The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-09 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jules 8.
The Bing and Queen arrived here at 7 o'clock
this evening.
The Correspondencia states that nothing bait yet
been decided relative to the nomination of a Minis-
ter for Foreign Affsirs, to replace Senor Benaoides.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, Jinni 9.
The West Coast of Africa mail steamer Royal
African arrived in the Mersey last night. Her
dates are Benin, April 24 ; Fernando Po, 29 ;
Cameroon', 31 ; Old Calabar, May 2; Brass River,
Nun, and Bonny, 5 ; Lagoa and Accra, 10 ; Cape
Coast Castle, 12 ; Cape Palmas, 14 ; Sierra Leone,
20 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Tenenffe, 29 ; Madeira, June L
Trade was dull on the coast. Governor Dares was
expected to leave Gambia by the next steamer.
Trade was /dapped at Bonny by Commodore Wil-
mot, in consequence of the non-payment of the fine.
Other news unimportant.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAIM.
SOUTHAMPTON, Juirs 9.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pero, with the heavy portion of the above
mails, has arrived.

CHINA.

(it oviaturn TILBOIL&TE non amis.)
CANTON, MAT 13.
Tea nachanged. Total export to date
115,125,000 lbs. Exchange on London, ia. 40.
poiNr DH GALLS. MAI 21).
The homeward Australian (April) mail has not
yet arrived here.
511LN041A3A 11AT 7.
Tea declining. Silk nothing doing. Export to
date 40,125 bales. Exchange on London, 6a. ld.

• DRATH OF SIR JOHN RICHARDSON.

Mother of our naval heroes—another of the
hand of Polar discoverers—is gone, the mere news
of whose departure revives in some of their own
generation the enthusiasm of early days on behalf
of the heroism which finds its exercise in enter-
gnof peace more arduous than those of war.
iders of our time have not all forgotten the
first occasion on which they heard the name of
John Richardson ; it was in 1819, when Lieutenant
Perry was already exploring arnoug the ice, and
when it seemed probable, as the Admiralty said,
that Parry's object el:legit be promoted by the dis-
patch of a second ex tion to ascertain where the
Goppermine River ell into the sea, and to trace
the shore of the Polar Bea eastwards from it. This
second charge was devolved upon Lieutenant Fran-
klin, with whom was associated Dr. Richardson, a
naval surgeon, described as well skilled in natural
history. Partners in that enterprise, they were
friends for life, and, as none of us can have for-
gotten, devoted in death. It would have been
strange to them, ready as they were for the same
fate, to have foreknown how differently they would
end their liven. One died behind the veil, as it
were—nobody knowing where he was and how it
fared with him—far away among the hue, with the
sea circling round the sky, permitting no night till
the night of death fell ou him—amidst damp and
dreariness, discomfort, if not hunger, obstruction
and discouragement, if not hopeleasuess, with only
the glare of the sunshine on the snow, and the blue
ice and the glittering stretches of the sea. The
other died in a happy old age, in the same month
of the year—in so different a scene, and under such
different conditions ! Amidst the richest of sum-
mer verdure, in a still valley near Olasmere, whither
he bad just returned from gay intercourse with old
friends, and surrounded by his family, he passed
away in the night without pain. There was but a
year of difference in the age of the two friends ;
there was a wonderful likeness in the most promi-
nent of their experience; but a singular contrast in
their way of leaving life.
A healthy activity remained to the end ; he
was kuown all round the neighbourhood, from
Windermere to Grasmere, by his exertions of
one kind or another. As, on the shores of
the Polar Sea, in a but of drift wood, caulked with
moss, with the sullen waters moaning outside, he
delivered lectures to the bunters and boatmen of the
expedition on the soils they were to observe and
report on, and the specimens they were to collect,
so in the green valleys, and under the slated roofs
of Westmoreland, he lectured to the country people
on natural productions, and on the pursuit of
knowledge. He was happy in his home, proud of
his sons, and among his neighbours, if grave and
Will, as if by nature or the discipline of suffering,
still genial at heart, and more so in demeanour, as
time passed on. He was never seen more cheerful,
and even gay, than on the last day of his
life, when he went among the tradespeople, and
was visiting friends to within eight hours
of his death. He appeared in perfect
health, and was reading late. A stroke of
apoplexy carried him off before the early summer
dawn. After all the risks to which be subjected
his life, and the condition to which he re-
peatedly reduced by cold, prolonged hunger, and
other hardships, he lived into his seventy-eighth
year.