The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-01 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 1.
The Royal Mail Steamship Parana has 'arrived here with
the above mails: —B3 paasengers ; 8,39 G/. in specie, and
1,200 packages of cargo, principally wool and tobacco.
The Federal Wei ship Onward was cruising on the Bra-
zilian coast for Confederate yowls. Tranquillity prevailed
in Buenos Apes and the province.. Mr. Wheelwright
proceeds to Rosario to superintend the work of a great
centr►l Argentine railwa►. Several vessels had arrived
with plant for the line. Business war brink, and wools pro-
mised to rule high. The government of Buenos Ayres was
absorbed in a project to ameliorate the value of the paper
currency. The report of the Minister of the Interior to Con-
gress was daily expected. The works on the Southern rail-
way were progressing favourably.
Exchange on England, 50d.

' The annual dinner of the Hertford Agricultural
Society took place yesterday, under the presidency of Mr.
NONE.KT H ASBURY. The atteudanoe, which ',Livery numerous,
included the Marquis of Salisbury, the Right Hoo. W.
Cowper. M.P., Sir W. Farquhar, M.P., Mr. Abel Smith,
M. P., Mr. H. E. Surtees, Lc. A letter was read from
Sir E. B. Lytton, excusing his absence on account of indis-
position.
Ma. WILBRAHAM EOZRTON, 111. P., ON FAR MENA'
CLues.—Mr. Egerton, at the diaper of the Altriocbem
Agricultural Society, took occasion to observe that the use
'of the minor societies of that kind was, that they enabled
small tenants to show stock which they might not wish to
produce at the larger societies. He believed that soother
year it would be a good thing if they set some particular
subject for discussion dunng the evenieg. The other even-
ing he was present at such a discussion on the tenure of
land. If farmers had any grievance, or wished for any alto-
; ration in the relations of landlord and tenant, i' was the
; time (or stating them when they met their landlords, sod
• had the opportunity of hearing criticisms on both sides.
He wished, above all, to see the status of the agricultural
labourer improved. There was plenty of room for im-
provemeot io many of their cottages, in better
yenulation and dunnage. This was no doubt a landlord's
quevtion, and it was well that landlords should atteed
such meetings in order that the., discussions should be
raised. While the wages of the agricultural labourer
were being raised, there would be an inducement to build
' a better class of cottages, and the labourer should have his
'garden for vegetables., sod he would have them attend more
to the rearing of poultry. In looking over some statistics
the other day, be found that 236 millions of eggs
• were imported into this country. He thought it
moat be profitable to rear poultry, if it was only
for the production of eggs. He joined in gratitude
for the bountiful harvest with which they had been
; hiewied, and expreesed a bops that it would do much to
alleviate the distress among the operalives in the manufac-
turing districts, whose difficulties be feared were not pit
ever. He was debarred from entering into any political
subjects, and at the present time then were so great sub-
jects requiring to be discussed. He believed there was
general cestent throughout the country, and no peat Ow-
-1 anon that required special and immediate remedy. All that
was required were those measures which, so to speak, would
oil the machinery which was already in operation. Portia.
, meet was required for that purpose, mid was alive to that
duty. Hs believed that as a patios we wens weU governed,
and that there were no very great changes nocereary. TWO,
that were n would, be believed, be made from time
1 to tiros as required, in order to keep up the requirements of
the watatu.

I have the honour to inform you that the city of Nankin,
so long the centre of disaffection in China and the point
from which so many bands of ruthless plunderers have
Maned on their raids upon the peaceful sad wealthy cities
of Central China, has been captured by the Imperialist
army under the command of Teeng-kwo-chuen, the governor
of Chekiang, and brother of the viceroy of the province.
of Kiang Nan and Kiang Su. The city was stormed on the
19th of this month through a breach, caused by • mine
sprung under the wall, near the east gate. Rumours
of its capture reached me on the day following the
meanie but I paid no attention to them, having
been so often deceived by reports of Chinese victories. On
the 24th of this monde, however, I obtained a copy of the
memorial to Me lereeds-tgeleally sommaseieg tie spunk
Oo the following day 1 started for Nankin io her Majesty's
ship Slansy, intending to congratulate the Chinese com-
mute/ler-in-chief on the auspicious termination of his two
years' siege. I found his excellency at his camp onside
the south get. of the city. When the Imperialists made
good their entrance into the city, they found that the palace
of the Tien Wang, the leader of the rebellion, and the
claimant for many years past of divine Immure sad attn.
butes, had been burnt to the ground. It is said that the im-
postor and his immediate attendants lie buried in its ruins.
I am inclined to credit the rumour, for the city has been
closely blockaded since January lest, and I think that Lo-
thing but a desperate sortie would have enabled him to get
clear. But the most important fact of all is the capture of
Chung Wang. This person has for many years been the
most restless and determined of all the desperadoes Tai-
ping-dom has seat forth. He it was who threatened
Sbeagbae in 186 d ; he was Admiral Hope's antagonist in his
operations near Shanghae ; he fought against Colonel
Gordon at Sooehow. lie tried to introduce the foreign ele-
ment into his levies, and was said by achel sympathisers to
be the main hope of the Tai-ping cause io its declining days.
After the assault, he managed to leave the city with • few
followers, but he was captured three days subsequently by
• party of cavalry. I was much pressed to visit the
Chung Wang in his confinement, but declined, as I had no
personal acquaintance with him. On the day following my
interview with the commander-in-chief, 1 rode into the
city and visited the breach. Words cannot describe the
utter desolation of everything within the walls. The main
thoroughfares traversed by me were the streets between
the much-west and east gates, and those between the
south-west and south gates. Oa either hand the houses
left standing had the appearance of having been tenantless
for years, while the gaudy gateways, denoting the resi.
deuces of the weep or princes, opened is most instances
on to courts full of brickbats and charred timber..
As for the side streets, they were malty of them overgrown
with jungle four feet hien. During my ride through the
city I saw • great number of unbuned bodies, and in many
places the smell was so offensive that both myself and Lieu-
tenant Lee, who accompanied one, were almost overpowered.
But on the whole I came to the cooclueion that the rebel
force in the city at the time of its capture could not have
been very large. The Imperialists, according to their
own account, spared very few able-bodied males,
so that the dead lying in the streets would be
a fair criterion of the strength of the garrison.
I estimate it at 10,000 men, spinet 10,000 under the
Imperialist commanders. I think a ride through the streets
of Nankin, as they are at present, would satisfy the most
ardent advocate of the rebel came of the dreadful hollow-
ness of the system they support Some eleven years ago
the Taiping took Nankin, then one of the finest cities in
China. Ever since its capture it his been their heed-
quarters. In it the chiefs of the movement built their
tawdry houses, and (rem it they despatched their plunder-
ing bands in all directions. M.0./bile the works of civil
government and social organisation are entirely neglected,
sod when the city is retaken it is found to be a wilderness
of empty houses.

New C.B.—"WAR-OFFICF., SEM'. 29.—The Queen
(says U. (Murk) has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Colonel Godfrey Thomas Greene,
late directorof engineering mid architectural works node:
the Board of Admiralty, to be an ordinary member of the
civil division of the third class, or companions of the most
honourable order of the Bath.

DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS. FOREIGN-OFFIcE,
Stn. 28.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to ap-
point Captain Richard Francis Burton, now her Majesty's
Consul at Fernando Po, to be her Majesty's Consul at
Santos ; and her Majesty has also been pleased to approve
of Mr. B. Cramer as Consul air &hos for his Majesty the
King of Prairie.
ATTEMPTED MCEDER.—Shortly after mid-clay
on Thursday • brutal attempt to murder was made by •
youth named John Wagstaff, • stable. hel per in the employ
of Jawed Townsend, Esq., of Alveston House, one of
the magistrates of the county. It appears that Wagstaff
and • boy named John Bayliss had been having some
gin together, which Wagstaff kept in • bottle in the
saddle-room. Baylisa went to turn over some manure
in the yard, when Wagstaff went to him, and in the
coulee of the conversation Bayliss said to him, "Why,
Jack, you're drunk." Upon that Wagstaff seised hold of
a stools fork, and stuck it into Bayliss's neck, literally
Mooing him to the adjoining wall. Bayliss cried out,
and, having released himself, ran round the outbuildings
to the garden. Here Wegstaff met him, and knocked
him down with the shaft of the fork. Baylis§ again
escaped, and was caught is the arms of oos of the domes-
tics, just as be was falling to the ground from exhaustion.
The wound upon his neck is of • very serious character, the
hemorrhage having been great, owing to some of the prin-
cipal yawls having been iojured. He Bee in a most criti-
cal state, it Wag all hut impossible that he an long sur-
vive, and his depositions have been takes in anticipation
of his death. Waptaff immediately after committing the
deed absoooded atom the ormatry, sad after swimming
across the river Avon, joined the Birmingham train as the
Crest Wasters at Matta'. Yesterday morale( be was
apprehended at Birmingham, ceaveyed to Stratfced, where
he was lakes before the magistrates and formally re-
manded. He is as ieoffeeeivelookiter young =as, sad
Is said act to lave bees sober at the toss be eoattaitted
the not.

From Messrs. Sampson Low and Co.'s press we shall
have : " Pictures of English Life." after original studies by
R. Barnes and E. M. W himperis, engraved by J. 1). Cooper,
with descriptive poetry by F. G. ll'atts—" A History of
Lace, from the Earliest Period," by Mrs. F. Palliser—
" The Great Schools of England," by Howard Staunton, Esq.
—" Rees and Beehives," by the Tants Beemsater—" Nor-
mandy : its Gothic Architecture and History ; as illustrated
by Twenty-five Photographs from Buildings in Rouen,
Caen, Mantes, Bayeux, and Falaise ; a Sketch," by F. G.
Stephens—" The White Wife, with other Stories, Super-
natural sod Legendary," by Cuthbert Bede-- The Gipsies
of the Danes Dyke," by January Searle•-" Brigandage in
Italy, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time," by a
Resident—" A History of the Discovery and Exploration of
Australia, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day," by
UN Meg. Jails K Tallow Woods—and "Canada West la
1864 : a Handbook for Settlers," by H. T. N. Chesehyre.
Mews. Smith, Elder, and Co. will produce: "The Lake
Country," by E. Lynn Linton. with 000 hundred illustra-
tions on wood—" The Cornhill Gallery," coutainias ass
hundred engravings from drawings ou wood (from desires
for the illustration of the Cornhilf Mayazine)—" The Life
cod Letters of the late Rev. Fred. W. Robertson"—
"Grimm's Life of Michael Angelo," translated by F. F.
Busnett—" Letters on England," by Louis Blaoe—" Cele-
brities of London and Pans, being a third gene. of Rend-
mimeses, and Anecdotes of the Court, the Camp, and the
Clubs," by Capt. Gronow—" Our Tropical Possessions
in Malayan India," by John Cameron, E.q.—"The
Law of Life, shown in a Phdosophical. Religious,
and Social Study of the Lord's Prayer," translated
from the French of M. D'Espinwous, by Harriet E.
Willrioeon—" The Englishwoman in India"—" On Capital
Puoishment" based on Professor Mittermaier's " Die
Todestrafe," edited by John Macrae Moir. The new novels
of this firm will include :—" Darkest before Dawn," by the
author of " Tbe Cruellest Wrong of All"—" I.:royal:oust,"
edited by Lady Chattestoo—" Once and Again," by the
author of " Who Breaks— Pays"—" By the Sea." by the
author of " Hester Kirton"—" Behar —" Noel ; or, II
Ws. to Be," by Robert Baker—" Three Phases of Love"
Dunroara," by Ruth Murray—and "The Heiress of
Blackburn Foot."

Messrs. Routledp and Co. have in the press :—" Home
Thoughts and Homo Saws: Original Poems," by Jean
laglelow, Hrs. Tom Taylor, Miss Humphrey,. the Hos.
Mrs. Norton Dora Oreenvill, Amelia B. Edwards, and the
author of "John Halifax," with thirty live elate:este pic-
tures drawn by A. B. Houghton, and engraved by the Bro-
thers Osiris! (uniform with Birket Fostm's "English Land.
seapes")—",What Men have said shout WOMO a,"
selected from the Poets by Henry Southgate, with
illustrations by Watson —" Golden Light," being
Scripture Histories from the Old and New Testa-
ment, for the Young ; with eighty pictures immved
by the Brothers Dalziel—A we edition of Laois
" Arabian Nights," with many hundred illustrations by Wil-
liam Harvey, in 3 vols.—A new volume cf Poems, by Elias
Cook—" Every Boy's Annual for 1865." with numerous
illustrations—and a volume of " Fairy Stories," by George
Cruikabank.

Messrs. Bell and Delay anemias :—" n. Googlies sad
their Retains, Andrei and Medirevel," by C. W. King—
" The Customs and Traditions of l'aleatia," by E. Pierati
—a volume of Poems, by Samuel Ferguson, Ems.—a series
of Fat-similes from the Original Swains by Reffselle and
Michael Angelo, now in the Coivereity Galleries at Oxford,
etched by Joseph Fisher—mod • volume on the Book of
Common Prayer. by the Rev. M. F. Sadler, entitled,
"Church Doctrine, Bible Truth."
Messrs. Deightoo, Bell, and Co. have nearly reedy for
publication a translation of the Gorgiaa of plate, with
an Introductory Eery containieg a Summery of the
meat, by E. M. Cope—an edition of Lucretius, with Notes,
Critical and Explanatory, sod no Eti4lieh Version, by
H. A. J. Munro—a prose translation of the Plays of
Asaylne, by F. A. Yeliry—en edition of " Kent's Com-
mentary oa International Law," with Notes of COIN
brought down to the Present Time, by Dr. Abdy—
" An Essay en the Autliaticity of the Book of Deniel," by
J. Is. Fuller.
From Mr. Rardwicke we shall have :—" The Astropoeni.
cal Observer :a Handbook to the Observatory and the Om-
moo Telescope," by W. A. Darby—" Synopsis Abeam : •
Synopsis of ell known Ferias, including Schisoaceic °emen-
dates,. Merrattiaele andOphrogloseele,"...by Sir W. J.

Hooker—a cemplate work •' On B~tish end FO'reign Prros,
by J. Smith, late of Kew Gardens—the thud volume of
Sowerby's Botany, edited by Mr. Syme and Mra. Leekester
—an Illustrated Catalogusof the Fosail Sponger, by J. B.
Mackie—the completion of Prof. Burkman's work ow
" Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation "—" The
Plagues of Domestic Animals." b► Prof. Gsmgee—and
"Runt. Smut, Mildew and Mould, an Easy Introduction to
the Study of Mitzusoopic Fungi," by M. C. Cooke.

Ma. COBDEt LeD TtiL A 11E111C1 N Wsß.—The
New York Times publishes the falowior letter from Mr,
Cobden to the Hon. Janus M. Scovell :—•' Medburst,
hussar, Aug. 18, 1884.—Dear Mr. %oven— I have to thank
you far your kisdoess in having thought of try little girl
after your return home, and having sent her your Presidents
autograph. lam also very mush obliged to Mr. Liooola
for his amiability in indulging the wish of a young ledy.
You must likewise permit me to thank you for the volume
you were so good uto send me. its common with all your
friends and well-wishers to the Federal cause is this
oountry, I have been looking with greet solicitude to the
programs of the mar. There seems to be something in the
modern development of armaments which favours the de-
fence over attack. Whichever side is the usailast .ease to
be pretty certain of being uessoseneful. This most teed to
prolong the war, and nuke the issue &pad on the cons.
partitive strength of the resources of the contending parties.
In this draggle spigot exbustios sad ruin, the North will
be able to hold out the longer, and to this tedious aid
dreadful possum meet we resign onnelves, I suppose, fee the
settlement el you qoarreL My household hem who en.
member your pleaseet soporifics among them, jars as is
best wishes for your welfare, sod I remain, very Wily yens.
Offloor.