The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-17 00:00:00

place V.
N.W. to N.E. sod BoirniCossrs. W.N.W. to N.N.E.,
or back, strong to fmh, squally.
fresh.
As next above.

gIooTE.KARL NW. to N. E. and back,
fresh, unsettled.

Drum to north.eaat, Cone elsewhere Wednesday.
liorth-goat=Calthneee to Wacola. Weet=Donegal to Corn.
wall. eouth=Engnah Channel and SWAT Dar Cone& South-
Fast... Strait of Dover to Unoolnehlre and liellgolmut.

A RETURNED SOLDIRR'S LETTER TO HIS NURSE.
—"Dear Mies T—: I set down to tell you that I've
arose hum, an ebb I was sum what else. In got 3
bully boys au they are belpin me about getting the garden
sus into the grotto but they haint got no mother an Iye got
a house and a kow and I thort youd be kinder handy to take
care of um if !mid stoop so much. lye thort of you ever sense
I coin from the hospittle and how kinder jimmy you used
to walk up and down them wards. You had the best gate I
ever see an my Ist wife stepped off jeer, so an ihe paid her
way I tell ye% I like to work and the boys likes to work
an I Mao you do an so Ida like to jine if youv no objections
an now Ire made so bold to rite sich but I was kinder
pushed on by my feeling an so I hope youl excuse it an rite
soon. !sheet be mad if you say no but its no harm to ask
as as lea I cant help ritin an the boys names an Zeberlon
iffiadrac an peter they want to see you as doe your respeafu I
friend which oes his present health to you. Joann( C—.
—American paper.
RELIGION A BAD THING TOR SLAVE:I—The
Richmond Whig remarks upon the pernicious influence
which religions instruction has upon the slaves in Virginia,
and, by way of example, relates that—" Upon the last sp.
penance of the Yankees at Fredericksburg the only
Degrees who went off with them when they retired
were those who belonged to, or were frequenters of, the
African church there. The negro Holland, noticed else.
where as under arrest for writing passes for slaves to es-
cape to the Yankees, was a ' pillar' in an African church
in this city, and a leader in the choir. At his room was
found a music tuning fork, and a variety of music and
prayer. books." This is bad for the variety
religion.
These negroes don't seem to understand Paul and Onesimus
an the Rev. Dr. Palmer does. They ought to establish a
Bible Revision Society in Richmond, to eliminate from the
S a-intern the anti-slavery element, which, no doubt, per.
verted the minds and hearts of these bondsmen.—Chicago
Trih,ute.
WILD BOAR HUNT AT Dirrer.. —The inhabitants
of Dieppe were astonished a few days since to see a very
large wild boar, followed by a pack of hounds, arrive on
the left bank of the Seine mid dash into the water, ex-
pecting to reach the opposite bank and take refuge in the
forest of Romans. The loud barking of the dogs adulated
the attention of the people in the oeighbourhood, and a large
crowd 'mumbled to watch the hunt. The animal, hotly
pursued by the doge, landed on an island in the river, which
be crossed at full speed, and Wan took the water in
the right arm of the Seise. Two boats well manned
were despatched to intercept his passage. The wild
hoar, being driven from the right bank, took the
middle of the river, again crossed the Island, and
appeared to be determined to attack the 'penmen.
Another boat's crew joined in the pursuit, and a fowling-
piece loaded with small shot was discharged at him. The
river was dyed with his blood, but the animal continued to
swim, until, becoming fatigued, a rope was skilfully thrown
round Ida body and he was drawn ashore. The wild boar
had been started two hours previously in the neighbourhood
of Conroone, and was the sloth of his species killed within
the last six week' by the same pack of hounds.
THE KIDNAPPING or SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.
Oar readers will remember that the Peruvian government,
after the kidnapping of natives from the KAIDSOOII Islands
bad led to troubles with the French, intended to send back
those of the unfortunate creatures that had survived the
change of climate and other hardships. Two vessels were
chartered to convey beck the rest, about 500. One of these
vessels (Spanish) bad warmly embarked harsher% when the
small-pox broke out turf ally on board, and after many
had died, the remainder were disembarked again sad put on
board the other vessel, the bark Adelaide, Captain Greases,
in addition to the 250 that were in her already. Captain
Grum% accompanied by a Peruvian officer, put to ssa with
429 men, with the inteetioa to carry his load of miserable
human beings back to their native islands. But on the
A number of English gentlemen living in Paris third day out, the small-pox made its appearance. and
caused such a sad havoc, that the captain, fearing that
have loW organised a football slab, to which is to be all would have died before he should be able to reach his
added athletic indoor exercises of a gymnastic character• destination, made first for the Galapagos Islands, and
The football contests take place in the Bois de Boolosee, seeing there was sot fresh water nor victuals smash went
by permission of the authorities, and surprise the Preach to the Cocos islands, where he landed these flat sur-
antasiagly. vived—about 230—0 n an uninhabited island with plenty of
water, fruits and wild hogs. That there was sufficient of
One evening, soon after 8 o'clock, a boat contain- those things which make life tangent, is sheens by the fact
lag twelve Ines from one of the Russian war vessels I. the that the steward and one of the ninon ran away in order
harbour was rats down by tee ferry-bat Jersey City. of to share with the Ransoms their fruits, bogs and wives.
the Cortleadtetreet line, while she wwasnnesting she slip Captain Crasserthence sailed for Pootarenas, where his
All the sailors were thrown into the water, and seven of vessel is lying sow, whilst he is going back to Peru to re.
them are believed to have been drowned. The other five • oeive orders from the Peruvian government as kith@ Kau.
won rescued by the Grew of the ferryboat.--hen York sous left behind.—Pgaggra Star. Nov. 24.
Pawn i The Mayor of Southampton has recommended
According to the last advice@ small-pox was the closing of all shops on Saturday, the day after Christmas,
reel" on the Wilms of Panama. day.

ported last session. He spoke strongly in favour of
peace, concluding with a quotation from the dying
speech of Napoleon 1., to the effect that glory alone
could make France submit to arbitrary government,
and that the only choice lay between the empire
without peace and the empire with liberty. M.
Ronher, the minister of state, replied to M. de
la Gueronnihre in a very poor and embarrassed

speech, from which nothiug else is to be gathered

than that he has no instructions to promise any
amelioration of the stains pee. While the minister
was delivering conservative platitudes, Marshal
Magnan, one of the men of December, who has
the beat reason for knowing how power was then
acquired, and who thinks it should be kept by the
like means, exclaimed that the concessions of
November already granted were " premature."
The only satisfactory part of M. Rouher's speech
was a strong denial that there are any men
about the Emperor who think of going back.
This declaration is the more important because
yesterday's number of the Revue amtemporaine
hints very ominously that if the liberals are too
noisy it may be found that the Constitution is
"perfectible," not, as they assume, exclusively
in the sense of progress, but also in the sense of
additional restrictions, if experience should show
the Emperor that liberty has gone too far. One
passage in M. Rouher's speech will probably he
long remembered against him. He said, as an
argument against liberty, that parties, so far from
being dead, were like white ants, who sibmtly
destroyed the timbers of the soundest edifice,
until one day, when least expected, it came
toppling down. This is a moat unfortunate
argument for a government whose boast is that it
rage upon universal suffrage. According to this
the electors of Paris and of the Cote d'Or are all
white ants. Even the government Petrie rejects
the metaphor, saying that the timbers of the impe-
rial mansion should be so coated with the confi-
dence of the people as to be impervious to the
inroads of these destructive insects.