The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

which have long been appropriated in prospect, and
on the strength of which contracts of various kinds,
some of them reaching far into the next year, must
have been made. The egeot of breaking in upon
these arrangements on the value of a large amount of
property, cannot fail to be worse than merely incon-
sistent: it may in some cases be little short of
ruinous. But on this chapter we do not mean to en-
large. The general bearings of the question deserve
our chief regard ; and we must leave it to the railway
companies to attend to those which more particularly
concern themselves.

Ls recent explosions of steam boilers it is remark-
able what acuteness and what knowledge of the en-
gine, its working, and its peculiar dangers,were shown
by numbers of passengers. And yet, of these passen-
gers, who saw the danger threatened by tying down I
the valves on board the Cricket, none were found to
take the pains and incur the risk of exposing what
they saw. Was every passenger able to see
the degree of pressure of the steam, which bore him
on his way, there could not but be some who would
at once interfere to prevent any foolhardy. risk on the
part of the engineer. Indeed, no engineer would
attempt it, were he certain that the public above him
knew the degree of pressure as well and as soon as
himself.
This sure and desirable mode of prevention, this
guarantee of human life, has been attained in an
invention, which Mr. GEORGE STEPHENSON mentions
in a letter addressed to us, and which will be found
in another column. The approbation of so competent
a judge sufficiently attests the value of so important a

Our Paris letters of Saturday bring. no domestic in-
telligence of general interest. Foreign questions at
present, and especially that of Switzerland, occupy
the French press. The conduct of the government
in supporting the cantons of the league against the
federal government, has called forth most indignant
comments from the opposition journals. The National
has the following on this subject:
The government journal adduces only a fact and an insi-
nuation in support of the right which M. Guisot arrogates to
himself; it refers to the circumstance that a few days back
10,000 muskets were also sold to the Pope, and nearly as
many to the towns of Ancona and Bologna. It insinuates
that Friburg is a sovereign canton, and names it a state, with
a capital letter. The sale to the Pope is an awkward thing
to refer to ; for, in the first place, where is the analogy ?
It is with the Roman government that our ministry treated,
and not with a party of insurgents. These arms were
destined to serve not in a civil war, but in a national
one. Next, is it true that in this circumstance M. Guizot
showed more readiness than he exhibited towards the Son-
derbund ? If we are to place credit in information, which
we believe to be certain, the Italian envoys had all the dif-
ficulty in the world in obtaining the minister's consent to
permit the 20,000 muskets to depart. All their demands
were fruitless, until the application from Friburg arrived.
It was then that M. Guirot yielded to their solicitations,
with the best grace in the world, and permitted the arms to
depart for Rome, for the mere purpose of serving as a preen.
dent. As to the sovereign rights of Friburg, we shall sim-
ply confine ourselves to reminding the Minister of Foreign
Affairs of a fact which belongs to history. When Prince
Louis inhabited Switzerland, our government demanded his
extradition. The canton which had harboured him replied
by a refusal, which it defended on the score of its ere.
reignty; Prince Louis, it said, had the title of citizen there,
and had a right to the protection of the state which had
adopted him. Did the cabinet of the Tuileries remain satis-
fied with that reply ? By no means; it rendered the whale
confederaticn responsible for this conduct, and called on the
central power to use its federal rights. Thus our govern-
ment has been in Switzerland by turns, according to the
interest of the moment, at one time in favour of the federal
sovereignty, and at another of the cantonal one.
The Courrier Francais says: "It is announced
that negotiations have been opened between the go-
vernments of France and England, in order to arrive
at an arrangement for the modification of the treaty,
signed by the Duke de Broglie, for the suppression of
the slave trade on the western coast of Africa. The
modification sought is the diminution of the number
of the vessels of the two squadrons, whose crews are
decimated by sickness; and at the same time the
adoption of efficacious and direct measures against
the sovereigns of the coast of Africa, who are known,
for openly carrying on the trade."
The Mediterranean squadron, consisting of five
ships of the line or frigates, and two steamers, was off
Leghorn on the Bth.
According to the last accounts, Marshal Soult had
recovered from the indisposition which created so
much alarm amor.g his family and friends.

We have before ns the journals of Madrid of the
10th and 11th, and letters from individuals of all
parties. The engrossing topic is, of course, the
treachery of the ex-favourite, now Captain-General of
Grenada. It appears from these adv ices that this in-
dividual, only a few days previously to the 3rd inst.,
solemnly declared that there was nothing to which he
was not prepared to submit, rather than become in
any manner instrumental to the return to power of
Narvaez and the French party, entertaining, as he
affirmed that he did, the profound conviction that their
ultimate object was to extort by any means, no matter
how base, an abdication from the Queen, and to place
the Duke of Montpensier on the throne. Yet this
sanie Serrano, on the 3rd, lent himself to the same
Narvaez, for the very purpose which he thus con-
demned and denounced. He did more : he consented
to be the mouthpiece by which the Queen was ter-
rified into the late measures, by the fabricated tale of a
conspiracy of the progresistas against her —of that party
of which Serrano has always professed to be the
friend. Oa discovering, after the catastrophe of
the 3rd and 4th, the lie that had been palmed upon
her, the Queen, says the Eco del C'oniercio, ordered
the person who had denounced the pretended con•
spiracy to her not to appear any more in the palace.
M. C;ilvo, formerly editor of the Clamor Publico, has
published a letter, in which he affirms, among other
things, that General Serrano told him at La Granja
that the Queen thought that the moment had arrived
when she might with advantage select her ministers
from the progresistas, and that the favourite on this
occasion spoke in the first person, assuming without
reserve the real possession of the royal authority. "It
is possible," said he, " that I may find it necessary to
select a ministry from the first progresistas that pre-
sent themselves, for the party is on the eve of entering I
the cabinet."
Various accounts are given to explain the influence
exercised by Serrano in bringing into power his I
declared enemies and throwing ovcrboard his own
party, while, at the same time, his own fall was at
hand. It is said that the Queen had, for some time,
manifested a declining regard for him, and that his
homage was from day to day visibly less acceptable ;
that, seeing his ultimate fall inevitable, he de-
termined to turn to the most profitable account
an attachment not quite extinct. He made his
bargain accordingly with Narvaez, agreeing to
withdraw on stipulated conditions; he agreed to bel
the messenger of the fictitious progressist conspiracy,
to convince the Queen of its reality, to exhibit Espar-
tero as prepared to overturn her throne, and thus
compel her to dismiss the Salamanca cabinet, to
throw herself upon the protection of Narvaez and
the French party, and to recall the Queen Dowager
to aid her in her distress and danger. All this Ser-
rano faithfully executed, and has received his reward,
a part of which is a sum estimated at thirty millions
of reale.
The 10th being the anniversary of the birth of
Queen Isabella there was a grand reception at the
palace. The moderados gave out that the King would
uresent himself either on that occasion or• at the ball
the evening. Nothing of the kind however oc-

The brother of Munoz is appointed intendant of the

General Serrano left Madrid for Grenada on the
evening of the 10th.
Letters from the frontiers say that French and
English cabinet couriers succeed each other on their
routes both ways, north and south, with extraordinary
frequency.

A letter from Berne, dated the 9th, and published
in La Prase, says that St. Gall awl the Grisone
had decided on the Bth to support such executive
measures as might be adopted by the majority of the
Diet against the Sonderbund. If this be confirmed
(and there appears no ground at present for doubting
it) nothing can prevent a civil war in Switzerland,
save the amicable mediation of a foreign power towards
which both parties will entertain respect and confi-
dence.

Letters from Florence state that a negotiation
has been going on between the Duke of Lucca and
the Archduke of Tuscany ever since the former left
his principality and appointed a Regency, with the
view of the annexation of Lucca to Tuscany, and the
I abdication of its present sovereign, but that the

EvING, OCTOBER 18, 1847.

grettestsecrecy was observed. The agents employed
in this negotiation were Mr. Wailful' Eagliahmani on
the part of the Duke of Loma, and M. Homfil on the
part of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. As an indem-
nity for this cession of territory, the Grand Duke of
Tuscany is to pay to the Duke of Lucca an annuity
of 48,0001.,*until the duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and
0 uastalla, now held by the Archduchess Maria Louisa,
shall descend to the latter prtnee, which they. will do,
in virtue of the treaty of Vienna, on the demise of the

Archduchess.
The Marquis Munro's, President of the Connell
of Regency, announced this event at Lucca, where it
was received with the greatest enthusiasm. ATe
Deem was sung in the churches on the occasion.
The Count Gherardesca, grand major-domo of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany, proceeded on the 10th inst.
to Lucca, accompanied by a body of Tuscan troops,
and took formal possession of the principality in the
name of his sovereign.
It will be recollected that, on the occasion of a
popular demonstration which took place at Turin on
the 30th ult., the police committed some acts of an
offensive and culpable nature, besides being in oppo-
sition to immediate instructions given them by
those in superior authority. The Marquis de Villa
Marina, Minister of War, under whose authority the
police were placed, and who, by his enlightened and
liberal opinions, has acquired the highest popularity,
advised that the police functionaries thus culpable
should be dismissed. Tke King not consenting to
this, the liberal minister has resiped, to the great
grief of the public and the army. The Count Broglie
de Casalbwgone has been appointed in his place, a man
of integrity, bat an absolutist of the moat inflexible
spirit.
As a conlrceoup for this discomfiture of the liberal
party, another measure has been taken by Charles
Albert, which will be not less offensive to the
Austrian and jesuitical faction. The Count Solar
della Margerita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, having
been iifformed by the King himself of the retirement
of his liberal colleague, and exulting in an event so
auspicious for the absolutist policy of which the count
is a zealous and unflinching partisan, returned to his
hotel, on arriving at which he found an autograph
note from the King demanding his own immediate
resignation. This was, of course, complied with, and
he has bees, succeeded by Count Asinari de San
Marzano, minister at Naples, a man of probity, but
having no force of character or political ability.
These measures have exasperated both parties. The
walls were everywhere inscribed in large characters
with " Viva Villa Marina! Viva it ministro liberale!"
Lord Minto was still at Turin on the 11th, and had seve-
ral conferences with the Kingand M.Corboli Bussi, the
nuncio of the Pope. It was understood thut the bases
of the Italian Customs League had been agreed on by
Rome, Tuscany, and Piedmont.
The Marquis Alfieri di Sostegno, regent of public
instruction, a liberal and popular statesman, has been
raised to the bead of that department.
Letters from Napha of the Bth and 9th have been
received, the latter of which allow us to indulge some
hopes that a better spirit is about to prevail in the
royal councils. It is affirmed that the insurgents exe-
cuted are infinitely less in number than they have
been reported to be. The Journal des lYbuts says
that their number does not exceed seven, consisting of
one at Reggio, five at Gerace, and one at Messina.
Considering, however, the source from which the
Dlats most probably derives its information, we
must be allowed to suspend our assent to this very
questionable estimate. Three proclamations were
lined at Messina by General Landi, two of which
are dated the 30th ult., and the third the Bth inst.
The first calls on the population to lay down their
arms; the second puts hors de lei ten individuals by
name, declaring that they may severally be put to death,
not only by the military, but may be murdered with
impunity by any individual whatever, and that any
such murderer will receive a reward of 300 ducats for
each such individual as he shall so murder, and 1,000
ducats will be given to any one who will betray and 1
deliver up alive any one of such individuals to the
authorities.
According to a writer in the Nourelliste there
are hopes of the speedy pacification of the king-
dom and the adoption of a system of reform by the
King. It appears that on the 7th his Majesty
presided at a cabinet council, at which the actual state
of the country was seriously considered. The opinion
of the majority of the ministers was that the largest
possible popular concessions should be made, and that
this opinion prevailed with the King, who intended,
as was reported, to proclaim a general amnesty. On
the morning of the 9th a council was again convened, at
which M. Pietracatells, who had lately withdrawn from
the royal councils becture his advice in favour of con-
cessions was n.d accepted, attended. From this fact
, little doubt was entertained that the amnesty would
Ibe decided on. The council was still sitting at the
moment this letter was despatched.
The Currier de Marseilles states positively, on the
authority of accounts from Naples, that Bumf-conduits
arc now delivered by the authorities of Calabria, to all
persons compromised by the insurrection who wish to
avail themselves of this protection, which appears to
be the first step to an amnesty.
A correspondent of the Constituti,oine/ writes from
Rome on the Bth : " A review of the national guard
with the troops of the line took place yesterday after-
noon, outside the Porta del Popolo. After some ma.
necuvres, the soldiers of bothbodics piled theirarms and
mingled together, embracing each other, and exclaim-
ing, Long live Italian fraternit ! Italy for ever!
Long live Pius IX!' They then marcbedback into Rome
followed by immense crowds of the people, their bands
playing the national hymn. All the houses of the
Corso were immediately illuminated. In the Piazza'
de Venitia, where the Austrian ambassador resides, the
troops and guards redoubled their cries, adding, ' The
independence of Italy for ever!' Out with the
foreigner Hurrah for the first cannon shot!' "
The Popo held a secret consistory on the 4th, in
which, after an address, his holiness went through
the ceremony of assigning priestly titles to Cardinals
Girard and Dupont, who were created in the consis-
tory of the 11th of June last. His holiness gave to
the former that of St. Mary of Peace, and to the
latter that of St. Mary of the People.

MADRID, Orr. 11.
General Serrano has disappeared from the scene of
his brief exaltation, pursued by the hootings and execrations
of the progresista press. No sooner was the shield of the
royal favour withdrawn than a shower of stinging pens as-
sailed the exposed turncoat, who has not met with even the
poor comfort of having a word said in his defence by the
party to which he has deserted. The ex-favourite set out
on Saturday night for his command at Grenada. It is sup-
posed that he will not remain there long, but proceed soon to
Cadiz, to embark for some foreign shore, where he may
linger, living on the wages of his disgrace, till his unfortu-
nate celebrity has paled out of the remembrauce of his
countrymen.
' Ido not believe that the exact sum is known which was
stipulated between Narraez and Serrano as the price of the
latter's retirement; but it is stated at 30 miLions of real.,
that being the worth of the encamienda, or estate of the order
of Calatrava, which hasbeen assigned to hie possession. 'lrh.s
bargain is said to have been arranged by General Serrano's
mother, who has long been desirous of extricating her son
safely. from the perilous eminence which he occupied.
It is impossible to look upon the present state of things
without the gloomiest forebodings. The position of the
Queen, thanks to the admirably-contrived marriage plot, and
to the virtue of the progresistss, is just what her worst
enemies would wish. A gulf yawns at her feet, and she is
surroucded by the persons, of all others, who are most in.
tereated in pushing her in. If any proof were wanting as to
the nature of Narvatz's designs, the appointment of the
Condesa de Montijo as camarera mayor, would furnish the
most glaring and conclusive argument that his object is to
lower the Queen in the eyes of Spain and Europe by ex-
posing her at the age of 17 to the contamination of society
that could gain admittance into no other court on the con-
tinent. Can there be conceived a greater contrast than tbe
new camarera mayor presents to the high-minded lady
Madame Mina, to whom that deeply responsible charge was
entrusted during the regency. The turn which is giving to
things under the auspices of the Afrancesados is but too
• evident. Nothing short of a miracle can Rave the Queen.
Yesterday the Queen completed her 17th year. There
was a levee in the afternoon and a ball in the evening, at the
palace. The brilliancy of both is boasted of by the little
Monday supplements of the moderado papers, as exhibiting
a great contrast to the scant attendance at the levees under
puritan auspices. But the grand thing of the night was the
hymn to Pius IX., sung in the Circus Theatre, or Madrid
Opera. The people were in ecstasies, shook the house with
their applause, and would have it over again. The Queen was
tnere, seemingly in much depression of spirits. Not the least
notice was taken of her by the audience, adhough it would
have been but natural, while such compliments were being
offered to a foreign sovereign, to have remembered their own,
on her birthday too.
There was an illumination of a dingy kind in the streets;
soda prodigious Y 2 flared in gas over the door of the Post-
seem. General Chacon is appointed military governor of
Madrid. Pidal has returned from the Asturias.
The government have desired the budget lately presented
to the Cortes to be laid before them, to examine and reform
the same previous to the meeting of the chambers.
Concha entered Yids on Sept. 3, with six battalions
of chasseuts and 300 horses. Early the next morning the
troops set out in pursuit of the rebels, of whom they eaugSt

la body of twelve. A mat nOokbor h*r* resented them-
selves for pardon. The Prewar we"e4zeo for continuing
to radio, patio.' oracle., without m sking the usual deposit
of 600,000 reels. Don Isidro Alabi ;I wade tituto de Cas-
tilla, Conde de Bertram, and Vizeonda of-Villa Robledo.

MONTREAL, BEFT. 27.
You will be happy to hear that, with the severely
hot weather, the malignancy of the emigrant fever nal eon-
aiderably abated. Instead of 30 a day the deaths are now
only 12, and the medical attendants are able to discherge
from the sick sheds much larger numbers.
The governor. general, with Lady Elgin and her sister, is I
on a visit to Quebec, greatly rejoicing the inhabitants of the
"ancient capital of Canada' by his presence and the courts-
aim of the &may. Addresses have been presented by all
the public bodies, and by the national societies of St. George,
St. Andrew, and St. Patrick, and St. Jean Baptiste for
Canada, each vieing with the others in expresaions of heart-
felt congratulation. St. Jean Baptiste, on all occasions
sparing in political commendations, comes out with the fol-
lowing:
The ancient lebabitante of thin city have always minced a lively
pleasure In greeting with loyalty the representative of their sovereign
end it am* them peculiar satisfaction to recognise in your excel-
lency a jolt and impartiat protector of thole instibitions. their
Jonporige, sod their lames. The society beg that your eseellent7 will
be pleased to solver to lady ElrVn the expression of their sincere and
profound respect fur her bid ip, and the agreeable reminiscence
which the members of this soe My still retainof her too abort residence
and that of her noble faintly among them.
This from Quebec, which has recently witnessed the or-
ganisation of a formidable reform association in hostility to
his excellency's present government, must be viewed as lac
gunge significant of the failure of the attempt to engender
discontent. The province, indeed, exhibits a state of pnliti-
cal calm remarkable for the country, and highly promising
as respects the success of the Earl of Elgin's administration
of its affairs.
His excellency, it is understood, will visit Upper Canada
after his return from Quebec.
Deputations from each of the Lower Provinces have been
invited to meet the governor-general to discuss the prelimi-
naries of a system which should unite the customs depart-
ments and the pose-offices of all British America under one
administration. When this shall have been effected, the
general political union of all will be greatly facilitated. The
still unsettled difficulty with the United States Post-
office has greatly increased the desire for a line of railroad
between Halifax and Quebec, which will render these pro-
vinces in their intercourse with Europe independent of a
neighbour with whom we seem destined to hay, always
some material misunderstanding. The new fortifications
at Quebec and Montreal are proc, eding with energy. It
seems to be understood by the British government that the
military tendencies of the republic are in a course of develop-
ment for which it would be by no means wise to be alto-
gether unprepared. An opinion has long prevailed in the
United States among all classes that Canada will be an easy
acquisition whenever the interests or passions of the people
point to such an augmentation of their already overgrown
territory. 'I he events of the Mexican campaign have by no
means abated the force of the conviction. The leading news.
papers of the states openly avow the existence of a deep-
seated desire to humble the pretensions of the British flag.
They will not find the Canadians quite so yielding a foe as
they have found the Mexicar.s, should the day of hostility in
the field unhappily arrive. The last time General Scott
carried the American flag across the Canadian frontier, he
was carried into Montreal as a prisoner. What he will be
in the " Halls of the Monterumas " remains to be seen.
Commercial business is in full sad prosperous activity,
although the failures at home and here, growing out of the
wheat speculation, have not been without their effect.

FRANCE.—Psnt,3, Orr. 16.—Prince de Joinville
arrived at Toulon on the 10th, and was to embark the same
evening or the next day in the Cacique steamer, to join the
Mediterranean squadron.
FRENCH REVENUE.—The Moniteur publishes the
following table of the receipts of indirect taxes for the firat
nine months of the present year :

1447. 1046.
Registration dues, 840. ..—.— 165,819,0001r. 159,237,000
Stamps
Customs 61,679,000 70,738,000
Narigstion
French colonial sugars ...—.—
Foreign sugars 5,329,000 7,010,030
Corn .
Import daimon onadrins .—...
=1,06 ca swageks—.. 1,676,101 1,332,000
Mos
Galt 010... ..—.— 46,332,041 44,236,000
Potable Spars 72,700,900 75,224,000
Paella carriages sot aline W. taxes 29,313,099 30,539,400
Tobacco sales ... 86,440,000 85,683,000
Gunpowder sales 5,173,006 4,09 4,9n0
Letters and data on sendinglanney 36,789,000 37,204,000
For passengers by the malles-postes 1,340,000 1,679,000
Ditto by malts and packets

Total ..
Showing a decrease of 2,493.0001. Compared with 1645,
there is an increase of 10,690,0001.
CASE or M. A. DEN will be remembered
that on the 23rd of June last, M. Adolphe Denain, a young
man of distinguished family, called upon IC Mdrilhou, peer
of France, his legal guardian, and, after some altercation,
demanded his signature to an order on the treasurer of the
Court of Caseation, for 1,8001., 'and a promissory note for
3,000 f., purporting to be a balance of account due front M.
Illerilhou. That gentleman having refused to comply
with this request, H. Donau drew forth two
loaded pistols, and M. Merilhou, in his struggle
with him to prevent fatal consequences, received
several injuries. M. klerilhou having disarmed the in-'
furiate young man, the latter attempted to Hy, but was &e-
-roded. He was brought to trial for the attempt to extort
money by menaces. In answer to the questions put to him,
he declared that he was in a state of great excitement when
he called on M. Merilhou, but that he had no other inten-
tion than to frighten that gentleman into giving him fresh
amounts respecting his property under the guardianship.
M. hierilhou appeared as a witness, and, after giving
an account of what passed on the 23rd of June, as
stated in the Messrmger at the time, added that when he
had declared to M. Denain that he owed him nothing, the
latter said, "I am desperate, and am now under the ne-
cessity either of drowning myself or appearing before the
Court of Assize." As he pronounced these words he drew
out a pistol and pointed it at the witness. el. Merilhou fell
upon him and got possession of the pistol, when Denain
drew forth another, but, after a desperate struggle, M.
Merilhou overpowered him, and got possession of that also.
M. Iderilhou said he was much hurt, and his face was
covered with blood ; but his wounds were fortunately
superficial. Other witnesses were called in corroboration,
and, after eloquent addresses to the jury on behalf of the
prisoner by MM. Moulin and Millet, he was found guilty,
and sentenced to fire years of seclusion, without exposure on
the pillory.
MALTA, OCT. 7.—lmmediately after the arrival
of the French steamer from Athens, on the 4th, • day be-
hind her time, having been detained by the French ambas-
sador, the Gladiator steam-frigate got up her steam and went
Ml' immediately to the N.E., to what place no one knew,
though Messina was rumoured. In consequence of Malta
being in quarantine, the French boat from Athens will re-
main here until the ith, the day of the arrival of the steamer
front Marseilles and Naples, take out her mails and passen-
gers, and proceed again ts the eastward. The steamer of the
ith will take mails only, in a tuned box, and return the name
day to Naples and Marseilles. As the Hand will not be in
pratique until the 16th, and the India mails will arrive about
the 13th, they will, if opened here, or are in bags, have to be
all fumigated at Marseilles unless the French government, as
formerly, allow the passasto to count is the period of qua.
rantine ; in that case the steamer has only to arrive on the
16th or after, and she will he in free pratique, equally with
I the island. Our hoard of health has decided that all vessels
arriving from places infected with cholera shall remain
twelve days under sail outside the port, and then be allowed
to enter and perform a period of quarantine, to be decided
on according to circumstances. Many of the letters received
by the last Neapolitan steamer were opened at the consulate,
and then forwarded in that state to their address. How
long is this to be allowed—for a consul to commit a felony in
a British possession with impunity ? There is a rumour
abroad that Prince Charles of Capua has left the island and
gone to Calabria.
TURKEY.—SmTRNA, SEPT. 28.—Notwithstanding
the vigilance of our police the environs of Smyrna teem with
robbers, in such numbers as to render travelling unsafe even
with an armed escort. The courier who left on Monday
night was attacked, about vii miles from the city, by a band
of eight or ten robbers. They shot his horse, and then
plundered him of some 200,000 piastres. The courier re-
turned immediately to get assistance, whilst his guard took
up a position upon a little eminence, and began to tire upon
the spot where his horse fell, to prevent the robbers making
off with the booty, with a chance of wounding or killing
them, as it was too dark to see anything. A firing was
kept up for an hour on both sides, and one of the
guards was killed, when the police came up, and the
robbers took to Hight; the next day they were all arrested,
and arc now in prison. Unless the government punishes
these robbers and assassins as they merit, all the precautions
in the world will not put a stop to their attacks upon lives
and property. The English brig of war. Fantome, Com. Le
Hardy, and the Harlequin, Com. Moore, left port on the
22nd ; the first for the Iles d'Ourlae, and the second for the
Pincus. Letters from Scio mention that torrents of rain
fell for two entire days. It was a perfect deluge ; the
streams it formed were like rivers, and carried away cattle,
trees, houses, and everything in their way. Several lives
were lost
CHlLL—VALrAttAlso.—Newa to the 27th of July
have been received via Havana. A law has been pained,
authorising the construction of a railroad from Valparaiso
to Santiago. The charter is for 30 years, the government
guaranteeing an interest of 5 per cent. on the capital of
6,000,000 dollars for 10 years. The country was tranquil,
and the proceedings of the National Legislature offered
nothing of special interest.