The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

MELBOURNE, Jou 25.

A Royal commissioner has been appointed to
report on the present condition and prospects of
gold mining in the colony.
10,0001,• the proceeds of a subscription for the
relief of the Lancashire operatives, has been re-
mitted to England by this mail.

PLYMOUTH, Szrr. 8.
The Venetia, Captain Page, belonging to Messrs.
Thompson and Co., from Adelaide on the 12th
April for London, arrived off Plymouth this even-
ing with 15 cabin and 26 steerage passengers, and a
cargo of flour, wool, and copper.
She landed nine passengers and a small mail.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram :

Bszr. 8.
The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 1 p.m. this day.
The mails were to leave for London at 3 p.m.

• la the Melbourne telegram published yesterday the
amount was erroneously telegraphed es 3,0001.

ITALY.

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NAPLES, Parr. 2.

We are still irregularly detained at the Qutestura,
but the police feel that the proceedings are illegal,
and therefore treat us with all possible regard.
Our Bourbonist fellow-prisoner, whose sisters, as I
heard from them, are ex-nuns, one of them the
lady superior of the Charitable Sisterhood, got
on Saturday advice from the secretary of the police
to ask for a passport to any foreign country, and that
his demand would be immediately complied with.
Well aware, however, that there is no evidence
against him, my young friend made a counter-
proposition—to leave Naples, bat to remain in the
country. He is to get an answer to-day. You see,
the prisoners treat with the authorities on a footing
of equality.

Alexandre Dumas, S 8 soon as he knew I was
imprisoned, or rather detained, offered bail at once,
without even consulting me, and requested the
favour of keeping me in his villa, at the disposal
of the police. He got for answer that, being
arrested by order of the Turin government, I must
remain at the Qumstura, at the disposal of the
cabinet. My case, however, must be decided
within the next twenty-four hours. Dumas
and several English and Italian friends called
on me in the afternoon, and their pleasant
conversation caused us all to forget that I was a
prisoner. One gentleman, however, assured me
most positively that he had heard from a police spy
that I am to share the fate of my friends the im-
prisoned members of Parliament, and to be tried
by the High Court of the Senate as their accomp-
lice. I should be sorry for it, as otherwise I
might be the principal witness for the defend-
ants, having accompanied them from Turin to
Sicily, and back to Naples. They are still kept
in close confinement, nobody being allowed to
communicate with them. It is said that four
gentlemen from Salerno were likewise sent to the
Cordell Uovo, and that many arrests took place in
the provinces, M. Petruocelli, the cousin of the well
known member of the Italian parliament being
among them. The new accessions to our number
iu the police office are rather unpleasant—a young
man accused of disgusting immorality, &c. The
father of the assassin, who is detained here for the
crime of his eon, was at last, after ten days, ex-
amined yesterday by the magistrate : he will
probably be able to prove his innocence.

Poy ear/ or ram POPE —A singular announce-
ment appears in some of the Roman catholic papers It is
to the effect that a large camber of of which have
been made to the Pope an to be disposed of by a general
dialTibution " in aid of the neosesities of the Sovereign
Pontiff," on the el December, t►e prim of the tickets
entitling purchasers to a (shame of a prize being fined
at iod., or five far le. Amongst three who are taking
lead Is fife novel movement are Vineoant Ceisiprleo, Vis-
count Niles& sag Sir Charles Clifford.

Dr. Charles Murchison, the senior physician to
the Londos Fever Hospital, has in the press a "Treatise
os the Coatinued Fevers of Great Britain," illustrated by
solorired plates and diagrams.

PAWS FIRST CLASS sad LONDON PRIZE
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N.B This establishment Is closed at 6ln the man& and on
Saturdays at 1 o'clock.

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