The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-12 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

FROM THIS NIG HT'S GAZETTE.

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The Queen ham bees gneiss-1v p eared to apooist Comte Ben-
'polo Aathew. trir her Majesty'' Consul at Charleston. to be
her Majetty's Comma at PalladelphiA.
The to .eett has oleo brot ores ous'y plea ant to .ppdot flobett
Basch, tag., sow her Ntaitsty's Gamut at rhilaJAphla, be her
Majesty's Lucent et Charleston.

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no Poem boa bees orteticiair pleamit to iippotnt Frederic Float',
tan, ►p., sew First Paid Attache t • btr Majetti t.eßrt•,o at Vienna,
to be Secretary to be MaJetty's Letrbloo at Stuttprdt.

FOREIGN. OFFICE. Jett 11.
Ilse Queen Imo been pleased to approve of Mr. :oho W. How.
des as lemma at Brrnuada, sod o: Yr. Joars Keenan as Consul at
llosculioner, for tae Visaed Steam of dosertes.
The gores but also been p ea,* t to anpr••ts of Me Oliver Jolla
Minims sa Viso.fluernl at Hanneb, f w his Royal lbganess Use
°nod Uake of I:tddenbturb.oettwerls.

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Toss to is Int lituntan vie. ementers.

BANKRUPTS. U I
HRIIIIT BAT= and CHARLES HIVIIMAN, Addle-street, 8L
City. straw plait dealers. "
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I} ASIAN 5 AAA RT , Parkstone, Poole, coal merchant. 10
CHARLES HALL, Orchard street, Portman-square, mt
builder. is.
WILLIAM HAMBLIN°, Southampton, builder. M
FAZDCRICIL FRANCIS Fox, Colllllill, City, tailor. et.
WILLIAM WINTER, Hawkhurst, Kent, builder. ILet.
JOSRPH Psalm, Searbro-strret, Goodman 's-fields, tailor. St
TRONA/ TERMS and EDMOND KIRA, Stratford-upon- 13
Avon and Pillories Hersey, Warwielishire, painters. $0
Davin FARRAR Bowes, Rawcliffe, Yorkshire, flax Iv
smasher. 114
JOSIPII ABBOT!, Reddish, Manchester, grocer. IC
THOMAS TAPLIT, Liverpool, stone mason. 50
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THE AZTECS.

Three wonderful little epa !gee.
which of humanity, ge.
which had the honour a few days ago of being presented to AO
her Majesty, were yesterday introduced to the g 1 40
public at the Hanover-square Rooms. Marvellous as they .11.1
are, as ethnological curiosities, their history is yet more 7,
astonishing. We briefly condense i', for the benefit of our S 4
readers, who will of course take it with as many or as few
" grains of salt " as they may think neeeenry.
In Kt. Stephens's work on Central America, he relates 10
nutiry conversations which he had with a certain hospitable 2/
Padre at Santa Cruz del Quiche, and formerlynf the village 4
of Chajel, respecting the antiquities of the country. Toe is
Padre averred that, in his younger days, he had climbed to te
the topmost ridge of the sierra, a height of 10,000 or 12,000 *
feet, and from its naked summit, looking over an immense „B,
plain, extending to Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico,
bad seen, with distinctness in the remote distance, " a g,
large city, spread over a great space, with tar- le
rota white, and glittering in the sun." His account e
of the prevalent Indian report was, that no white _a
man ever reached that city; that the inhabi-
tants, who spoke the Mayes language, were aware that a ;
race of white strangers had conquered the whole country
around them, having murdered every white man that had es
since attempted to penetrate their territory. He added Bt.
that they had no coin or other calculating medium; no 81.
hones, mules, or other domestic animals, except fowls,
" and kept thecoeks under ground, to prevent their crow- NI
ing being heard." Commenting ou this story, Mr. Stephens,
in his work, expresses a strong opinion that the legendary DS
city had a real existence, and he adds that though he was le
himself prevented from making the attempt "two young
moo of good constitution, and who could afford to spend five ca
years, might succeed" in laying bare its wonders to the so
world. This paragraph had, we are told, the effect of in- 10
daring Mr. Suortas. of Baltimore, an American, of Spanish W
parents, from Cuba, and Mr. Hammond, a civil
engineer, from Canada, to resolve upon the en- it
terprise. Amply equipped, these gentlemen sailed so
from New Orleans, and arrived in Belize in the autumn 50
of 1840. They reached Copan by Christmas, and here lle
one Senor Pedro Velesquez, of San Salvador, joined their !!
party. Thy found the worthy padre somewhat dropsical 7
and loss jovial than he had been described, but as confident is
as ever on the sahjeet ; and he gave them a letter of intro- u
duction to his friend the Curs of Gueguetenango, request- is..
dog him to procure them a guide. The can sneered mag-
nificently at the proposed expedition, but he finally sent
the travellers two Indians, with whose assistance they
pushed gallantly forward. On the 19th of May, 1849, they
crossed the Cordilleras in Ist. 15 deg., 48 min. north, at an
altitude of 9,500, loagitude 92 deg., 15 min. west, and with
their telescopes discovered the city. Pressing on they
reached its neighbourhood on the Bth of July; and pre-
sently they were attacked by some hundreds of the
citizens. The party, which numbered thirty-five,
being well armed with revolving rifles, fired at
the horses of the assailants, and signally routed
them, not, however, without losing one of their number
slain with the spar of one of the Aztecs ; and Mr. Heade
was also mortally wounded. The defeated Aztecs Iran
compelled to:conduct their conquerors into the city, whew
they were hospitably received. The padre's story about
the absence of animals turned out to be entirely fabulos e.
for the Aztecs rejoiced in vast herds—deer, cattle, and
horses, as well as in every variety of agricultural produce.
The city, which was called Wilma, covered nearly 12
alum miles, was surrounded by walls 40 feet
high, and filled with gigantic buildings of the
ancient Assyrian type. The travellers were lodged
in the palace of the Hansa, who, it was asserted,
had accompanied the first migration of this people from the
Assyrian plains.' Their peculiar and strongly distinctive
lineaments, it is now perfectly well ascertained, are to be
traced in many of the sculptured monuments of the central
American ruins, and were found still more abundantly on
these of Iximaya. Forbidden, by inviolably sacred taws,
from intermarrying with any persons but those of their own
caste, they had here dwindled down, in the course of many
centuries, to a few insignificant individuals, diminutive in
stature. They were, nevertheless, held in high veneration
and affection by the whole Iximayan community, probably
as living specimens of an antique race nearly extinct. While
the party stayed in the city Hammond died, Santis fell in
love with a young Aztec and attempted to persuade her to
elope with him. She, false and frail one, betrayed her lover,
who bad been foolish enough to join is the heathen rites
of the people, and he was sacrificed on the altar of the Sun.
Velazquez was more fortunate. Taking the alarm, he and
his party planned their escape, and were accompanied by
sae Vaalpeor, the guardian of the two Kiang children now
'inhibited at Hanover-equare. Their flight was detected,
but Velazquez and 15 of his party fought their way to free-
dom Vaalpeor died on the journey, but Valaques reached
So Salvador with the children by the following February.
hssly remains to add a few words respecting the children
Ilismalva. The elder is a boy, and is said to be 19 years
*age ; the younger, a girl, is 11. They an about 3 feet
is height, and arc tolerably well formed. Unlike young
Andress or dwarfs, their heads are disproportionately small.
The features, especially of the boy, are very remarkable,
the nose and upper jaw being very prominent, and
the whole countenance Waring a strong affinity to
the Jewish physifguomy considerably exaggerated.
The girl more nearly resembles the mulatto type, and
it is remarkable that her hair is more crisp than the boy's,
whose locks are of a beautiful silky texture. They have
both an odd disjointed look about the alleles, and they have
a habit of sitting down in a posture strikingly like the ,
Mexican idols represented in Mr. Stephens' work. It is, "
in tact, said that they were placed in the Aztec altars to
receive the devotions of the people. They seem to have
no language, sad they communicate with each other prig- IC
eipallyia pantomime; hut they showed much more apti-
tude than children of their size usually. manifest for tic-
quiring speech. Their manners are very infantine, and the
girl seems to be theliveliest. Altogether two more remark-
able specimens of -humanity were never brought to our
shores, and they are quite deserving on their own account of
the attention sf the ethnologist.

THE NEW SOAP ACT.—Yeaterday the new act to 1
repeal the duty on soap was printed. k ram the sth instant
the duties ate repealed " en soap made in Greet Britain
and on soap brought from Great Britain into Ireland."
Soap is now selling from 2d. to 4d. per lb.
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