The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
SCOAlt.—The market has opened with a steady appear-
ance, and the public sales are progressing at last week's
currency. The refined market is without alteration ; grocery
lumps, 451. to 475. 6d.
Correa.—The public salsa are going off without spirit.
,700 bags native Ceylon have been sold by private contract,
at 475., which is a full price.
TEL.—The market is steady, but not active.
Srimas —Pimento : 100 bags offered, and bonght in, at
61., which was a high price. 180 bags white Pepper sold
ato Si. Cinnamon : The quarterly sale went off heasily
yesterday ;Ist and 2nds sold at 2d. decline ; 3rds, previous
prices.
Corros.-1,000 bales sold yesterday on 'Change, and the
market has an upward tendency.
In other artic:es no material alteration.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. llarii reports a short supply, at the following
quotations :—Prime meadow Hay, 803. to 855.; inferior,
703. to 755. ; Rowen, 503. to 60s. ; Clover, 90s. to 100 s.;
second cut, 70s. to DOs. ; Straw, 27e. to 32a.

TALLOW HARKET.-THIS DAY.
The market is steady, with • better demand from the
trade. Town Tallow is quoted 445. nett cash ; Peters-
burg Y.C. on the spot, 455. to 44e. 9d. ; January to March,
44a. 6d.; October to December(new), 44a. 61. to 44e. 9d.

SOCIETY FOR REGTJLATINe

BEEIMOUBZIL—A meeting of this society took place at the
Town-hall, Manchester, yesterday murnieg. The gentle-
men present were mostly clergymen and ministers of relj-
gion. Mr. W. Pairbaun, C.E., presided, and said he
doubted the legislative propriety of promoting free trade in
intoxicating liquors, or of extending houses of entertain-
ment on that principle ; and he thought it 1183 not proper
for government to derive a revenue from the sale of that
which tended to the demoralisation of the people. Ile
hoped the society would get up a petition to parliament
fur getttng rid of the evil. A report was read from the
committee, and a variety of speeches were made by clergy-
men. One of them, the Rev. Hart Ethelston, spoke of the
serious evil of permitting gin palaces to be open on Sundays
for the sale of " liquid fins" and " distilled damnation."
Mr. Miller, surgeon, made • temperance speech. The Rev.
J. J. Taylor, Unitarian minister, said he felt a doubt as to
how far he had a right to interfere with the action of any
class of men, but he had seen so much evil resulting from
the present system that he thought a case was made
out for interference. Supposing that only adults were
injured by the system, perhaps they had no
tight to interfere with their liberty ; but it was
known that • large proportion of the people who went to
such houses were boys and youths under 18 or 20—persons
who bad not arrived at years of discretion—and he had no
doubt as to our right to protect them. The Rev. Robert
Limb thought, considering the rapid increase of our towns,
sufficient means had not been taken to check crime, a large
portion of which was traceable to drunkenness; and he
was for the removal of drunkenness as much as possible
and all incentives to it. The Rev. J. L. Poore said the
playing at dominoes, cards, billiards, and other chance
games, enticed many young people to such houses, and led
them on to intemperate habits. Mr. W. G. Ginty
said he did not agree with the proposal of the society to
get beerhouses placed under the care of magistrates to be
licensed as public houses were, because he had been en-
gaged with some other of the members of this society in
getting up statistics, and it hail been found as the result
of careful observation ia gathering those statistics that
there was more drunkenness and demoralisation is thaws

houses that were under the thumb of the magistrates then
in the beerhouses. [We leant that the parties associated
with Mr. Ginty in this inquiry also reported that there
was less drunkenness in houses where there were organs
and othet music—places which have been much decried—
than in other public houses.]
THE FRENCH EEPRESS.—A gentleman in this
city (Glasgow), who was for many years very intimate with
Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Malaga, the grandfather of Napoleon's
affianced bride, informs us that the current reports respect-
ing the family are, in some particulars, incorrect. Mr.
Thomas Kirkpatrick was the Swedish consul at Malaga,
and not the British. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was a Swedish lady
by birth, but her parents were British, and she was univer-
sally allowed to have been the handsomest lady in Malaga.
A sister of Mrs. Kirkpatrick's married Lieutenant-Colonel
G. Thomson, of the Royal Engineers. Mr. Kirkpatrick
had several children, ono of whom married the second son
of a Spanish duke, who, on the death of his elder brother,
succeeded to the family honours, and is the father of the
French Empress. It thus appears that, except through
her father, there is no Spanish blood in her veins ; and this
will account for her fair complexion and blue eyes—Nartft
British Daily Mail.
THE CASE OF CRUELTY IN THE GREENWICH
IT:store—Yesterday Mr. Carter concluded the inquest on
the body of John Gaywood, aged six years, whose barbarous
treatment by a nurse lately created so much public horror.
It will be remembered that at the last sittings of the Central
Criminal Court, the woman Oldham, who is about 50 years
of age, and was an inmate of the union, was tried for
assaulting the child by placing a piece of red hot coal in the
palm of its right hand, and keeping it there for some fibs
or six minutes, for which offence she was sentenced by the
Common Serjeant tol4 days imprisonment. Sometime elapsed
ere the cruel act was communicated to "tie authorities, and
medical aid was affor.led tho sufferer. A few days
after the trial an unfavourable change took place in his
state ; he gradually pined away, and died. After
nearly an hour's absence the jury returned into court, and the
foreman announced that their verdict was, that the deceased
lital died from water on the brain, accelerated by the injury
inflicted by the nurse, Mary Ann Oldham. Coroner :'t hat,
gentlemen, amounts to a verdict of manslaughter ; is that
your verdict ? Foreman: It is. The coroner then issued
his warrant for the committal of the woman Oldham to
Newgate, and bound over the witnesses to appear at the
trial.

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BATTERSEA PARK.—On Saturday her Majesty's
Commissioners of Works issued orders for the resumption
of the works for the formation of Battersea Park, which
have been discontinued for some time past, and on Tuesday
nroexutni agwreiallttksaalee
polfacoeldalt themiling materials
,taverenlearGedreft the
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pro-
gress bar been made in the embankment on both sides of
Albert
the river, and the works at the suspension bridge are consi-
derably advanced.
FRENCH COMPANIES AND THE GOVERNMENT.—It
is stated that the government is occupied with several
plans for buying up the jouissance shares o' certain compa-
nies—first, a sum of six millions, it is said, is to be devoted
to buying up the shares of the Company of the Canal de
Bourgogne; a title giving a right to 30 annuities of 346,9801.
each is to be given to that effect to the company for the
shares, which will be annulled. Secondly, a sum of
9,800,0001. is to be appropriate a to the purchase of the jOide.
&Wife shares of the Quatre Ciinaux ; a title giving a right to
30 annuities of 666,735 f. each is to be delivered to that
effcet to the company, in place of the shares, which are to
be annulled. Thirdly, a sum of 7.480,712 f. is to be appro-
priated to buying up of the jouissnrere shares of the cone•
pany of the canal from the Rhone to the Rhine ; a title
giving right to 30 annuities of 402,312 f. each is to be deli-
vered to that effect to the company for the shares, which are
to be annulled. Three credits, it is said, are to be opened
at the Ministry of Finance on the estimates of 18.53, for the
payment ot the first annuity amounting to the aggregate of
the three sums mentioned above.

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LONDON, TLTilD4]', FEBRUARY 1.

more than a league or two from the shoves of
England. Its gun-vessels should bo fit only for
coast defence, and the " forward ships," into which
a portion of the fencibles would be liable is
serve, must be commissioned only" for Channel err-
vice." This would be necessary to prevent the de-
li fence ships from being sent off to prop up the throne
of BRAGANZA, or to strengthen the great fortress of
the Scheldt. And one thing more. Any such sea
fencible force need not be costly, and the whole cost
of it might be met out of the fifteen millions now
voted for army and navy, if those two services were
only partially reformed. There is more money now
wasted in the navy, the dockyards, in the regiments
of Guards, and by the separation of the Ordnance
from the office of the Commander-in-Chief, than
would enrol, drill, arm, and equip a sea fencible force
sufficient to belt round the whole of the coasts of
Great Britain. By cutting away from the Army
sod Navy the costly absurdities which now weaken
them both, we should have an ample balance of' hard
cash to meet the cost of a thoroughly efficient
'Long Shore Militia:"—and when we are secure at
home, we may go safely to work to check expendi-
ture on wars abroad.

IT is stated that the Government have in contem-
pla:ion the establishment of a defensive Coast Militia.
Whether they think of adopting the Sea-Feneible
schedie of Captain ELLIOT, or whether they intend
to carry out any portion of Mr. ANDERSON'S sugges-
tions placid last session before the House of Com-
mons, for using the small mercantile steamers for I
delensieu purpose', does not yet appear. The only
statement is that some plan of the kind is under serious
consideration. Even the Peace Society will scarcely ob-
ject to this, since the abject in view is simply that of
belting our sea-shores with a body of volunteers, re-
cruited from that half-amphibious race who live
within reach of the sea-spray, as fish( rmen and boat-
men, and whose lives are spent almost as much upon
the water as the land. In the whole population of
She country there is not physically a finer set of fel-
lows than those commonly known as the '"Long-abore
men"—ready alike with oar or sail—to work a plea-
sure yacht, or man • life-boat, or, it may be, now and
then, to " run a cargo" when the revenue cut-
ter is not handy. Those most acquainted with
this class of our countrymen are best able to
appreciate their good seamanship, courage, self-
collectedness, and prudence in danger. Familiar
with the sea from childhood,—accustomed to exposure
in all 'canoes and all weathers.—ready fur adventure
and reckless of risks afloat,—knowing every shoal,
rock, current, and act of the tide, along the coast
where their lives are spent, they gain a sort of in-
stinctive knowledge of what can, and what cannot
be done in boats, whilst all that can be done they
are equal to do With such qualifications they
might, for coast defence, be invaluable.
As u class, their earnings are not large. Fishing
11111 i boating are neither the most regular nor the
most profitable of occupations; both being dependent
greatly sin weather and the seasons. Every visitor
to the sea-side has noticed how many idle hours
aro spent by these men on the beach—tinker-
ing a boat, mending a net, or patching a sail, are
their main resources hi spare time. But with all
these, they have still many idle hours on hand, that
might well be employed in exercises fitting such
sturdy fellows for a " 'Long-shore Police." A small
retaining fee would certainly induce thousands of
them to enrol themselves—to muster for drill
and to hold themselves in readiness for service, in
the event (which we trust may never arise) of any
attempt at hostile landing on our shores. Captain
3ta mar suggests that the coast should be divided
into districts, for the purpose of enrolling sea fenci-
bles for muster and exercise in boats, and with great
guns and small arms, at fixed periods of the year.
Men thus drilled might receive a payment sufficient
to satisfy them for the loss of one day
in ten or twenty, as the case might be ;
those who thus served to be eligible as candidates for
Greenwich Hospital, if age, injury, or misfortune
should reader them destitute. With a good force of
this character at command—and with vessels for
their use in case of need—it would not be necessary
to keep any additional,—or indeed any very large
muster ut ships of war either cruising in the Channel
or at Spithead. It would be sufficient to have an
ample supply of ships in an advanced state, on board
Of which the sea fencibles could be drafted for service I
should any imminent danger appear. Accustomed to
the sea from boyhood, and drilled to the new
duties, such :volunteer service might imrose
upon them, the sea militiamen would by the addition
of some old men-of-wars-men, form admirable
crews for fighting vessels. Of course, whilst so serv-
ing, the small retaining fee paid them whilst on
shore, would be replaced by liberal seagoing wages,
which the more ocerous duty on board ship would
make them worthy of. The "'long-shore men," not
needed for such service, would be available for em-
ployment in boats of shallow draught, fit for work
near shore, and each carrying a gun able to throw
heavy shot and—like the duck gun of the fowler—
ready to do terrible execution if brought to bear
upon any living creatures near the sea level. Such
guns towed by a small steamer into the neighbour-
hood of any hostile force attempting a landing
might do the greatest service against an enemy.
Owen might be drilled to use the proposed monster
mortars of the Patricroft foundry. It must be re-
membered that men thus trained would be not
only a strictly Alen:are force, but would merely
be brought into play should there be a real
—and not a possible—enemy to contend with.
To keep up a very large fleet ready for action
in the Channel is dreary work—to say nothing
of danger or cost ; whilst such a fleet
might be had at the shortest notice by
keeping ready for sea a moderate fleet, whilst •
a large sea fencible force and a number of vessels
ready but unmanned, waited only for the hour when
the presence of crews pn board them might be need-
ful. Such are some of the sugges:ed means for coast
security. How far such modes of defence are capa-
ble of satisfactory elaboration and perfection it is
not our present business to determine. We merely
seek to describe the plans put forward on the sub-
ject, now said to be under the consideration of the
Government.
Whilst ever ready to admit in the abstract the
desirability of universal peace, and ready to do all in
our power to disseminate the views of those who
preach against the horrors and folly of war, we have
never been led into the cry against securing
thorough national defences. Our argument has
been that we should be made perfectly secure against
aggression and be kept perfectly clear of aggressive
war—adding proofs enough of the fact that the
mealiest' now voted for war establishments give funds
'efficient to pay for every needful mode of defence.
We have a navy large enough if it was kept together,
and within hail, to make England unapproachable
by sea ; we have an army which, if concentrated
in England, would be able to give a good account of
any enemy who might cops with them. But then
our ships are in the Pacific, in the Indian Seas, in
the Irrawaddy, in the West Indies, in the Tagus--
anywhere and everywhere but where they sbotlitri;
when we want them. The ships, moreover, are too
often officered by men chosen rather for family than
meritorious reasons, and whilst the youthful and
energetic amongst them are pining on shore, the aged
and the effete are carrying off the prizes of the ser-
vice. Our army is in very much the same pickle.
We have soldiers in Canada, in the West Indies,
in the East Indies, in all sorts of out of the way
spots on the earth's surface where some-
body at some time or other in authority
thought soldiers ought to be—and sent them; and
whence nobody in authority has ever since thought
fit to break through the absurd and mischievous rule
by drawing them back again. We have forces scat-
tered in the West India Islands, for instance—split
up into bodies too small to offer any sufficient resist-
ance if an enemy should ever attack them in detail
and yet large enough to help with other such instal-
ments to weaken our chief centres of military occu-
pation. Yet there they are—left to be killed by
fever and to be spoiled by idleness, booms
in old slave-trade-days soldiers were lambi
"to keep down the blacks." Then, again, in Quads
we have regiments utterly useless for holding the
country against any serious revolt were such pos-
sible within that colony, and equally incompetent to
make any successful resistance should any attack be
possible from without. Canada is either quite old
enough intake care of herself ; or if she is not, she has
so far outgrown our leading strings that we could
not take much coercive hold of her if need should

unhappily arise fur such an attempt. Yet there
we have regiments useless, and there such regiments
will assuredly I e left. If under the plea of national
defence more regiments were raised, they. might at the
caprice of any Government for the time being be
shipped off to increue the number of these military
colonial absurdities or to wage war against impo-
verished Ilurmans or helpless Chinese. Not so a
sensibly organised Tong-shore police," which, if
well contrived, might be rendered purely defensive
whilst thoroughly efficient. A chief rule of its en-
rolment moat of cause be that it shall not be moved

TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1858.

terrace to some coarse jokes on the subject of the
marriage.
A serious eccident, of a kind likely to happen in
the untlni9hed Ruc Rivoli, occurred near the corner
of the Rue des Ituardonnais. A soldfolding fell
down and injured several people. Three women
were carried off in a dangerous state, and several
persons were more or less hurt.
PARIS SUNDAY RIMMING
_-. . - •

About 1 o'clock the Imperial vertigo arrived at
Note Dame ; the approach was announced by a
Sourish of trumpets and the music of a military
band, and the orchestra struck up. In a few minutes
the Emperor appeared, preceded by the great officers
1 state, and leading the Empress by the band to-
Mirde the altar. The Emperor -,,„re his usual caw
tome, and the Empress a gown of white velvet,
tensed fpingle, richly ornamented, and a diadem of
brWiants on her head. They were followed by the
Countses of Montijo, the Ladies of Honour, the /dim
etas, the Marshals of France, and other great cligni-
twice. Informed of the approach of the cortege, the
Archbishop of Paris, preceded by hie, clergy, went
forward to meet them towards the central gate by
which they entered. The cortege advanced towards
i
the throne, which was placed n the centre of the
transept on a raised floor, covered with an ermine
limpet. A canopy of velvet, lined with ermine, and
=mounted by a colossal eagle, rose to a great
height. A flood of light streamed over the gilding,
the flowers, and the hangings, and banners bearing
the names of the principal towns in France floated
teem the ceiling.
The Emperor and Empress took their places ea
the throne. On the right of the altar, the five ter-
dinals were seated, and further down the Marshals
of France in full costume, and holding their batons
of command. The church was crowded in every part,
and from the remotest corner of the nave and high
galleries hundreds in vain tried to catch even a
passing. glimpse of the ceremony. As soon as their
Majesties placed themselves on the throne, the arch-
bishop officiating saluted them, and the ceremony of
marriage then commenced.
The Archbishop, addressing the Emperor and
Empress, said, " Do you present yourselves here to
contract marriage, in presence of the Church?" The
Imperial pair answered, " Yes, Monsieur." The
silence at this moment was so profound, that these
words might be heard throughout the spacious edi-
fice. After these words, the first almoner of the
Emperor, preceded by a master of ceremonies, ad-
vanced to deposit the pieces of gold, with a ring ins
plate on the altar, and afterwards presented them to
the Archbishop for the benediction. The Archbishop
then turning towards the Emperor, said, " Sire,
you declare, acknowledge, and swear, before
God, and before his Holy Church, that you
110 W take Mdlle. de Montijo, Comtesse de
Theba, here present, for your wife and legitimate
spouse ?" The Emperor answered with a firm and
sonorous voice " Yes, Monsieur." The Prelate con-
tinued " You promise and swear to be faithful in all
things as a faithful husband should be to hie spouse
according to the commandment of God ?" The Em-
peror again responded " Yes, Monsieur." The Arch-
bishop, then turning to the Empress, addressed the
same interrogatories to her Majesty, and received
like affirmative answers. The Archbishop then gave
the pieces of gold and the ring to the Emperor, who
presented them to his bride, with the words " Receive
the signs of the marriage covenant between you and
me." The Empress then handed the gold pieces to the
Duchesse de Bassano, her Maid of Honour, after
which the Emperor placed the ring on the finger of
her Majesty, with the usual words. The Archbishop
then making the sign of the cross, said, " In nomine
pates of Sin et spiritus sancti." The couple then
knelt, each holding the right hand of the other, and',
the Archbishop, extending his hands over them,
=ced the sacramental formula, "Dens Abraham,
Isaac," &c. The Emperor and Empress
then rising were conducted back to the throne.
The Gospel was next read, and afterwards the
sacred book was taken to their Majesties to kiss.
After the Pelee their Majesties went to the foot of
the altar and knelt; the first chaplain of the Em-
peror and another bishop extended above their
Wsk a canopy of silver brocade, and kept it so ex-
WNW during the oraison. During the episcopal
benediction and the reading of the Gospel, the choir
chanted several times the Domino salmon. The Arch-
bishop then presented holy water to their Majesties,
and commenced the Te Down, which was taken up
by the orchestra and the singers. After the 2e
Doan, the great officers of the crown, the princes,
the ministers, and other persons who arrived
in the cortege resumed their places, and
their Majesties descended from the throne.
The cortege left the church in the older in which it
lied entered, the Emperor and Empress bowing gra-
slimly on all sides. The weather was dull, but
upon the whole favourable. The cortege, on return-
ing, instead of following the streets, came along
the quays as far as the Place do Is Concorde, and en-
tered the Palace by the grand entrance to the garden
of the Tuileries. the deputations, drawn up in the
garden, were respectful but not warm in their salu-
tations.
The following is the cantata song in the theatre,
after the overture of "William Tell," by M. Roger
and Madame Tederco, in presenee of the Emperor
and Empress. The music is by Aeber, and the
verses by M. Mery

RICITATIP.
MVO lea lyres d'or, avec les voix de rime,
France, Espagne, deux scours! celebrex co grand jour!
Peoples unis, chances rsuguste epithalame,
Car rhymme de la max, e'est l'hymne de l'amour!
Notre scour par la Foi, l'Espagne fortunia
Donne sa noble fills 3 Napoleon Trois;
Quand I'aigle imperial mower. en hymenee,
Ce quit elive it lui devient le sang dee roil!
CHANT.
Solis le chasms et sons la couronne,
Celui qui porte on noble cccur
Ne vent confer a personne
Le droll de choisir son boaheur.
L'Ensperear it now se revile
Libre des ►ois d'un monde linden ;
EN par la France nouvelle,
Le occur do people, c'est le gen!
Aus jour. des dernieres
Vine de rile de Lion,
I.ln Espagnol, sons nos =trifles,
Combattit pour Napoleon.
°enemas Fraceais de Castilla,
Do haul des dens rejonis-toi:
L'Empereur 6pouse u fills !
Ton beioisme t'a fait roi !
Oh! qu'elle soh notre espiranee
Sur le trans od now rattendons
Le del la met pour la France
Quand it la cambia de see dons!
Ceux qui soufrent la vie mire,
TOMS les orphelins du malheur
Domain retrouvent sine mere :
C'est la femme de l'Empereurl
Pour nitre Imperatrice, au: dour climate °bole»,
Chant'', avee des veil qui savent nous ravir,
Les airs que redira !'echo d'Andalousie
Aus collines du Tagus et du Guadalquivir!
QUATOOK.
Espagns bids limes
Oa le del eat vermeil,
C'eat toi qui lam 'armee
D'un rayon de soled !
Now binisseasl'aurore
Et nes riantes pliers
Qui Is front felon
Dens tee jardius de Seers !
Ensile qui seintide
Et se live cur noes,
Sts rayons de Castillo
Font noire del plus dour !
Le pauvre 3 ses souffranees
Promet en meilleur temps;
II a deux providence.,
L'annfe a deo: printempe.
CHANT.
Dieu qui wife sur les trews,
Dien qui prend pitie de now,
Bimini les edit eouronnes
Des dens augustes ewe:.
Lorsque la France ('implore,
Dieu our elle onvre les yew ;
Notre pays est encore
Le pays time dm deux
(Grand chow final.)