The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-20 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW TEAR'S
OWLS for all who easit the Gay end restive ficenew—ROIV-
LANDS' MACK..Iit OIL, • preserver and beautifier of the hair
beyond precedent. lowlands' Calydor, for imparting •
tullant Moose to the ooreplexton, end a softness and delicacy to
*ahead% anus. and neck. Rowlands' Odouto, or Pearl De Al-
lele% tor (Wag a pearl hke whiten.. to the teeth and fr.:mice
to the breath. The patronage of royalty throughout Europe,
their general use by rank and fashion, and the mire:nay known
'Sean of these articles, glee them • celebrity unpar•lieled.—
geld by A. ROWLAND and SONS, Katesegardeo, sad by
aboadola and peatuabers.—Aak for " towlando'" aruchn.

INTZRNATIONAL EXHIBITION. —The beautiful
silver grey granite obelisk, which stood in the nave, exe-
cuted and exhibited by Mr. William Sim, and which ob-
tained a pries medal, was sold by auction on Thursday last,
in the Eshibition building, by Messrs. Green and Son,
auctioneers, of St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill. It was bought
by a gentleman to be sent out to Algoa Bay, for the poi,
pow of being erected there as a memorial to a leading man
recently deceased. The sale of the first portion of the
extensive plant, &c., of the refreshment departments was
concluded on Thorday. Upwards of 10,0004 has been
realised by the first portion only. MINIM Green and Son
will commence the second portion on January 12, 186:1.
THE TURKISH EXHIBITION.—Tbe building for
this enterprise has made visible prayer during the week,
and bids fair to be ready to receive its contents by the
time fixed. As this last approaches, however, it becomes
increasingly doubtful if the contents will be forthcoming
with similar punctuality for the building. If &deices from
the provinces indeed are to be credited, the specimens of
both raw and manufactured goods to be sent promise to be
at least various and abundant enough for a structure of
twice the sire, but the difficulties attending their collec-
tion, and especially their transport to the capital in the
dead of winter, threaten to compel some cousiderable
delay in the opening of the show. Mustapha Pasha and
his colleagues is the direction of the enterprise are
exerting themselves with an energy worthy of the Ken.
sington Royal Commissioners, but circumstances are likely
to prove too much for them, so far as punctuality in the
inauguration of their undertaking is concerned. The ori-
ginal idea, besides having grown from a single spertment of
so extracedinary dimensions into the relatively huge budd-
ies now in progress
.in the Hippodrome, is kw, we learn, to
develop into an annexe" for machinery, to consist chiefly
of egricoltural implemeuta from England, with motive steam
power for the whole to be supplied by an engine from
Zeitonn-bournou. The rates of admission have been fixed at
2p. fork: days of the week, and fip. for the seventh—Satur-
day. Though this seems a low rate of charge, it will proba-
bly be found high in effect. As no one, however, expects the
undertaking to pay in a commercial IMO, this will matter
but little.—Leeent Herold, Dee. 10.
A JOKY BY 1)//.. GRAY.—Sir Rowland Hill writeo •
to the elthentrion :—" In the last number of the At erterrese.
von give an extract from ' A Hand Catalogue of Postage
Stamps,' by Dr. Grey, of the British Museum, which nearly
concerns me. I have procured the book itself, and I find '
that the statements therein, though eat very clear,
to animist substantially to this, via., that the ormosp=aorf
the scheme of penny postage, so far at lout as ita main fee-
tures of a email and uniform rate of postage to be prepaid
by stamps are concerned, originated with Dr. Gray, and
that owing I. hie being cseupied at the Museum whde, for
maws, which he assigns, I had plenty of leisure, be coin-
manniested the plan to me, in order that I might bring it
before the public. If this strange story is not intended for
a joke, it amount' to one of the most extraordinary hallo-
Obeli**. on record. But however this may be, most
assuredly the statement has sot the slightest foundation i.
fact"

The Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson
has joined General Lee at Fredericksburg.
It is rumoured that the Confederate cavalry
under General Stuart is on the north side of the
Rappahannock, moving between the Federal forces
of Generals Burnside and Sigel.
The Southern journals say that the Fedorals are
crossing the Rappahannock at Port RoyaL The
same journals think that an attack on Richmond
will be made simultaneously by a Federal column
from Fredericksburg and another from Suffolk,
and by the fleet on the James River, but that the
Confederates are prepared for such an attempt.
The Confederates have again been repulsed in an
attack upon Cave-hill, Arkansas.
It is rumoured that the Federal expedition under
General Banks has been landed at Petersburg,
Virginia.
The committee of ways and means has introduced
a bill into Congress providing for an issue of
1,000,000,000 dollars, in bonds similar in amount
and form to those authorised by the act of
February, 1862, with the interest payable in
United States lawful money, and the principal pay-
able in twenty years in gold or silver coin of the
United States.

Also the issue of legal tender notes, the amount
not to exceed, with those already authorised,
500,000,000 dollars, in order to enable the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to call in all 5.20 and 7.30
Treasury bonds now in circulation, and to cancel
them ; and authorising the Sectetary to redeem
legal tender notes held as loans, and bearing
interest.

The committee has further proposed that the
Jaw authorising the payment of interest on United
States bonds in gold should be repealed.
The bill saws at the virtual suppression of the
banks, by imposing a tat of 50 per cent. upon all
their circulation over one-half of the amount of
their capital paid in.
• The House of Representatives has passed a bill
indemnifying President Lincoln for suspending the
writ of habeas corpus.
Large quantities of horses are being purchased in
New York for shipment to the French army in

A meeting has been held at the Produce Ex-
change for the relief of the distress in Lancashire.
Speeches were made urging British and American
philanthropy to meet half way, and build up a new
temple of reconciliation, in which Americana and