The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

It must be within the thoollsotion of meet
people that a general rthectemm was felt ID
eider any securities as sib other than the tinkle
or good mortgages. Whenever • foreign loan was
brought out, apparently on tempting terms, the I ,
subscribers were almost always personally ao-
queinted with the country, either through them-
selves or their friends, or otherwise had '
peculiar reasons for venturing on an application.
The public, as • body, stood aloof. This feeling
is not altogether exploded at the present day, but,
at all events, is strikingly on the wane. What do
the small tradesmen of London, &sex, Suffolk,
Hampshire, ho., know about Turkey t And yet
it is precisely among this class that Turkish stocks
are in • great degree placed. When the last
English loan of 1862 was brought out, 3,000,0001.
out of the 8,000,0001. was in bonds of 1001. each
to snit small investors. This provision, which ap-
pears ample enough, is, however, so far inadequate
that the small bonds command a premium over
the others. We merely cite an example,
as there is every reason to believe that the
same rule prevails with other foreign
stocks. Again, the numberless joint-stock COOl•
psalm that have been formed within the last ten
years must interfere largely with the price of the
funds. From the latter, it is true, an investor
gets an absolute certainty of his unman), but it
stands at the dead level of 3 per cent., while
shares in • joint-stock bank may give a dividend
sa high as 20 or 35. Of oourse there is • certain
amount of risk, but, all things considered, it is
comparatively trifling. For one case like the Royal
British or the Leeds Bank there are twenty where
these investments are both safe and exceedingly
profitable. Here, again, it may be remarked that
the proprietors in these institutions are in no small
degree persons with limited means. Large capitalists
as a rule shun a concern which by some fatality
might render them liable for the whole of their
property. Curates, maiden ladies, and small
tradesmen have no such scruples, and readily risk
their few hundreds for the sake of the high return
they calculate on receiving.

LATEST INTILLIGINCAL
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THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL

THE LATE FIGHTING IN NEW ZEALAND.
A Melbourne paper (the Australian News) of the
23rd of February, which has come to band this
morning, brings the following details of the recent
affair in New Zealand :
Vii Sydney. we have papers to the 3rd bust from Nadas
to the 31st nit., from Wellington, Lytteltoo, and Taranaki,
sad to the 16th from Wongseri.
TARANAKI.
Sims the arrival of the Defence Manta from Auckland
the inseeivity that has so long paralysed the mares' of the
Tesmaki seethes appear at lest to be replaced by a spirit
• debadisation to do something on the pert of the govern-
ors' la the slap of locating the military settlers os
awn homes. The town sons will at moo be allotted.
sad, se soca so sizetunstanoss will allow, the Si
sad farms will be handed over to their fame reftviciive
occupants As • preliminary step, on Saturday last
Colonel Wane end gaff, sooompsnied by Major Atkisson
' and Xr. Parris, rode to Taterainaks, when they remained
ter the sight. The next morning (Sunday) the party pro-
ceeded southwards for some two or three miles to Tad-
takipaps, tie poeition of • Maoris pah, formed of cards-
work, meetly alter the model of the English redoubts, with
flanking seem sad ditch complete. It is here that the
' mine' who sent in their names as desirous of melded
peace in December reside. Tae naives on the preseet on-
oasion landed to meet the party manna, sad, alter •
bug converestioa, Colonel Warm sad Major Adams, with
the staff, proceeded by an inland road to Npsa, the site of
the sew position as the Rangstehus or Mousy River. It
is situate about ono mile and • hen from the sea. In ties
msantime, Mr. Penis entered the pah for the purpose at an-
swering any questions that might be asked. On the colonel
returning, which he did by the beach root the natives mod
out singly and presented theme/me before him, each dm
=kip( a speech expreesive of desire to live in pesos sad '
quietness. In the same order the pah was again enteeed,
whoa the guns were brought out sod plead on the viand
between the Colonel and Mr. Parris, amidst some more
spellbinds. After this, with some ceremony, the spears
with hatchet heads ware laid new the gum ; sod t►e whole
of this part of the proceedings was brought to • ocioolusloo
by • pessentation of sharks' teeth, grestatones, Eta
Three men—lnearaps, Miura, and Hansa—who, from
having been oonsmoted with the Wareks and other mur-
ders, are excluded from any Misfit of the prcolereatiors
came forward with their guns, sod pre themselves cap as
prisoner, returning with the Europeans to Tataraimak►,
where they were handed over to the rear commanding the
garrison.

Is it a matter of regret that the price of the
public funds should stand at a comparatively low
point It This is a question that admits of two an-
swers. When the decline arises from national mis-
fortunes, such as the mutiny at the Nore, or from
entire want of faith in the honesty of the Govera-
snout, as for example in Spain and Greece, it is no
doubt a bad sign. Supposing, on the other hand,
I that the low price proceeds from the competition
for capital caused by extended enterprise and
increasing commerce, there can be no question that
indirectly it shows the growing prosperity of the
people. It is for this reason that we see no grounds
for disquietude. Consols may be 2 per cent.
lower than they were ten years ago, when we were
in the thick of the Russian war ; but it would be
a manifest absurdity to account for the difference
by a diminution in the national welfare.

gbt court.

WINDSOR CASTLE. APilli. &

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by the Prisons Louise, and attended by the
equerry on bonsback, and walked in the grounds this mace-
leg, accompanied by Priam Allred.
PrMorse Helena rode M the Home Park.
Princess Louise, attended by the Hoe. Florence Seymour,
west out walking.
Prism Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out in the
Home Park.

APRIL 9.

The Qnsen, aooompanied by the Prinoess Helena, drove
in the Greet Park yesterday afternoon, attended by the
Hoe. Flatware Seymour.
Prinoses Louise, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, also
drove out. .

The Quests, Prince Alfred, Prince= Helena, Princess
Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, with the
hales and gentlemen is waiting, attended divine service
this morning is the private despot
The Rev. P. C. Cook, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen,
paseeked the sermon.
Viscount and Viseountess Palmereton arrived at the
Castle yesterday, sad had the honour of dining with her
Majesty sad the royal family.

WANGANUI.
This morning an alarm was gives in tows that the road
party .t Kai lwi had been attacked, and that soma of
the men were miming. Two noes of Mr. Mailman, who
has . Moro out thane, rode into tow • with the intallirmose,
at half-past k on one horse, without a 'addle, end with
nothing oa bat their ntghtahhia, and a little later in the
mania{ Mr. Mona Rees arrived, and pre • more infante
detail of the oirministancen. It appea-a that then were
. . .

about 30 of the reed party still there, men who had not
finished their contract, and who were waiting till the ad-
ethos of the troops might enable them to resume work with
safety, and that their tents were pitched along the road
as both sides for some distance, those outermost being
sear the Kai Iwi, and the other, sketching is this
&meth& as far as to this side of the Pukstotera Omsk,
which runs throes the road a short &Woos as this
side of Kai Iwi steam. Mr. Rem' test steads on
this tido of the Pthetotare, and he was aroused
this morning at dawn by shots, which he found on
rushing out prooesdad from a somber of natives who had
was aloof the road from the Waitotant, and, as there had
been so guild or look-out at any part of the onrunnwout.
had MOW upon it without the 'RAW* warning. At first,
Yr. Rees thooght they were firing for amusement, but was
quickly undeceived, for, so soon as they saw him and Mr.
Symooda, whom teat adjoined his, they trod upon them.
Five bullets anima Kr. Ress'a trot wh'e he woe getting

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert
Victor, left Marlborough-bones shorty before 2 o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, for Sandringham, attended by Countess
De Grey, Major Grey, and Mr. liolzmann.
The Bishop of Graham's Town, Mr. R. W. Beata, Colonel
Bisset, and Mr. J. Lyons McLeod, bad severally an inter-
view with the Right lion. Edward Cardwell, at the Colo-
nial-ofßce, on Saturday.
A deputation, consisting of the Hoe. Alexander Mel-
ville (Uncoil)), Mr. Rodwell (Bath), Mr. Pries (Gloucester),
and Mr. Seaman (York), had an interview with the Bight
Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official reel.
denim in Downing-street, on Saturday, on the subject of
teaks of issue.

...
hi riddle, and, as he canted the saddle out on his heed to
put it on his hone, another bullet struck it. He immediately
mode off, and, oa getting to a ding ironed, could see about
250 natives, who hei, DOW pouresion of the toots, and were
busy plundering. Most of them of 000114 appeared to be
round the store kept by Palmeri, and no doubt the liquor
in ft and Mr. Mailman's store quickly disappeared. Mr.
Symonds twice bred at them from the low ground iu the
gully, sad one man was seen to fall, while it wu believed a
second was also shot. He and Moue. Mailman and Richard-
son then stationed then .elves babied some slabs, and kept op
a fire for • few minutes, but they soon found the position too
hot for them, sad retreated. After a little time they mus-
tered, and only 12 men sasembled. Many, of wares, might
be is hiding, but Mr. Rees tbinks that the tent on which
the natives mast have come, and which contained seven
wen, must have been so surrounded that the men could not
have eraseed. Some of them immediately made for the
camp, about three miles distrait, and Mr. Rees galloped
into town. Gaunt Cameron nrived with his staff at
Camp Alexandra about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday
lest. He was received with great enthusiasm, the men
. .

eland's lustily and throwing their cape in the sir .
his arrival. Foremost were the old " die-hyds," and their
aeon were heartily re-echoed from the warm hearts of the
18th Royal Irish and the devotedly-loyal Queen's Own.
The skirmishing party proceeded in skirmishing order as far
as the pall, a distance of about half a mile from the camp,
when* volley was poured in upon them from the huts there.
They returned the fire, which was replied to, not only by
theee in the huts which lay to the lef tof theadvanoing party,
but also from high *crab which lay to their right. This was
about 6 o'clock in the evening. In the skirmish which
ensued Deputy-Amistant-Adjutant-General Johnston fell,
wounded in the abdomen by a bullet, which was afterwards
extracted at hie back. The wound is supposed to be modal.
Accounts very as to the number wounded. The first amount
gives four, and the other 11 se the number, the others being
private soldiers. Certain it is that this morning three dead
bodies were brought into Camp Alexandra, together with
Lieutenant Johnston, who is still alive. The reconnoitring
party seems to have returned to the camp. the Mitories fol-
lowing; and it is said that a drooling fire was kept up in
the camp until 3 o'clock this morning, when the troops
fired a heavy volley in the direction from which the shuts
prooesded, which silenced them. It is not known that any
Maoris' have beau hit, as the soldiers could only fire into
the snub without seeing the enemy.
In an "extra" of the Chronicle, 26th January, the
following additional particulars are corrected, in some
respect., from the first amount given :—Tbe pab is at the
corner of a bush, which stands to the rear and left of it.
As the soldiers advanced from the camp about 900 yards
distant, they had the pall directly in their front, end saw
before the huts an ordinary Maori fence or Wenn. About
half-peat 4 o'clock a signal shot was fired from the bosh on
the left of the posh as the soldiers (80 men clf the 18th) scl-
canoed to it. When the soldiers got up to the fame &volley
was fired on them from the huts within, on which they
threw off their knapsack', scaled the Naos, and got in by
an opening, charged the huts, and find on the Maori's, of
whom they killed seven. The Maori's returned the fire,
and it was here that Lieutenant Johnston fell. The firing
continued, and in about an hour a reinforcement we. sent
from the camp, connoting of a detachment of the 50th, under
Major Book, who were sent for the purpose of surrounding the
Mande', and took up a position under cover to the left. On
this the mete of the 18th charged to the edge of the bushels the
left, and found the ground thickly rifle-pitted amoogsome long
weeds, chiefly camomile, from which they kept up a fire till
half-pest 11, when the enemy's firs owed and they retired.
Two men were killed, end two have sine, died, namely,
Lieutenant Johnston, D. A.A.G., and a private. Seven others
WON wounded, most of the wounds being on the heed,
owing to the position in which the men were lying. The
Maori call through the night was, " Come on, oome on ; be
brave, don't leave me !" and a female voice was hosed seve-
ral times encouraging the men forward. This was heard
when the Maori's were retiring wader fire from the soldiers.
The cry was than, " Gloria ! plena ;oh hay him r It
may be mentioned that several bullock drivels got the
wounded men's guns and took part is the fight, se well se
assisted in carrying the wounded to the rear.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCISS OP WALES.—The
Prince and Princess of Wales, with the infant Prises, left
London for Fiandringhain on Saturday. Their Royal
Highoesses arrived at the Biahopegat• terminus of the
Great Eastern Railway shortly after two o'clock, where
they wen met by the chairman of the company (Mr.
James Goodson) also by Mr. Lightly Simpson, the
chairman of the Lyan and Husetanton Railway,
on which line Sandringham is situated, and Oaptain
Jarvis, M.P., Colossi Palmer, and other directors of the
company, with Mr. J. B. Owen, the secretary, by whew
they were conducted to the magnificent carriage especially
built by the company for their use. Having taken their
mate, the royal train *tasted punctually at 2.15, amidst the
hearty plaudits of a select company of ladies and gentlemen
wbo were assembled to witness their departure.

Yesterday morning the Prince and Princess of
Wales, accompanied by Earl de Grey and Ripon and Via.
count Giderich, and attended by Closetess de Grey, Lien.
tesant.General Racily% sod Major Grey, attended divine
ansuise at Ssndringliain Church. The service wiz reed by
the Rev. G. B. Moue, 8.A., the rector of the parish, and
1 the sermon was preached by the Bishop of Oxford._

Ourtrria's 171.1011
FRANCK

PARIS. Aram 10.

PALM SUNDAY AT ROME.
RONA MILL 9.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary rimed their visit to the Duke of
Rutland at Belvoir Castle on Saturday last, having stayed
over the Crouton Park Russ. Their royal highnesses,
atteudedby Lady Caroline Cast wad Colonel Purvis, passed
through town on Saturday to Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
where it is their intention to pass the Easter recess.

The Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess
and Lady Georgians Rumen, has gone to his seat neer
Stroud, Gloucestershire, where Viscount and Viscountess
Amberley sad other members the family are staying.
Sir Humphrey and Lady Annette de Trafford
have felt the Clarendon Hotel for Trafford. perk.
"One becomes bewildered," writes a Paris cor-
rospoadeat, "about puny things in this expensive and woo-
-1 deed city. A gentleman took me into a milliner's shop le
the Rue de la Pax this week to s a ball dress whirls met
25,0001 r. (1,0001.) It appears the voluminous lam bed
brought it up to that prim. A married lady's eveniag dime
in our day generally costs from 80/. to 1001., and is so ore.
Weed that it must of asesssity be torn what Wore In
society. What are husbands made of ? Ow would lip- I
pose it would take three devoted star& to pay for the I
luxurious toilettes of 1865. Are we condog to some golden
age when a blind Maus enables everyme to Hooka splendid
apsztaieuts, crowded with wetly Louis Err. furniture.
occupied by lovely women who spend, if moderate, 1,0001.
per emus on dress ; horses and carriages awaiting below
—the best horestesh England can produce—how is in this
done? Is net all this as great a mystery as the budvi of
the it, of Paris? And are not half the population of
faskiosabls society, like the city of Paris, in debt, sad ova.
template, or &deafly esetnot, loans r
ROYAL Pm HOSPITAL, Qsax's•nrsr-aoan.—The
Dauber of planks Tolima at this hospital darts' We week
maim April 8 was 3,528, of which 1,131 wars ssw sum

On the 24th February nothing fresh bad occurred
in Melbourne.
The Ministry were 'miming their new tariff biU
by considerable majorities on each item, but it was
generally believed that the Upper House would
throw the bill out.
Mr. Cowper and his colleagues had all been
re- elected.

TEE IVIED'S, MONDAY EVENING, APIIL 10, 1865.

BHOOTAN.
RNOAPTURE OF DEWANGIBL
The following telegram has been received At the
nini-office :
" Sir Bartle Frere to Sir C. Wood.

" Bombay, April 6.
" Sir W. Mansfield reports General Tombs took
Dewangiri on the 2nd. with slight loss. No allows
killed. The enemy fought well, and lost 130 killed
and 30 prisoners, including two chiefs."

The journal L'Union de rOuest has been sus-
pended for two months for publishing false news,
with the object of misleading publio opinion, and
exciting hatred against the government.

To-day being Palm Sunday, the Pope blessed the
palms, and distributed them among the members
of the diplomatic body.
A large crowd of foreigners lined the route of the
procession from the Basilica to the Vatican.

r
M. de Persigny disembarked at Civita Vecchia,
and arrived at Rome at 11 o'clock this morning,
alighting at the French embassy.

AUSTRALIA.
PLYMOUTH, Aram 10.

The (heat Victoria, from Melbourne January
17, passed up the Channel yesterday, with 14,448
oce. of gold. She landed eight passengers last
night at Dartmouth by a pilot beat.

mosmal,
youth of France ; and he looks with tarot a the
ecmasqoasose within the next twenty yeses, *sins
some stringent measures shall be taken to stay she
plague. His speech was frequently latsernpted by
the clerical party, which masters strong in the
chamber, and Baron de Benoist boasted that he had
two sons in the army who had been brought up by
the Jesuits. After an ultramontanist speech from

the Count do la Tour, the debate, in spite of loud
cries for a division, was adjourned to Monday.

!MATHER REPORT.---(THIS DAY.)

Mama. area 114, I La

W.
LILL