The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-05 00:00:00

THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA.

The following information has been received at
the Waroffice :

"Two batteries of the 16th Brigade of Royal Artillery
arrived at Halifax in the Arabia on the 16th of January,
and proceeded to Bermuda in the Cleopatra on the 19th.
"The 2nd battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards left Halifax
on the 16th of January, and were landed at St. John's, New
Brunswick, on the 19th.
"The Hibernia, with Artillery, Engineers, and a portion
of the 15th Foot, disembarked on the 20th of January at
St. John's, New &imswick.
"The Madawaka road is completely opened. The first
detachment of troops reached Rivii‘re du Loup on the 16th
of January, and on the 24th, 1,039 men, including the
' whole of the 62nd Regiment, had arrived there in good
' health and spirits.
"The transport Mauritius, with a detachment of the
lah Regiment, end Royal Artillery horses and guns, put
into St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 24th of January,
short of cool."

Accounts from Irkurtek (Russian Aida) state
that the litichmlver has been frozen there linos the middle
of December.

Accounts from Liege, Munich, Nurnberg, Stutt-
gardt, Baden, Vienna, and other districts of Germany,
state that the rivers have overflowed their banks,
and that the country is covered with water. In some towns
boats are floating over the market places. The Nurnberg
Correspondent did not appear on the 21st of January, the
waters having taken possession of the printing °floe.
Marshal Valliant is npolccin of as likely to be
appointed to the post of Governor to the Prince Imperial.
His highness will bays reached the mature age of six on
the 16th of March next. The prince's civil household will
be formed soon after that date, bat the military household
will not be oesetitatal till after his first communion. The
marshal's present position as Minister of the Imperial
Household, As, will not belaffected by this appointment.
Just as the French Academy of Sciences was
about to open its sitting on Monday, the president was in-
formed of the decease of its oldest member, M. Biot, who
was also a member of the French Academy, and of the
Academy of Inscriptions and Bella•Lettres. M. Biot had
died that morning in full possession of all his faculties, and
had passed the previous evening in scientific conversation
with several brother academkians assembled round ha bed.
Biot was eighty-eight years of age. After the president
had communic►ted the mournful intelligence to his col-

leagues, the witting was at owe brought to a close.
Blume IN GRILMANY.—A new comic opera, or
vaudeville, by Herr Emil Heimann, the Witch of the Mill,
has been successful, it is mid, at the second theatre in Bar-
lin.—ln Dresden, a new symphony, " Wald-Symphonie,"
by an amateur, Mr. Lodge Ellerton, has been produced—A
new opera by Herr Langert, on the story of "Joan el
Aro," has just been given at Coburg.—ln Vienna, the Phil-
harmonic Society has announced two retrospective concerts
during the present mouth, to be made up of music by lank,
Orlando Lasso, Palestrina, Vittoria, Eccard, Prsetorius,
Henry Schutz, Chambonnßres, Corelli, A. Soariatti, A.
Lotti, F. Couperin, J. Hammy Handel, Umatilla Bach,
Bnccherini. By the Deutsche Musa Zeitaxg, we perceive
that Herr Lautertach has been playing at Dresden during
the winter, and with success. . _

A most influential mooting was held in the Town
Hall of Manchester, yesterday, to consider what should be
done for the removal of the protective duties levied on the
Importation of cotton goods and ootson yarns in India. The
importance of the Ambient drew together a large assembly,
in which the free-trade conservative element was for once
freely blended with the old standard substance of the liberal
political creed. Memorials to Lord Palmerston and Sir
Charles Wood were adopted, strongly urging the removal
of Indian duties, which not only affected the trade of the
district, but were directly opposed to the policy so closely
followed by the late and present cabinets. Mr. Algernon
Egerton moved the first resolution, and Mr. W. J. Legh
seconded it, and other resolutions, moved and supported in
a similar way, were adopted. A letter was read from Lord
Stanley, agreeing with the views of the promoters of the
melgag. The mayor presided, and received the thanks of
the assembly.
GOLD IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.—The Times con-
tains full particulars from a special correspondent at Vic-
toria, 'Vancouver Island, of the results of the mining season
lan year. We may state, in brief, that the latter combo.
rates the glowing accounts which reached us throughout the
summer and autumn, giving a superlative description of the
wealth of the upper gold country. The portion of British
Columbia which has yielded nearly all the gold produced
this year, and which is destined to attract the notice of the
world to a degree hitherto not accorded to the country in
the aggregate, is a newly•discovered district called Canhoo
(a corruption of " Cerf bond," a large species of reindeer
which inhabits the country). The district is about 500
miles, in the interior, north (or north-cast rather) from the
coast of British Columbia and the mouth of Fraser River.
A miner writes that his pins far surname anything ever
produced in California, and cites the fact of 1,700 dollars
has tog been dug out of two crevices in the rock less than
three fest under the surface. In fact, the explanation of
the enormous yields the large solid, ouggety character of
the gold and its proximity to the surface. Men who
had never mined before, tradesmen, mechanics, and
labourers new to the work, did just as wall as
the old, practised miner. This result will cease
es the efflorescence of gold near the surface because
exhausted. Then some skill and much labour will be
required to produce far leas resulta then paid the exertions I
of the Cariboo men last season. Williams's Creek, which
finally tamed out the greatest encores of all the weeks for
risk liner, Yields. began is August to produce. Demon
and Cs. took oat 50 0000.11 in one day, and in a few days
reached the bed-rock, when in one pa..l of oardirt they get
GOO &Bora Abbott and On., en three to tour feet,
6blained 900 dollars ID ono pla-fral of dirt. Two oxen.
ordinary fact was confirmed by Ya. Abbott himself whoa be
Icame dews to Victoria the rAilar day. H. and his toai.
pertsma arkilt mob a fortari. to ism 'ma was we/he