The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

SEILVIA.

SEMLIN, ocr. 15.

For some months past the Servians have allowed
themselves to be dictated to by the Austrian consul
and some Austrians who arc in the chancery of the
prince. Accordingly, a number of Poles who were
making a decent livelihood, in the most harmless
ways, were ruthlessly expelled the principality. The
Russians reserve their power, and have reasons for
letting the boastful and cowardly Austrians make
themselves odious, and drag the Servians through
the mud, which the porcine nature of the latter
makes them delight to wallow in. The present
Prince of Servia (a vassal of the Porte) is a weak
animal, generally under the influence of the Austrian
consul (a peasant of the military frontier), and
always under the influence of ardent spirits.
Incapable of any sober thought, he fancies him-
self a great Slavonic emperor. Under such a
system it may well be supposed that the representa-
tives of England and France are viewed with jea-
lousy and dread. A demonstration has consequently
been made (which the Prince and government of
Servia consider to have been only a gentle Lint,
though Lord Palmerston is very likely to make them
feel it as a mighty considerable uffitir). The I lah was
the Prince of Servids august birthday, on the night
of which the Servian inhabitants arc compelled to
show their attaehmeut by illuminating their dwell-
ings, while the four foreign representatives of the
great powers never burn an additional candle more
fur the Prince than they would do for the Pasha who
commands the citadel, and is a far worthier person.
The military band paraded through the town at 8
p.m., and passed the Ituasian and Austrian consu-
lates, accompanied by a crowd of police agents
and Scrvians of every degree. On reaching the
' street in which the British consul-general lives, they
halted within a few yards of the house; some cries
of Kossuth's consul r were heard from the Aus-
trian part of the mob, the drums beat an encourag-
ing roll, and the work of demolishing the windows
commenced and lasted the better part of a quarter
of an hour without the slightest attempt at repres-
sion. It was too well known that the execution was
ordered by superior authority. The consul-general
(Mr. de gonblanque) hurried to his residence and
had his shoulder wounded by a heavy stone hurled
at him by a Servian officer, who ran away, but is
certainly well known to persons high in place.
Next morning the British flag was struck, and now
Captain Dudley Ileneage is about to proceed to Con-
stantinople with the consul-general's despatches to
Sir Stratford Canning.

LAUNCH OF TIM CAPE SCREW STEAM-STIIP, THE
QUEEN OF Till SW:TH.—This fine vessel was yesterday
launched front the yard of Mr. Charles Mare, of Black-
wall. Precisely at 3 o'clock p.m. the dog-shores were
knocked away, and the gallant vessel, after receiving
her name at the fair hands of Miss Ford, glided into
the water. The Queen of the South has been built for the
General Screw Steam Naviari.ion Company, and is intended
to convey the maik, passengers, and cargo between this
country and the Cape, under the contract which the corn-
puny have taken. She is a very bcat.tiful model. The
dimensions of the Queen of the South are as follows:
Length between perpendiculars, 210 feet ; length of keel for
tonnage, 2161 feet; breadth fur tonnage, 30 feet; depth of
hold, 2.1 Met. Burden in tons, 1752 36-9iebs. She has two
direct acting engines, by Maudsley, Field, and Cu., of 300
horse power, and her rig will assimilate as near as possible
to that of H.M.S. Dauntless, as now fitted. The Queen of
the South has ample cabin accommodation for 120 passen-
gers, and is finisked in is style equal to any of the crack
sailing ships of Messrs. Green, Smith, Wigram, or any other
of the large shipowners of the port of London.
ARRIVAL OF TILE GLASGOW SCREW-STEAMER.—
GLASGOW, SUNDAT.—This ship arrived at the Broomielasv
today on her first return voyage from New York. She has
30 cabin passengers and a good cargo. Iler news is anti-
dpated by the inttliigence brought by the Baltic. The
principal feature connected with the ship is that she has
performed the quickest passage ever made by a screw-
steamer between the United States and Ore it Britain. The
' Glasgow left New York at nivot on the 11th, and arrived
off timrock, 22 miles below Glasgow, at 3 a.m. of the firth
()esti:l.day). On account of the fog prevailing, however,
1 Captain Stewart deemed it inexpedient to come up the
river tiU today. The meantime between Now York and
Gourock was 13 days 10 hours. Iler greatest daily dis-
tance run was 261 miles with fresh gales and carrying all
sail; and her smallest 163 miles, with light breezes, and no
sail set.

OFFERINGS TO THE APPLE•TREE4.—DEVONSIIIRE
SC PEIVITITION.—it Was a custom in Devonshire, and pro-
bab:y in some of the adjoining counties alto, to perform the
following ceremonial on Old Christmas-eve, or Twelfth-
day, na:uely :—ln the evening, the farmer'. faini:y and
friends being assembled, hot wheat flour cakes were intro-
duced, with cider, aol this was served tottild to the
company, the cako being dipped in tie., cider, and then
eaten. An the evening wore ~n, the assembled company
adjourned into the orchard, sonic one bearing hot cake and
cider as an ofl.ring to the principal tree in the orchard ; the
cake was deposited on a fork of the tree, and the cider seas
then thrown over it, the men firing off inu,kets, fowling-
' pieces, pistols, Car., the women, glen, and bop shouting
and screaming to the trees with all the excitement of young
Indians, the following rhyme:—
Ite4r blue. aln.lo, and p ors cnoure ;
Darn full.. Ong talh., sack full. Hurrah! hurrah' hurrah:"
From :Votes and Queries.

VOe Court.

W I N DSO It, Oct. 27.

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The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of
Wales, and the Princess Royal visited the Countess do
Neuilly, at Claremont, to-day, attended by the Viscountess
Canning, Major-General Sir B. Bowater, and Colonel
Buckley.
Prince Alfred, and the remainder of the royal children,
took their usual pony and walking exercise.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-ofnee
from the (jovernor of the North American Provinces.