The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

HELIGOLAND.

HELIGOLAND. Ocr. 19.
The sum of 40,0001. in sovereigns was landed here
ls•t week from the steamer Newcastle, from England
after which she proceeded on her voyage to Tanning.
The islanders now hope that no further delay will 1 •
made in paying them the value of their potato land,
tsken from them to build the wooden barracks on for
the German Legion, and arbitrarily fixed at a Fanny
per square foot.
Her Majesty's steam transport Perseverance, which
has been sent to the Baltic with a number of Russian
pt;soners exchanged, having performed this service,
hes arrived here, for the purpose of embarking about
500 men of the German Legion, for conveyance to
England. The embarkation will probably take place
to-morrow.
There appears to be some hitch about the comple-
tion of our new water filtrating machine. The works
are stopr,d, and it is scarcely likely to bs finished
and set at work before the commencement of the
winter.

SYDNEY, JIILT Is.
We have at this moment a double opportunity of ,
communicating with England, by the Walter Hood, i
a favourite clipper, which has established her fame
es a fast sailer, and the Marco Polo, of equal cele-
brity. The former sails to-day direct for London ;
• 'ie latter is at Melbourne, awaiting a mail from
Sydney, to be forwarded a few dais hence. Nume-
rous bets are made as to which ship will arrive home
first.
' In so:oedema with the recommendation of Sir
William Denison, in his recent spc .?ch on opening the
session of the Legislative Council of New South
Wales, several important measures are before the
house, one of which is a proposal to borrow a sum of
two millions, on the credit of the territorial revenue,
for the construction of railways; and in connexion
with this object it is intended to engage a competent
person to undertake the general direction of the
colonial railways, at a salary of 1,2001. to 1,4001. per
annum.
The operations of our new Mint (that "expensive
toy," as it has been rightly termed by a member of
the Legislative Council, for it has already cost near
upon 100,0001) have commenced by the issue of some
thousands of sovereigns of native growth and coinage.
As colonial bank notes pass as readily as gold, and
English gold coin is in no lack here, Feople reason-
ably ask in what consists the benefit of the colonial
coinage, and if 50,0001. for the new buildings and
some 20,0001. per annum more in salaries is not pay-
ing dearly for our whistle.
In order to meet the increased expenditure, in a
state of public revenue nearly on a balance as to Dr.
and Cr., an alteration of the Customs tariff is contem-
plated. The import duty on tobacco is to be increased
to the extent of 50 per cent.; upon the other articles
of the present tariff the increase is 100 per cent., with
the exception of dried fruits—in these the present
duty is id. per lb., end this it is proposed to raise to
2d. The articles that have been added to the tariff
are es% vinegar, soap, oandler, and timber. Upon
salt the duty is put at 2s. per cwt.; on 'Aurorae, is.
per gallon; on soap, 4s. per cwt.; on candles, 2d.
pr lb.; on timber, in bulk or sawn, 2s. per 100 cubic
fat; on shingle 3 and laths, 2s. per 1,000. Publicans'
licenses are to be increased in the annual fee from
301. to SOL ; night and billiard licenses are to be
doubled; and, as some protection to the publican
against the interferona of the wholesale dealer in
spirits, a fee of 301. is to be imposed upon the license
issued to the latter.
Operations in the articles affected by the new tariff
have constituted the principal business transactions
of the last month. The warehouses are still labour-
ing under a plethora of English goods, which find
vent but slowly, and at prices that in most instances
barely °over freight and other charges.
The Bev. Dr. lone (a dissenting minister, member
of the Case of Bargees', and a member of the
Legislative Cowell) has been sentenced to Biz _oath'

imprisonment, fora libel on Mr. Stuart, manager d
the Union Bank of Australia.

In my last I mentioned the fact that mangy pest
heretofore engaged in the search for gold had aim.
domed that object for the equally remunerative and
beneficial pursuit of cultivating the soil. It is no left
worthy of remark that the vast congregation of per,
sons at the places of auriferous deposit has so entirely
changed the appearance of these localities, that where,
only five or six years ago, nature reigned in tinei,
tive solitude amid scrub, and bush, and rock, the
habitation of the kangaroo and emu, towns sad ni.
loges of no mean pretension have risen up es by gi
enchanter's wand. Ballarat, instead of being only a
gold field, is become a city of some magnitude, with
roomy warehouses, costly shops with plejeljan
windows, taverns, churches, chapels, theatres, sad
assembly rooms ; and last, not least, a gnat*
school, in connexion with the church, for boys of the
better class, fitting instruction being given to leek
of the youth as can be made available for the aoin
Ballarat promisee to become the capital of the dig.
ging*, and is to have its representatives in thelegja.
lative Council. The decencies as well as the comforts
of life are observed with marked improvement, sed,
moreover, the dead are no longer to remain se.
buried, their bones blanching in some galley or bash,
but have the rites of Christian burial.

A notice was posted at the Hall of Com
Melbourne, on the 21st alt., stating that a splendid
gold nugget, weighing 1,060 ounces, and vslotd at
4,8001., had been found at Blackman'. Lead, Mary.
borough. It was taken from a depth of only 6 bee,
in a spot which had been abandoned as worked out,
The fortunate discovery caused a rush to the plea.
and other nuggets, of 1511 a. and 45 ounces, have since
been found there.
Notwithstanding the general prosperity of them
colonies, many immigrants who have left their esfive
country in the hope of bettering their csndition are
in a state of most deplorable destitution at Melbourne.
They are almost wholly persons unskilled either is
agriculture or the mechanical arts, and consist chiefly
of clerks, shopmen, tutors, &0., of which classes many
more have arrived out than can obtain emplolment.
In numerous instances these unfortunates have been
found dying in hovels unfit for human habitation; in
tome cues the destitute and sick father hie been
compelled to witness his wife or children, hitherto
unused to hardship, resorting to repulsive expedients,
such as collecting rags and bones, or imploring
charity, in order to raise the means of keeping body
sod soul together. Their privations in a toreign
land, where they were led to expect competence, if
not affluence, are rendered the more acute and gain.
ful by the memory of home comforts unwisely and
too hr.tily quitted. It is to be hoped that the deplo.
rable state of these poor aliens will have the effect of
deterring all persons but mechanics and field abate+.
era from seeking employ in these colonies, nolem the,
are bound for the gold fields. Miss Catherine Bayes
(who has returned to Australia from India) has kindly
riven a concert at Melbourne for the relief of the
distressed immigrants, which realised nearly 4001. A
subscription is also being raised for their relief.
At Geelong, as at Melbourne, the rush of immi.
grants not required is Australia to the extent sup.
plied has caused severe distress to the unemployed.
The term is new in colonies which will not be
deafly populated for a century to come; but it ii
evident that brawny arms and manual toil are eke
demanded for the work to lie performed. halloo
tual culture and the luxuries of life are in the dis.
tance. The inhabitants of Geelong have matte
' originate a fund for the relief of the existing dishes
On the sth insr, two men who were convicted of
murder at the last sittings of the Sydney criminal
Court were executed at the gaol. In pursuance ot
recent act of the Legislative Council the awful one•
mony took place in the prison yard, in presages d
l the sheriff and other authorities. One of the mile.
I factors, named Wilcox, was found guilty of the
I murder of a woman with whom he cohabited, sad
t whose throat he cut whilst he was under the inflame
of drink. The other (Rogers) was the perpetrator of
one of the most atrocious murders ever recorded in
r the annals of crime. Whilst accompanying his victim
I home to Parramatta from Sydney market he robbed
• him, dashed his braise out, and then hid the body is
the bush, where it was found the following morning.
The wretched man acknowledged his guilt, endued
that the love of drink had brought him to the
• gallows.

TANIANIA.—On the 26th ult. four men wet
hanged in front of Ilobarton Owl. On the scaffold
one of them (Whelan) confessed the crime of whisk
he had been convicted, vie., the murder of three
gentlemen, Messrs. Omen, Dunn, and Axford, for the
discovery of whose remains large rewards had bees
offered without effect. Not only did this hardened
ruffian state all the particulars as to the way in while
the horrible crime was committed, but stated when
he had hid the bodies ; and they have since besa
found there in a state of revolting decomposition. It
appears to have been his practice to stop his viebas
on the road, to compel them by threats to go a short
distance into the bosh, and then to shoot than.
According to his dying avowal he had murdered two
other persons after robbing them.

LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES.
Or TELEGRAPH TO HALIFAX.)
NEW TORT, Ocr. j!.
Doctor Kane and party, of the Arctic expedites,
have arrived all well.

COMMERCIAL.
Flour and Indian corn have advanced. Wheat bie
declined. An advance of id. per lb. au taken plate is
cotton.

The Invalid. Busse announces that the Emperor
Alexaader has not yet left Nicolaieff, sad that be revistrar
on the rScis of October, the crews of the fieet,who hadarthei
from Sebastopol.
A good deal is just now said in Paris shoot a Mel
ballet, entitled Ls Corsaire, at present is rehearsalat the
Ii
period Academy of Music. The entire stage will npressatthe
ocean, and upon this immense space of water will eassenerrs
a venal perfectly and beautifully rigged out. The sides if
the ship will contain an the personnel of the ballet lei
various dances will take place upon deck. The ether!
proportions of the whole of this scene ere said to he OP
rslleled in Paris.
The bands of the French army (says the ,loured
d. Magllelli• Loire) have just received an orgeniestie
which singularly improves the position of the regintria
musicians. A young man who enlists as a musical PO
may now reach the rank of musical officer, by risilleiloselli
all the intermediate grader.
THE MARCO POLO'S GOLD.—LIVERPOOL,
DA T. —The entire of the gold of the Marco Polo wee
to Landon last night, and safely deposited at the Beak Si
England this morning.
Two MEN KILLED NEAR HARROOATIL-40A,
Thursday ?maims, two men named William Rhodes les
Benjamin Burrow. the former a farmer from Stash"
and the latter a woodsman from Fernley, near OttleL vibe
returning in a spring cart from Knareeboecugh ewer 11...
Between Harrogate and Beckwithobaw, Rhodes had cern.
lion to get out of the cart. In doing so be tell astride Ifill
shafts, which vet the horse kicking and plunging. He
wan
thrown off, and bit in the face by the infuriated mind.
The horwe's shoe struck the ball of the eye, destroyed re
produced a pre-eure on the brain, and caused iostestestot
death. Burrows, who is an old man upwards of 70 MN •
age, in the meantime was endeavouring to get out of Me
out, and while doing so the hone ran backward tau the
deR
ditch, which upset tee cart and the old man, and the hoof
fell upon him. He had to remain under the animal slur,
of time before assistance could be obtained to release bile
and when taken up woe found to be quits deed. Two bier
ware is the under part of the cart, but escaped with Mg'
injury.—Lewis Mercers".
RETIREMENT PROM THE LEEDS MAGISTRACY ar
Josx Horn Slum, Este.—We regret to lawn that Islet
Rope Shaw, Beg one of the L-eds magistrate', bar 610
nuanced hie intention to retire from the bends. Afal
the muses of Mr. Shaw's resignation is the refuel of
tM
present Lord Chancellor and hie predecessor to Pit.,_o"ll4ll
the commission of the peace practising attire/7s um.:
fugal conveyed such an imputation upon that branch! ti
legal profession to which Kr. Shaw belongs that be
we believe, have retired from the bench at ones had. ft
been for the peculiar peonies in which the
ere at this moment plated by having an insallictraL
of gentlemen is 'Wigs a the peace for the
Attache have witamsed the administration of justice
tumour/It foe several years pest will, we aresore, gwirietiat
se that any elmainstanes which could lead to "'
the
of Mr. Shaw from the magistracy is most enhehins.
laid, Mcrotry.
Troops will embark this day on board
the
transport Indiana, now !yin at Southamptoa.
Aricsmiam, Ocr. t 3 —The blockading II
has not been sees mean the her foe the last tress-
Bum's, Oar. 17.—A Raisin schoosatir}
Bus the Bsltb, ease to sachet in the roadstead

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
THIS DAY.

Perilomat was this day further prorogued by
Beni °simian easel Timothy, the 11th day of Deeesbas
seat.
The Loss Catascsitos sad the ether Coaraimelesen
betel tans their wet. Si the fest of the throes, the Daher
el the Meek Red wee Masted to aseasea the Common to
leer the Canaries reed.
ow* aseenede, e.. of the Make, &tended by the
deeekeent sad New of the OUSOT allele& of the hew, sp-
read at the bar. when the Cesasmelos was reed by the
siert at the table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thee, by vines of the
Coamelesin, belated it to be her Majesty's Royal will sad
Taman that the Parliament Weald be farther prewessai
eau' the day thesis slued ; mad it and adjosned wend-
Intl, sail the 11th of Dneseher.
The anal words asaryiss the eigaideast istioaatka that
it would thee meet fa the despatch of bakes, were sot
°naiad is the iminalain.
The cersaany, whin wee amply owe of fors, did sot last
may Wawa, sad heyesd the kw pereasegem immediately
waged ia it there were osly a few paean preent.

DEATH OF LORD

We regret to ailoolooo the death of Lord Wharn-
affe, whisk event took place yesterday songs( at Wortley
Mall, the family seat he Yorkshire. The deemed peer had
Of nue seethe suffered from severe indisposition, so that
she event was net altogether see:petted. Ties Right Hes.
Jamas 'Wart Worthy, M.P. (the Recorder), sod other neer
relatives have Wu congregated at Wortley Hall in antki-
peels elite swooshing death.
The Esswed, Jobs Stuart Wortley, Baron WM/media
of WwWy, Nutty Cork, in the peerage of the trailed
Kingdom, woo eldest see of Jobs Archibald, ant bane,
sod Lady Elisabeth, daughter of Jobs, Ant Earl of Erse.
gis woad, was bean April 20, 1801, and serried De-
Nobel 12,1825, Lady Georgians Elisabeth Ryder, third
daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Earl
of Hareurby, by whose, who survive., the late lord
leaves Yoe the Marchioness of Drogheda sad as un-
serried doubts?, and three sus, the eldest of w►om, the
Hee. Edward Wortley (now Lord Wholesale), was hors
Der.lB,lB2l,aad monied July 4, 1835, Lady Blau UMW*
destitute of the Earl and Countess of Harewood. The
diseased whims& wu a liberal conservative is polities,
hat raduly employed himself in promoting the interests of
kis tomato, and like his father was greatly attached is
sgriulture, seeking all the newest anodes to improve the
culture of the land. He sat for .heWest &klieg of Yorkshire
from the general election in 1841—being returned wit► Mr.
B. Demises at the head of the poll, defeating Viscount MU
tea ad Viet:east Morpeth (now Earl of Culisle)—satil the
death of his father in 1845, when he suesseded to the
family heaps» sod estates. By the tenanted dowsed his
hole* auserou noble families are plated Is mararaing.
The lard was for some yeses Colonel of the West York-
shire Yummy Cavalry, which post he was obliged to resign
hen ill health, and was a Deputy-Lieutenant of the county
'-hr.

RUMOURED

RECALL OF TEE
ENGLISH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.

LIVBRPOOL. MONDAY.

It was rumoured on 'Change to-day, on the kith
ef teispephis talt from Wash/sites to Heiden, and
luetsght by the mail steamer Amities, that the Belted
Sato genniment had demanded the mall of as British
Wailer as Washlagtea, in ronstqamme of Isis manezioa
with the resent utevemeat Is the Baited States far the Of •
of MIR tot the ionise ef the British army ia the

RAILWAYS.

WIMBLEDON AND CROYDON.

TVs lin el railway wee opened Tor trail' yesterday.
al Wm ris auk way daily has the Waterloo Railway
Min 'sir die above liae to Mitcham and Croydos. Also
ilaienaarisa with the shave railway, 13 train dome aid
oohs ally at the Labs-bridge swiss of the Brightso
&away.
DRESIDE.

The am* verve et arditesuirri of this aeleyeay states
that the M ienisi swains", en eepital ht duet
the pet ameantsd to 19.3171. The smiths/
nem Is *eel the senstrousats of the tralritin
aim pee sited the line I. 7.3791. The moose inemesst
Ann 11111NINMINI of 1.11111, ae 20 praise., ova, tb=
of the preeedieg year. The Mersin is the
treAs wry 310 E; la the reempee by.aritestes. 111114_09/
diem is gone sad prase[.. 1.4601 ; la Uwe
sad la mieseorem senipts. SOL Tbe
aueswil Newt 411 pew wt. of the gree7lNlenC
mum wean sheers a bee earplug of S, Wish,
added ft NU. the babas* item the bet sessnat, end MIL,
presidential ohms mid anis the yew. whoa a Wel of
4,11111. Oat et fhb win the Awls= satennend that a
dirideed of 7a. id. gio elm. bong id the Ws of 11 per
wt., .
Angina She AS al Noveratiet an% bee Imeartea.
whin .111 evigibe 9.2941 wed Woe Mt. The &-
Wan toads heft bee have MI bon reamed at I per nat.
• sung drift bee bees nenhsted fer ewe esanierabio
time by thelndowees and swats Is the Anna of AIAW'
to prenete the enelesellso et a lin of railway hen that
agate, aids As Demi& Railway seer Colford, Bmiles
Is.. AbeeiWa. The Hee will Mabout % sues
Itzr., heat the with the Donde Railway to
The dineten have neeleal Se wearege with dt
semi" sad to give meg At to As prepaid under-
la wenn, the tiolle. WS they to ash WWI II
eater Mee obligation or gissmnime at say kW ea the
M the Deans Coutpiay. The embed essawat a
reesipt et 1211,1484. sad as espeedllare of MAW. barbs
a Wine et 10 01131. The mean alma for the dab
31 slalom that NAIL hod bees
LiaddildlMlL. AIIM berm sineaded. Wynn abalone 0141001,
est .1 whin 1,6104. le Wassail Ar Wenn ea Issas,
band 1,1111111 seaCebte for dinned.
BIDEFORD EXTENSION.
This Hee is aanoseood to bs spend for endless the 29th
W., whoa there will be gnat edaislars ia Bideford to eele-
Irate the gnat. It is npeated that the lin, which le as
eneasisa tithe North Dow Railway, will enter a gnat
bawls is the islabitaete of that port, sad prove innate-
pen te the t.... ..d villeeee le the diettiet.
SALISBURY AND YEOVIL
I It is stated that imp to this Mime upwards et 6.0001. is
shins have Ws Wen by shareholders la Yeovil mad the
neighbourhood who have signed the ntherripefee esstrart.
The railway en he samplan Ar 401,000 L or 10,0001. per
mil.. The deaden, sapital is oily 30,0001., and whoa
this I. 'Mann the wens will be immediately proceeded
with.