
resident at Hyderabad.

By advioes received from Herat up to the 17th November
it appears that the Ammer Doet:Sfahomed has made up his
mind to invest Herat throughout the winter, and Sultan
Jan has been deserted by some of his troops. The Amer
his rejected the overtures of pesos made to him by Sultan
Jan.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com-
minim for the Exhibition of 1.851 was held yesterday at the
Privy Council-othoe. There were present Earl Granville,
Lard Gemstone, Lord Tauttoo, the Right Hon. W. R
Gladdens, M.P., Sir A. Spearman, Bart., Sir B. M. Peto,
Bart, M.P., Sir C. W. Dilke, Bart., Mr. T. F. Gibson,
Mr. Thring, and Mr. Edgar Bowring,C.B. (secretary).

The last adviom from Central Asia are to the 24th
November. Mr. Esitwick is reported to have arrived at
Korea, on she Persian frontier. The ruler of Herat bee
fired &feu deices, alleging that a form was marching to his
aid from Mushid, by order of the Shah of Persia; bat this
is regarded as a mere ruse de guerre by the Amen Dart,
Mahamed. Herat is provisioned for a year.
His Excellency Sir William Mansfield left Bombay for
Surat on the 15th hist, on hie tour of inspection in Gummi.
Bajpootans, and Maws. The third session of the Bombay
Legislative Council commenced its sittings on the 15th imt
the Hoe. Mr. H. L. Anderson, chief secretary to govern-
ment, has been sworn in a member of it.

A deputation from Si. Pancras ;ad Miryleboue vestries
on the wubjeet of the powers given to the Electric Telegraph
comp►nies by private bills bad yesterday as interview with
the President of the Board of Tiede. The deputation was
introduced by Mr. Haney Lewis, M.P.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yester-
day afternoon from Hematites Castle, Cheater.

lfr. ;Miller, M.P., Mr. Provost Lindsay, and Colonel
Macgregor from Leith, and Mr. Waketorcl, parliamentary
agent, had yesterday an interview with the Right Hon. T.
Miser Gibson, at the Board of Trade.

Despitehes were received yesterday at the Colonial-odiee
from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Hong, the Australian
Colonies, the North American Provinces, Gibraltar, Ber.
muds, and from the Lord High Cooramissioner of the 'Guinn
Islands. Despatches were met to the Governors of the
Mauritius, Malls, end Lotman.

A commercial treaty has bola concluded with the King of
Asa, by the government of Indic, for the passage through
his territory, duty fres, of an merchandise to and from
British Burmsh and China.

Mr. William Brownlow, an amidatitoonsmiaMooer in
Aiwa, has sweetly bad a narrow swipe from being awes-
abetted by lons fanatic., who attempted his life.

His Royal Highness tie Prince Louis of Hesse
honoured the Haymarket Theatre tut night with his

His Excellency the Began Minister haves Port-
Ised.plsos to-day for New Lodge, Windsor Forest.

The Duke of Cleveland bee been entertaining a
large family Gird* and friends at Baby Collie during the
Christmas holidays, Moinding—Vimonat and Visionstess
Boyne, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Mr. ad Lady
Auguste. Milbank., Mr. Vane /Menke, Mr. Henry Mil-
bank*, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Henry Forester, Mr. Merritt,
M.P., sad Mrs. Marritt, Major-General Stanhope, Sir John
Hippealliy, Mr. Vane, mid Miss Augusta Somerset.

The Bishop of Oxford hae been entertaining
oompany et Caddied= Pekoe durieg the pest week.
amongst the oorapeny were the High Sheriff of Oxford-
shire sad Yee hleckencis. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Heine=
ley, &a._

The Earl and Conntees of Malmratetry, who have
been receiving company at Herat Court, Riots, will rearm
to town on Monday next.
Lord Broughton has been reoeiving a succession
of visitors during the post week, at his mat in Wiltshire.
A correspondent writing from Pau on the 15th,
nap :—" Anne( our principal English visitors are Lads
Howth, Dytevor, and Sudety, with their famines, Arch-
aises Gould. the Hos. Ralph Harhard, Maier Leith,
V.C., Viennese Lifford sad family, the Hos. Coked
Maxwell, IL P., the Omens de Malfort, the Hon. Hrs.
Newton Lane, the Hsu. Waite Spencer and family,
Lient,Oakesi Pryos, Mr. end Mrs. &hooky, Sir R. and
lady Strachey, Mr. and the Hes. Mrs. Vsaaittart, Gotoral
Rootlike Vetch, Sir A. West, and aa unusually large
camber of American, Bassist, sad Fee* families of die-
thicket."

A letter to the Times from Nice informs us of a
frightful sonde s& "On Widow:lay • grand bell was given
by an English lady to the Log el Bever* and among the
guests were Contain, Mrs., and NW Mary Johnston. Gor-
don, the latter • lovely girl of nineteen. Osptain Gordon,
being • invalid, left early, and on leaving was upset in his
carriage, but without injury. Mrs. and Mies Gordon left
shout belf-part 2, end the night being wet and eold, Miss
Gordis went to the fin, which bad been kept up for their
veleta. She took off her brambies, ke., and put them on
the !Verlag»; she then turned round, and the bottom of her
dress caught fire, the fireplace being • low French one. She
rushed to her mother's room, which wee some distance off,
and in • innate both were in flames. Captain Gordon was
roomed, and rushed in, receiving some burns about the legs.
Mrs. Johnston. Gordon is severely iejored, but her ease is
not considered quite hopeless, but poor Miss Gordon died to-
day at 12. She does not appear to have suffered much pain
after the fat, but souk under the shook to the nervous
system, her body being Jovially burnt."

_ .
ealitnani, at the conclusion of a notice of Mr.
Dickees's reading at the Embassy, says :—" There Inaba! a
single drawback upon the pleasure of the sonde, manly,
that it was to he maimed to one. The holing wee, indeed,
general, and we may add that out of doors • very sanest
desire km been manifested that Yr. Dickens would, leaving
broken the ice, go one step further, sad add to the obliga-
tion be has confen•d by decode' another erasing to the
work of bwe►olenw so happily conimaDoed. In such • case
it might be worth oonaiderstkm as to whether the oast of
admission might not be lowered, for 20 francs is consider-
ably beyond the Paris tariff ; sad as this soiree would be
Wended to gratify the namstems Preach admirers of the
illmstrto•s oo•alist, • talk capable of soomamodatiog • much
larger auditory might be desirable. We throw out this
hint in obedience to a disks ray poseally expressed, and
to several oontspendsats who have nekton to on on the
subject."

The Emperor Napoleon went on Friday on a
shooting excursion to Fontainebleau, aocompenied by
Prince Napoleon, the two Primer Musk, the Duke of
Hamilton, the Prince de la Moskowa, General Fleury, and
the Marquis& Toulongeon. The sport wee excelleet, 1,200
heed of pme being laid low, of which hie Majesty killed
more than 300. The Emperor retuned to Paris in the
evening.

The Bishop of Orleans has published a. pastoral
co behalf of the French operatives. "As for me," he says,
"I wish to do justice to all. The prim, a dangerous in-
strument of the passions, is also, as it has just shown, not
osly in catholic jourrods bat also in others, a powerful in-
strument for good. Its leads its resounding voice to mis-
fortune ; what we say within the walls of the temple it
sproads every day in all directions through the world. In
England, where It is more fres, aided by correspondence,
=Way, sad oommittees whom nothing fetters, it has
produeed, by the holy agitation of charity, immense re-
sults; lu Prawn it ha done all that it could."

The Unita Italians, of Mika, states that a
petition is now being Mimed by the ladies of TiriOIII towns
of Italy, praying that the panistunent of death may be
abolished.

According to letters from Vienna, the Emperor
Austria, having caught mkt, a hunting trip to Adele-
berg, which be intaodad to mats, has hem oonotermaaded.

M. Oninot has arrived in Paris from Val-Richer,
to per the reniainier of the winter, and publish the fifth
vellums el his ameeeirs.

IL Thies, it is said, has refused the offer made
him by the electors of Setot-Jaaa d'Aagfly (Charted*.
lan risme), to bring him forward as their candidate at the
next eleatiose.

"A cross of a new Order," says the Prate,
"may be setta la the Calorie Moutpensier of the Palma
Royal. It I that of Rada= 11., King of Medawar.
He hes fast given en ardor is Auk for 12,000 fr. worth of
this atiss, which has seven points. is surmounted by a royal
crows. sad suspended by • red ribbon with transversal
stripes of • darter shack."

Notice of the marriage of M. Lafontaine, the
well insoina Free& actor, and Millie. Victoria, has been,
during the last three days, posted up at the church of Ste.
Eugenie. It in also stated that the transfer of those two
artistes to the Ilieitre Fruicain is decided on, and the fact
has been notified to the Gynonese Theatre, where they are
now performing.

The Austrian Ministers bare accepted an invita-
tion to attend a ball given by the Cowoordia, a society of
Jourealtete and literary men of the Austrian capital. The
reply of M. de Schrnerliog was :—" I shall be most happy
to once more piss an evening with the journalists of
Vienna, and you my rely on my being present."
Aocord tog to the last accounts from Tasmania,
the legislature there had rescinded the vote of 5,0001.
towards the marine survey of the colony, and it was feared
that, as a consequence of the rescinding of the vote, Limits-
met Brooker, the imperial hydrogrepher engaged in M.
ming the coast there, will discontinue his labours.

EXPRESS FROS .PARIS.

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(Thom on owe couseraimmie.)
PARIS, Wommx Illyzarnra.

The Pattie says it has reoeived a "communica-
tion" of the following despatch from New York,
" confirming " the news of the fall of Puebla :
News, arrived okt San Antonio, announces the defeat of
Otoeral Ortega by 5,000 men of our advanced guard, spinet
25,000 blexima troops. Gemini Foray was at Puebla,
waiting for reinforcement.. 6,000 French had landed at
Tampioo. . . .

If the above news is authentic it is very extra-
ordinary that the Patric should have the monopoly
of it. The other equally devoted and generally
more favoured journals, La Prance, the Pays, and
the Nation, have no such communication, and care-
fully avoid, as if knowing it to be untrue, the
slightest reference to the news of the taking of
Puebla which was current yesterday.
The France laments the death of Said Pacha, as
being a serious check to French policy in Egypt.
It says :
Ismail Pacha, the new viceroy, does not share the ideas
of his predecessor ; he passes for being entirely devoted to
English influence. .

Here, then, is an additional grievance against the
perfidious Palmerston. Greece and Turkey will
not only listen to him, but even implore him to
advise them, in spite of the best concerted plans to
the contrary, and now Egypt is to be seduced by
the voice of the charmer.

I don't know whether there is any connexion be-
tween the above news and the following paragraph
in the France :

We are assured that Franca is about to take official
possession of Obok, a point on she Red Sea, VW the strait
of Bab-el-Mandeb. The steam frigate Herrohme will be
charged with this mission. Obok is very well situated for
• ooal station and harbour, and the works necessary for
preparing it for this destination wil' shortly be executed.
The Prerie fears that Said Pacha's death may
have a prejudicial effect upon the Isthmus of
Suez Company, wham bonds for 45 millions,
constituting a private debt of the Viceroy, were
"about to be" converted into negotiable secu-
rities.

"This town is one of those pretty little ball Italian
half Swim towns which line the north-weat shores of the
Into Maggiore; but, not being minutely described in
Murray, it is comparatively little known to the English
tourist, who hurries past it to the more fashionable
Baveno or Belgirate. As the steamer floats past, the
traveller will notice • clean-looking town, backed by a
chain of 1101 s, the most striking point in the picture being
the cupola of a fine old cathedral-looking church.
It is of this building that I have to weak.
The church of Ls Madonna del Sesso, with ita dome
towering over the other buildings, its coloured marbled.
and its quaint old frescoes by Loini, is the one sight of
the little city. On Sunday, the 9th inst., there was pre.
sent in that church a great congregation. composed, as is
usually the case in this part of Europe,
. almost entirely of
women. The men lounging about the puma pointed out to
one another the enormous quantity of snow which had
fallen during the last six days and nighta in an almost
unbroken column. The landscape glittered in its white
covering, and even the buildings of the city looked like
a scene in some fantastic play. Suddenly there was •
dead, heavy fall. ' Evidently,' they said, ' another
distant avalanche ; and then • scream and • murmur of
great horror, which spread through the quiet streets. All
rushed to the spot, and found • scene which the letters I
bare seen describe as horrible past all conception. The
dome which covered the body of the church had never been
cleared of the mostantly-falling snow, and the immense
weight accumulated was too great for the streneh of the
worn-out building. The whole dome gave way and fell on
the congregation, then kneeling in prayer. In that position
fifty.three female corpses were found, after the ruins had
been cleared by the intrepid bravery and the untiring labour
of the inhabitants. One female, a bride of 20 years of
age, named Bono, was alone extricated alive, and was
carried to her home with 'some hopes of recovery,' says my
informant, but she had broken one arm and both bee legs.
1 One old man alone perished among the fifty-three wanes
who fell victims in this awful ruin.

The great Neapolitan lady who was lately arrested
at Isoletta on suspicion of being an emissary with
despatches for Francis 11., seems to be under the
special protection of the French government. Her
name is Princess Sciarra Barberini d'Andrea, Mar-
chioness of Pesoopagano. The Prance, which yes-
terday circulated the false news that she " had
been released" at the request of France, now makes
it a complaint that she is " at this hour in prison,"
and thus confirms the telegraphic statement that,
in answer to a demand for her release, sent from
Rome to Naples by General Montebello, General
Lamarmora said that the law must take its course.
This lady, who is a Neapolitan, bat habitually re-
sides i;Rome, was formerly a very advanced liberal,
but has lately become a legitimist. During a recent
visit to Naples it was remarked that she received
more numerous visits than were compatible with the
suppositions that her visitors were merely private
friends. In consequence of information received,
the police arrested her at Isoletta, on her way to
Rome, and they found upon her letters in cypher
which are supposed to be addressed to Francis IL,
and a letter in Italian, not ostensibly addressed to
anybody, but which, from its contents, is thought
to be manifestly meant for him. The France, which
has no doubt special reasons for taking an interest
in this lady, devotes a whole column to her cause,
and argues about the weakness of the proofs
against her with a virtuous indignation which is
quite refreshing, and calculated to make one
forget that there is no such thing as a
habeas corpus in France. In very threatening
language the France insinuates that her whole crime
was that she was the bearer of a passport "signed
by the French civil and military authorities." Wby
she should have had occasion for such an extraor-
dinary protection, the France does not explain.
What pretext of jurisdiction Gen. de Montebello,
the commander of the French army of occupation
of Rome, could have in the case of a Neapolitan
lady arrested by the King of Italy's police in his
own dominions, does not in any way appear. The
France, however, says that the French government
is "moved" at the occurrence, and has sent instruc-
tions to Turin to "demand legitimate explana-
tions."

A Naples letter of Jan. 13 states that in con-
nexion with the above affair the Duke de Cauca-
lends. and M. Roberti, who was tutor to Francis
11., have been ermined.
It is stated that the Imperial Prince is to be
emancipated from petticoat government next
month, and placed under the care of a tutor. I
am not able to mention the name of the gentleman
selected for this responsible poet, but it is positively
said that he is not a bishop.

The following bit of amusing toadyism appears
in the Nation :

The Emperor will be the hugest contributor to the new
tax on homes and carriage. His Majesty has made the
lepl return within the time prescribed. He has declined
to claim exemption from the tax on the ground that his
horses and carriages are necessary for the discharge of his
august functions
Marshal Canrobert's marriage with Miss Flora
Meodonald will be solemnised to-morrow at the
British Embassy, and also (the spouses being of
different religions] at the chapel of the Senate. The
Rev. Mr. Swale will perform the protestant ser-
vice, and the AbbtS Castaing, who was Marshal
Canrobert's chaplain intim Crimea, has been selected
by him to officiate at the Roman catholic altar.
When the news of the marshal's approaching mar-
riage was tint known in Paris, it was taken for
granted that this old bachelor of fifty-six, who has
been looking out for a wife ever since the end of
the Rusaiaa war, had secured a very rich English
heiress. His friends, however, give out the lady's
fortune is not large, and that he is, in fact, making
a love match.

...'l[S;eecSi;;;eicsiii;e7entiet have been great ere•
lames, somewhere, when, after nearly a week's IseesseaS
fall, the snow was still left to eccumulate on the tottering
cupola of a mediaeval church. Fifty-three women have
perished ; bat imagine wh►t would here beet the &strew
t4on had this catastrophe happened on use of the great fes-
tivals of the church. There would not have been fifty,
but five hundred corpses, now recently buried in the Gimps
Sank. of that little town."

M. Horace Vernet's dying injunctions that his
funeral should be private were not exactly carried
out. There was, indeed, none of that military and
official display which he especially deprecated ; but
a large crowd of admirers followed the hearse from
the Institute of France, in which be died, to the
church of St. Germain des Pris, and afterwards to
Montmartre Cemetery. The Emperor sent one of
hie chamberlains, the Marquis de Grioourt, to re-
present his Majesty as a mourner. Marshal
Valliant, the minister of the Emperor's household,
General Lawofistine, the commandant of the Na-
tional Guard, and a great many eminent repre-
sentatives of art, scienne, and letters were present.
The chief mourners were the two sons of the late
Paul Delaroche, who are grandsons of the deceased,
and M. Hippolyte Leoomte, the historical painter,
who is his nephew.
The Bourse has not been affected either by the
death of Said Pacha, or the increase of 1 per cent.
in the interest of Treasury Bonds. Rent. rose
25a. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing firm at
70fr. sc. and 70fr. 10c. Mobilier rose Slfr. 25c.,
and the Italian Loan 200. The Southern and
Lyons Railways rose Mr. each.

The Div-ussione of Turin publishes • letter from
Madame Ristori, announehig her intention to perform at
Naples one night for the benefit of the sufferers from
briSafifiefiL

PRARPTIL CALAMITY AT LOCARNO. I EXTRAORDINARY GALE.—LOSS OP LIPP.
A correspondent, writing from the neighbour-
(TRIM DAY.)
hood of the Lego Maggiore, gives the following account of
a terrikde oreurrence which hoe recently taken place et
Locarno

A gale of extraordinary severity raged over the
metropolis this moaning. At 11 o'clock, when the tide wet
at its lowest point, a singular some presented itself betsere
Westminster and Hozgerfont bridges. From an early hour,
eommeaciag, in fact, shortly after midnight, the gale
'mounting almost to • hurricane, raged from the mutt
west, accompanied by • heavy rain, during the night. Tbe
consequence was that the natural run of the tide was greeri,
accelerated by the whet The water was, so to ep„,l,
pushed out of the river, and to sack an extent was this tlb
cue that the part of she river in question was dry to ao
almost unexampled degree. Several islands of gravel
considerable extent nauseated themselves, and at one t
so less than four stamen—two of the Iron boats mad