The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

CESSATION OF FRENCH HOSTILITIES ON

TILE MOORISH COAST.

The Peninsular Company's steamer, Indus, Cap-
tain Soy, arrived at Southampton yesterday ; she left
Southampton on the 3rd of last month, as an extra steamer
to Alexandria. She has brought home 60 passengers and
ship mail- from India, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar. Iler
news from India las been anticipated by the Overland
India Mail vin Marselles, which arrived a day or two since.
When the Indus left Malta on the 27tti ult., the following
of her Majesty's ships were there, viz. :—Queen, Terrible,
Indefatigable, Trafalgar, Ceylon, Albion, Ganges, Superb,
Vengeance, Spiteful, Medina, Mcdura, Bellerophon, Mode-
rate, Encounter, Hercules, Dragon, Oberon, Caradoc,
Ardent, Merlin. She brings a day's later news from
Gibraltar than the Tagus, as she did not leave that por-
before the 2nd instant.

By the British consular despatch boat (says the Gibraltar
Chronicle of the above date); which left Tangier on the
29th ult., and arrived at Gibraltar on the 30th, news was
brought that on the morning of the 29th the French consult
general for Morocco and several officers of the squadron of
the same nation which were at anchor in that bay landed and
had an interview with Sidi Mahemed Elgtibh, Bsshaw of the
province and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emperor Ab-
derhaman, and Mr. Drummond Hay the British charge
d'affaires. The conference, during which the population
was in the greatest anxiety, lasted for some time, and
shortly after the admiral's ship fired a salute of 21 guns,
land the compliment was duly returned by the town, in
token, as was generally understood, of a settlement of the
differences having been agreed to by the Admiral Dubor-
dicu and the Minister. The terms are not known, and pro-
bably will not transpire until an answer be returned from
the Emperor, to whom they have been submitted. It is
confidently reported that Mr. Hay's friendly interposition
contributed to the happy issue of the conference.
The consternation which prevailed in the city was thus
dispelled, and the population reassured.
Mr. Borell has again resumed his functions as consul-
general.
The Janus, Commander Powell, had started for Rabat
and the coast as far as Mogadore.
The French liner left Tangier at daylight oa the 28th,
and was seen steering westward some hours after. There
is a different version of the loss she sustained before Salee,
one killed and seven wounded, instead of seven killed.
The four steamers remain in Tangier.
The following i• an extract from the Gibraltar Chronicle
of the 26th ult.:" With reference to Melilla letters of the
13th inst., the editor of the Correa *le Atm:Panda states, in
his No. of the 21st, that the negotiations for the ransom of
the crew of the Violet were in a state of forwardness, not-
withstanding the difficulties arising from the covetousness of
the captors, the exorbitancy of whose demands increases in
proportion to the anxiety expressed fur the liberation of the
captives."

TILE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S
STWIlit TAGUS, Captain Russell, arrived at Southamp.
ton on Saturday, from Constantinople, Malta, and Gibral-
tar. Captain Russell was the bearer of Lieutenant Powell's
commission as commander from the admiral at Malta.
Lieutenant Powell has been for a long time in command of
H.M.S. Janus at Gibraltar, and was severely wounded
very recently in an attack on the Moorish &ate,. Lieut.
Powell, however, was at Tangiers when his commission
arrived. This gallant and efficient officer will not be
removed from the Janus in consequence of his promotion
until the Moorish question is settled. All the surviving
officers of the Janus who were in the late engagement with
the pirates have been promoted. The Tagus left Gibraltar
two days after the Sultan. She brought news that the
French hostilities on the Moorish coast had ceased.

TUE SMITEYIELD CLUB CATTLE Snow.—The
Observer says: The extensive arrangements fir the open-
ing of this popular annual exhibition (no doubt the first
cattle show in England) on Tuesday next were on Satur-
day night finally completed, and, notwithstanding the vast
increase of specimens in every department, the enlarge-
ment of the building has enabled the proprietor and
managers of the King-street Bazaar so to distribute them
as to afford a much better opportunity for the view, and
likewise to add to the comfort of the public. On Saturday
afternoon the arrival of his Royal Highness Prince Albert's
stock, coneisting of three or four oxen, two or three pens of
pigs, and some pens of Southdown sheep from the
Flemish farm at Windsor, rio the Great Western Rail-
way, excited a commotion in the vicinity of the Bazaar.
The attention of the public, hundreds of whom
had assembled in King-street, was more particularly at-
tracted in consequence of the violence of one of these
11 animals, and an untoward event which took place. A very
fine oz, as we understood, of the Highland breed, was con-
rayed irom the railway to the yard in a covered racehorse
van, which on its arrival, was found too high to enter the
gateway, and it was therefore rendered necessary to take
the specimen out in the street. On the attempt being
made, the animal, which is an extraordinary specimen,
having a species of third horn or tusk growing from the
centre of the forehead, became quite unmanageable and so
ferocious, that not only its keepers, but even several
butchers, were afraid to approach it. Having succeeded in
getting him from the van, he made a furious rush amongst
DM people, dispersing them in every direction, and nearly
three-quarters of an hour elapsed before he was dragged by
I main force with a rope round his bead into the building.
Amongst the other competitors whose contributions were
received were several pens of sheep (South Down wethers)
from Goodwood, belonging to the president of the club, the
Duke of Richmond ; the Earl of Laieester, three oxen and
pens of sheep ; Lord Feversham, cattle and sheep ; Lord
Berner+ pens of sheep and pies ; the Right Hon. Charles
Shaw Lifevre, pens of sheep and Hickfold pigs ; the Earl
of Burlington, ox and sheep • the Marquis of Exeter, speci-
mens of short and long horned sheep ' • Earl Spencer, oxen ;
pens of sheep from Sir G. S. Sebright. Bart. ; Sir J. Conway,
pens of pigs ; the Right lion. Earl Walsingham, pens of
sheep ; Lord Sondes, a fine ox ,• the Right Hon. Lord Bray-
brooke, pens of South Down shetp ; Sir Charles Knightly,
cows and extra stock ; the Earl of Warwick, a re-
markably fine Devon ox; Sir E. C. Johan, an ox; Lord
Portman, specimens of sheep and oxen. On the right
hand side of the show yard on entering, where the first
and second class cattle usually have stood head to head,
the second clam animals are now placed with their heads
to the eastern ball, leaving a passage between them and
the first elms, so that an uninterrupted view can be ob-
tained by passing down the eastern avenue of both these
classes. It will, no doubt, obviate a great deal of the
crowding which has taken place.