The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-20 00:00:00

THE' *VAXMESS4 THIIRSDA.Y

such a discovery, for they 'fire generally"
without friends, often almost 'AN* acquaint-
ances, and it is because of this unhappy position
that they are forced to resort to strangers. An
off* in a respectable street, with the external evi-
dences of respectability, naturally invitee their no-
tice, and as the honest equally with the dishonest
offices would ridicule the idea of furnishing certi-
ficates of their own character, no other means of
testing it exist. This,' therefore, is a case in which
a change in the law, sufficient to bring the matter
under the jurisdiction of • criminal magistrate,
must be invoked. As we punish retailers of bad
meat or cabmen attempting to overcharge, simply
because the public has no practical means of re-
cognising and avoiding such persons beforehand,
so we must punish the Employment offices which I
assume an honest semblance only to perpetrate
roguery. The offence, indeed, is probably already
in some instances an indictable one, for it comes
extremely close at least to the crime of obtaining
money by false pretences. But a poor servant of
all work, or a struggling governess, or a widow
trying to eke out her livelihood with needlework, I
cannot be expected to prosecute. The,
cruelty which has been already inflicted on
persons so helpless and so indigent cannot be re-
lieved by imposing on them the burden of vindi-
cating public justice by indicting the criminals.
What is wanted is that the offence of obtaining
money on pretence of furnishing the address of a
situation, when the party furnishing it does not
actually and personally know that the situation is
then open, should be made cognisable before a
magistrate in • summary form. It will be neces-
sary to make the Act broad enough to cover, not
merely the cases we have referred to, but those in
which addresses furnished are really correct, but
have been merely cut out of the advertising
columns of a newspaper without any authority
from the advertisers themselves. Employment
agents or officers should in fact be considered
strictly as brokers, whose office is to bring together
parties who have applied to them, or to whom
they can personally apply ; and as any attempt
to suggest imaginary parties is really fraudulent,
it ought to be made punishable in the speediest
possible way.

LATIBT INTELLIQXNOE.

INDIA.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.
BHOOTAN TO BE ATTACKED.

We have received letters and papers from Bom-
bay to Sept. 29.
Bhootan is to be attacked. After every effort
(says the Bombay Times) to Acute the submission of
the Bhootaneee, or some amende for their barbarous
treatment of the British Mission, has proved
abortive, orders have been issued by the govern-
ment of India for the formation of such a force as
will soon bring them to reason. The Bhootan
field forte will be as follows :
Two regiments of Bend Cavalry, of which the 6th, sow
at Julpigonie, is me; five regiments of Native Infantry ;
the 11th N. L, from Nagode,the 12th N. L, from Cawspcm,
the 18th N. 1., of Julpigoree, the 25th Punjab N. L, from
the Presidency, and the 30th Punjab N. 1., from Bemuse.
The artillery will be—Cantata Griffin's &teary of Mom.
teas-train Artillery, Armstrong B.ponnden of the Pun-
ish Irregular Form and the Eurasian Mountain-
train Battery of Cheers Poonjes, the former being
now on its march down country, and the latter ready to
cross Assam to the Shook"' frontier. Two companies of
Sappers and Miners, now ordered down country with all
pasible despatch, will accompany the form ; and the corps
of segiseees will supply four officers at leant for service is the
field. Four commissariat °Skiers will join, the senior bass
Capt. A. ki•Kenzie, just relieved from the Bemires chugs by
Major Dunbar, and who has been ordered to proceed at ono*
to Wayne" and to oollect earrimge for the field-force•
The Bhootan field-force will be divided into two °damse—
-1 one to be commanded by Brigadier-Cheers! W.E. Mulcaster,
now commanding in Aram. and the other by Colonel
H. F. Ditesford, C. 8., with the rank of Briga-
dier-General, lately commanding is the Cossysh
Hills sod Amen ; with a general officer, Major.
General Showers, C. 8., commanding the Presidency Dl.
vision, to command the whole force. It is intended to
penetrate the Bhootan country from the frontier at four
separate point. ; sod we should think that the above.
described form will, if ably directed, be amply sufficient to
awry oat all the objects and wishes of the government
and put matter with the Bhootanese on a eatiefaetory
footing.

The Viceroy was to arrive at Lahore on Friday,
the 14th October, and leave again on the 19th.
The great Durbar was to take place on the 18th,
and his excellency will visit Delhi on the 23rd.
The government of India had summoned all the
members of the Imperial Legislative Council to •
full meeting at Calcutta on the 4th November.
The Army Head Quarters Camp will form at
Umb•lla on the sth November, and march with the
Commander-in-Chief, rid Delhi, Meerut, Morada-
bad, Bareilly, Shabjehanpors, and Seetapore, to
Luclmow, where there will be a great camp of
exercise. From Lucknow his Excellency will visit
Gornapore, Darjeeling, and other stations along
the eastern frontier. His excellency will not reach
Calcutta before the middle of January.
The Ameer of Cabool has played false. Ufzul
Khan, and those of his adherents who were within
reach, have been made prisoners. It is expected
that Übdool Rahman Khan, son of Uzful Kban,will
show fight.
The Viceroy has conferred the honour of the Star
of India upon the Rajah of Kupportolah. The
rajah did good service in the mutiny, is • Christian,
and a man of considerable ability. He is married
to a Christian lady.
The Secretary of State for India has sanctioned
an increase of 60,000 rupees to the pension, amount-
ing to five lakhs of rupees a year, formerly granted
to H.H. the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
General G. St. P. Lawrence, when about to
leave Rajpootana, was informed that the chiefs
wished to present him with a testimonial. He
replied, that the discontinuance of the custom by
which Europeans were obliged to take off their
shoes before entering the native durbars would be
the most acceptable. Orders were promptly issued
throughout Rajpootana in accordance with the
desire thus expressed.
Maharajah Jung Bbadoor applied to government
for leave to send his two sons to the military
schools to be educated as artillery officers. The
government of India replied that those schools were
only free to those who were qualifying themselves
for her Majesty's service.
Punjaub coal has been tried in the locomotives
of the Punjaub Railway, and found to answer "as
well as any English." Its combustion was nearly
perfect, leaving but very little clinker.

bt Court.

BALMORAL, Oar. 17.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
went oat in the morning. In the afternoon her Majesty
drove to Glee Ey, accompanied by Princess Helena, and
attended by Lady Augusta Stanley.

The Hon. Su Frederick Broom lett the Cantle in the
moenini.

Despatches were seat tics the Oelonial-olEce yesterday
to the Governors of Gibraltar, Yalta, the Mauritius, Cey-
lon, Bong. Kong, Lebrun, and the Australian ooksies.

DIPARTURZ Or THE QIIRRN THOM BALMORAL.
Her Majesty the Queen, it is now arranged, will leave
Balmoral for Windsor on Wednesday the 26th, indeed of
Monday the 24th, as has been stated. Her Majesty will
leave Balmoral about 12.30, palling, se usual, to Aboyne,
which will be reached shortly after two o'clock. A special
train will here be in waiting tot the royal party, which will
leave Aboyne at 2.30, arriving at the Ferry-hill Jtuictioa,
Aberdeen, at 3.32. There will be a stoppage here of five
for change of engines, &a., attar which the royal
train will proceed by the Scottish North Eastern Railway
to Perth, which will be reached at 6.18. At Perth there
will be a stoppage of an hour, when the train will proceed
by Carlisle, where there will also be a short stoppage.
Windsor will be reached at nine o'clock cm Thais:lay morn.
ing.—Scdrinan.

Queen Marie Amdlio, accompanied by their
Royal Highborn. the Duke de Nemours sod the Princess
Marguerite d'Orleaaa, and the Duke and Duchess de
Chartres, has left Chancellor's Rouse, Tunbridge Wells,
where the venerable Queen bee been residing several
months, for Claremont, Raney, attended by the ladies and
gentlemen of the royal household.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left
town for Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire.
The Earl and Countess of Cork have arrived in
Graf ton•street from Manton Park, for her ladyship's
accouchemeot.

The Earl and Countess of Portarlington have
arrived at Emo Park, their seat in Ireland, from a tom.

The Earl of Lincoln left town yesterday morning
for Clamber Park, Notts, immediately after the receipt of
the telegram (moseying the Dews of the sodden death of hie
father, the Doke of Newcastle.

The late Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Gladstone
owe their education to Eton and Christchurch. Lord
Herbert, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Aberdeen were at Har-
row. Sir James Graham wee educated at Westminster,
Mr. Cardwell and Sir Roundel' Palmer at Winchester.
Lord Canning was at Eton, and Lord Dalhousie at Harrow.
An Edinburgh correspondent writes :—" Mr. T.
Spencer Baynes has been appointed to the logic chair in the
University of St. Andrew's. Mt. Baynes will be a mitt.
rated man the more in Scotland, and a ready pen the lean
in London journalism. His appointment hoe given great
satisfaction to the men here who knew him well several
years ago—when the Guardian wu running its career,
when Aytonn wu tarring and feathering Gilfillan in ' Fir-
milian,' and when the entire spasmodic school—Balder,
Life Drama, and Babe Christ/lel—might have been seen
walking together any fine annoy forenoon io Princeectreet."
The annual meeting of the Newmarket Farmers'
Club was held there on Tuesday, and was presided over by
the Duke of Rutland. Lord George thenere, Y.P. for the
county, and Lord Royston, were also presser. In discus-
ins the present state and prospects of the farmer his grace
the chairman said he feared than were many farmers now
who, in mourning the scarcity of food for their tattle re-
gretted that they bad not urged upon the government the
necessity of repealing the malt tax in the spring. His
grace, also in strong terms, coodemned the excuse put
forth by Lord Burnell and others for not going to war—
that our extended commerce would be injured. He gave
no opinion about the policy of going to war, but of this
he was sure, that the country would never tolerate such a
pitiful excuse, which he never expected to hear put forth
by English stateemsa.

Lunatic asylums are to be established throughout
India in almost all the principal towns.
A missionary named Clerk, while preaching in
the streets of Cashmere, has caused something like
a riot there. The Maharajah of Jummoo would
have ejected him from the country but for the
advice of the resident, Mr. Cowper, who persuaded
the rajah to let him alone, promising that he should
not give farther cause of offence.

THE INCENDIARY FIRES IN RUSSIA.
The governments of Orenbourg, Simbirsk, Sara-
tow, Samara, Kazan, ac., are at the pre-
sent moment suffering dreadfully from incen-
diary fires. These governments have been lately
selected for the residence of a great number of
Poles condemned by the severity of the law in
Poland. It appears from an article in the
Botechafter of Vienna, that in some towns the
fires have been attributed to these unfortunate
people. Many have perished as victims of the
exasperation of the masses ; and, far from
seeking to suppress this outbreak of popu-
lar passion, some Russian journals, including
the Invalids, an official journal, and the Moscow
Guzette,the most widely-circulated journal in Russia,
echo theme accusations, and add to them insinua-
tions adapted to excite still further the passions of

The British Museum received yesterday the
statues from the Farness Palace at Rome, recently pur-
chased from hie Majesty, the ex-King of Naples. These
statues ere nine in number. This acquisition is mainly dm
(says the Times) to the friendly intervention of Mr.
William Storey, the well-known American sculptor at
Rome, whose Cleopatra and African Sybil were so justly
admired in the Greet Exhibition, and whose Saul. still in
his studio, is a work of eve• greater power. To Mr. Storey
the first overtures respecting this purchase were made, and
it wee by his untiring zeal and patience that the long and
tedious negotiation which ensued was brought to a satisfac-
tory termination.
The Exhibition of Irish Manufactures is still
kept open at Dublin, and continues to attract numerous
visitors, though the numbers are diminishing as the season
advances. It is understood that it will not be closed till
near Christmas, the promenade it affords, with the bands
and concerts, is found so agreeable.
Mr. Greenough, the well-known American
sculptor, has just sent from his atelier to Leaden a Inlet of
the distinguished actress, Miss Helen Faticit, which, es •
work of art, has received the highest commendation frog•
the amateurs of /Feria.

the multitude. Nothing has transpired thus far
to give the least appeszanoe of foundation to these
charges, while, on the other hand, numerous
facts seem to disprove them in a manner most
honourable to the Poles. Thus the Northern Post
of the 7th of October states that after the fire at
Orenbourg, the Poles living in the government of
that name hastened to send to the people
deprived of shelter and means of subsistence two
carts filled with bread, gruel, and salt. Some days
beforr, the head of the police of Orenbourg, Colonel
Michel Fedcrow, bore striking testimony in favour
of the Poles in the following letter addressed to the
Moscow Gazette:
The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes the following :
" According to the last news from Oranbourg five Pass
have bees 'riveted, who are suspected and coavieted d
having several times excited the inhabitania of our oeuatry
against the government and order. Ose of the Poles
arrested was found in posesssion of a considerable sus id
mosey ; ►he inquiry commenced will show by what lamas
IN accoired it." It is oaly through reading the said
_ _

I journal that we people of Oreaboarg have karst
Great preparations are everywhere making for
-- ' the this fact, unheard of &mous us. There are is the
rejoicings that are to take place to celebrate the Jubilee town of orooboorg b 2 polio transported ood placed own
or fiftieth anniversary of the union between Sweden and
~ the surveillance of the polio*. AU of AIM conductthem-
Nerere7' ID thew the Queen Dowager et Bweies• , ''"e ve
wave, ry reasimably sad properly ;they live in Na may
daughter of the late Eugene Beauharsais. Duke a Leach-
peareable and there are no catalists &moue then,
te.hug' take. a Vast iatarasa' ea her Majesty has always Moreover meaner,
, the Russian Gazette itself bears taw
bean very popular in Norway. and thoroughly understands ,
the poaitlon and ewtimenta of the people of that country, 1 timony still more direct and positive. This is •
which have latterly become much more favourable to the , letter describing the incendiary fires at Kourgan
Swedish ooeueriou. and Tnmen, which says :
The Mmimento of Genoa announces that twelve 1 The transported Poles are accused of these incendiary
of the soldiers condemned for the affair of Aspromanto. sets. In order to churl the absurdity of this arensation it
bat pardoned by the rooms royal &OM, have pared is sufficient to tilt* that in the wasfaT Olson they are
through that city on the way to rejoin their regiments. squally regarded as the authors of the drought which has