The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

crepitude.

school of either heroism or virtue. And, although
financial skill has been shrouded with all high quali-
ties, and covered with all sorts of mantles, it has
never, since the early days of MENDIZABAL'S ministry,
succeeded in commanding respect. Senhor SALA-
MANCA is es clever as any of his predecessors, and no
doubt he will now do some very clever things
in a financial way. The Cortes have, in-
deed, contested his powers, and recalled the
large letter of credit given to MoN. But
Senhor SALAMANCA is a man of the world, and
of resources, who will pay the army—one essential
point And he is, moreover, a man with whom the
fareign bondholder may find much advantage in deal-
ing. If not a citizen of the world, Senhor SALA-
MANCA is a citizen of every bourse in the world.
The French cry out, already, that PACHECO'S an
English, or a BULWEB ministry. The temptation to
taunt M. GUIZOT with having so soon loot French
influence at Madrid is quite irresistible to the
journalists of the French opposition. Of what use,
however, can the possession of influence at Madrid be
to any European power at present? The succession
to the Spanish throne has been stolen. As long as
influence could ensure that, M. Guizor kept the in-
fluence. What more does he want for the present?
To restore the constitution, to counsel an amnesty,
to bring about a reconciliation of all liberal Spaniar&,
and guide the Queen in the course likely to win for
her the affections of her subjects —these are all the aims
that an English envoy could propose for himself, and
they are certainly Spanish aims.
We should much prefer doing without the risk and
the obloquy. So far from England desiring to take
charge of the present dilapidated and disastrous state
of Spain, we feel confident, that if France and
CHRISTINA have, for the moment, abandoned their
charge of that court to England, they have done the
wisest thing they could do. It was evident, that a
Carlist insurrection was brewing; equally evident
that the Moderados, under French control, were too
unpopular to raise a national resistance to such in-
surrection. On the contrary, the continuance of the
:tfrancesado rule at Madrid would only have
completed the disgust of the provincial liberals, and
flung them into the arms of the Count of MONTE-

MOLIN.
The change that has taken place is certainly the
wisest move against him. Whether this change will
be persevered in—whether the Mederado officers of
the army will allow PAcnr.co and his cabinet to be-
come reconciled to the Liberals, or whether the same
cabinet will be able and willing to restore to the
citizens of Madrid, and of the provinces, their rights,
and institutions, and security, remain yet to be seen.
One thing alone can be asserted, and this is, that the
desires of the young Queen tend to the establishment
of a liberal and independent government, such as will
secure her popularity and, establish her throne.
Every generous person mast be anxious and inter-
ested for her success.

THE young Queen of SPAIN has at length succeeded
in emancipating herself, thanks to the counsels and
advice of General SERRANO, and her Majesty has
constituted a new cabinet of the leading men of that
party, which, though Moderado or conservative, are
anxious to try once more the experiment of a coned-
tational government. Senhor PACHECO and his friends
have some ideas, which were considered very sin-
by the court over which CHRISTINA presided.
ghuirtii;:. were for respecting the liberty of the person,
allowing some latitude for the liberty of the prem.
They deprecated the execution, or proscription, of po-
litical opponents, opposed the military dictatorship of
NARVAEZ, and deprecated the Infanta's marriage, as
placing the country in too great a dependence of
France. This was considered by the court as being
absurdly particular ; and the deputies, who pat for-
ward such principles, were ridiculed as Puritans.
As the Liberals support the Puritans for the time,
both have a majority HI the Cortes. And this majo-
rity is increased and strengthened by its being known,
that in case of a dissolution and general election,
the Puritans and Liberals would almost solely com-
pose the Cortes, to the exclusion of the courtiers,
the military butchers, and the venders of their prin-
tease& But a majority in the Cortes, present or future,
is not sufficient to give solidity to a Spanish ministry.
It mast have, moreover, the support of the army.
Unfortunately, the Spanish army has been divided,
even more than the nation, into the two great parties
of Liberals and Moderadoe. The former, ever predo-
minant in it, have been scouted and expelled. The
present constitution of the army and its officers is
decidedly Moderado. And although it may tolerate
Paulsen, yet if there be a suspicion, and there must
be more than such, that he leans on the Li
rats,
must trust them, and reappoint their generals
and officers, there will ensue serious resist-
ance on the part of the present chiefs of
the military force. It is, therefore, in the
barrack and in the officers' mesa-room, far mare
than in the Cortes, the press, or the public, that the
fate of the PACHECO cabinet, and the attempt of tim
Queen to have a semi-liberal ministry, will be
decided.
One symptom of this difficulty and a proof of the
fact that the present is more a military than a political
crisis, is to be perceived is the difficulty of getting
any one to take the office of Minister of War. There
have been three or four changes lately; aad. now,
CONCHA, a spirited_ young officer, and a Modert
standing about halfway between NARVAEZ
SERRANO, has refused it. A ministry, supposed to be
under the influence of SERRANO, will scarcely get a
Moderado general to take the war-office ; and for
SERRANO to take it himself would be to COMMINICO too

abruptly the change.
Next to the war aloe in importance, is the ministry
of filmic.. 4ain is more fertile in tinanciera than
statesmen.. The profession of making fortunes by
p stocks and coin is, in the Peninsula, a
veryry fameartbs one—it being, indeed, the only certain
Toad to adulate. We cannot poi that this is it

do. kis; all the whilb it acts, educating those who
avail themselves of its services to do without it in the
long run. A good santiory system once established
through England would be perpetuated in the same
way as the present want of system has been. People
will, in time, be as likely to build houses without doors
and windows, as without drains and water-closets. A
street will be sewered in the same regular way as it
is now paved. It will be es much a matter of course
that houses should be ventilated, as that they should
be furnished with stairs or fire-pluses.
When all this is the case, a central sanitary board
will have done its work, and may retire, as a Roman
Dictator did when the common-weal had passed the
crisis for which he accepted office. The recognition
of this sanitary question, as one in which govern-
ment is bound to move, is a new feature of our times.
We congratulate the noble and humane men who, 16
years ago, commenced their beneficent agitation for
this end; unlike most agitations, in that it imputed
no motives, stirred no strife, worked for no personal
gain, contemplated no party triumph, on having
brought the country to this, the first, but most
laborious, stage on the road to their contemplated
results.

UNTIL We have Lord MORTETH% Health of Towns
Bill before us it is impossible to determine how far
he has fenced round his central body, or reconciled
its control with the free action of the local function-
aries. But a general consideration of the eanitory
question shows many points in which a sanitory mea-
sure may with peculiar advantage combine central
control with local activity.
In the first place, the subject involves no party topic
or political cry. The central board can never become
a head-quarters of partisanship, or a laboratory for
the preparation of sectarian measures. All the objec-
tions which lie so near the surface when a central
authority begins to administer the educational favours
of the state, disappear when sanitary reform is being
dealt with. Besides, although the board will consist
of three paid and scientific to two unpaid and un-
scientific official members, its subject matter is one in
which the latter must be guided by the former. The
minister is concerned with sanitory measures, as
they conduce to the peacefulness, orderliness,
and general prosperity of the country. But of
the medical and engineering part of the ques-
tion he can know but little, and must be guided
by his scientific associates, who, we presume,
will be independent of party, and peculiarly
qualified for that superintendence which they will
have to exercise. Nor need we fear for such a board
many of the evils which so hampered the Poor-law
Commissioners. Those functionaries had to deal with
a question, the application of whose principles varied
in every instance, and of which the principles them-
selves are vehemently contested. Besides, at every
step, the Poor-law Commissioners struck upon some
great social problem, which forced them either to
outrage unscientific humanity by resistance, or to peril
their system by weak concessions. Again, that com-
mission was inefficient for want of a more numerous
corps of inspectors and assistants. They were, in
fact, overweighted. Now none of these difficulties
need stand in the way of a sanitory board.
Of the mischiefs such a body mast attack, all science
and humanity have already admitted both the nature,
the causes, the intensity, and the remedy. They will
be acting on foregone conclusions. Except a West-
minster Commissioner of Sewers, no one will now
dream of denying that sewers ought to be egg-shaped,
instead of square—that they should be regularly flushed
with water, instead of being made depositories of un-
diluted and stagnant filth. There are no Maltha-
sians with one theory, and anti-Malthasians with
another, in sanitary matters. Then, the remedies to be
be applied, unlike their effects, are scientific, not
social. It is true, some private interests may, suffer
for the moment from the removal of a nuisance,
or the opening of a cul-de-sac, but, the sacrifice
will be made up in many demonstrable ways,
each as the increased efficiency of workmen, the
diminution of police expenses, and poor-rates. Self-
interest, truly conceived, is unquestionably enlisted
on the aide of the proposed changes. The board, it
mud be remembered, is to do nothing, except through
its local inspections. It moves on local application,
receives the plans which the municipal surveyor has
provided, and approves of them, or points oat their de-
ficiencies for correction. Here is no initiatory legisla-
tion, properly so called, of the central body. The thing
to be done is determined on the spot, and a higher
authority is called in to see that it is the right
thing. We do not see how this can be said to diminish
self-reliance, or supersede self-government. It is
only seeing that self-reliance is wise, and recalling
self-government to its conditions where these
are forgotten. It is not taking the reins from the
driver, but informing him of a ditch ahead, or sug-
gesting to him the best means of avoiding a collision.
Meanwhile, let us see what strong grounds for the
supervision of a central authority are to be found in
the peculiar nature of the work to be performed.
As things are, a dozen boards in every town are,
and have for years been, doing what, to be well done,
should have emanated from one source. Drainage
has boon independent of sewerage, gas of water,
lighting of paving, levelling of afreet arlangernent.
The bill proposes to transfer all these powers to the
town councils. Thus the mischief of conflicting juris-
dictions will be avoided for the future, and its existing
effects gradually amended.
But if all these works must henceforth be carried
on by this one body, their task will be proportionately
increased in difficulty and intricacy. They will re-
quire the aids of medicine, chemistry, civil engineer-
ing, and architecture. Few towns, except the very
largest, can of themselves furnish such a corps of
officials as and be called in to advise and plan for
the new mandeipal commissioners. Liverpool may,
and Manchnisr, and a few other of our great com-
mercial and laminlbeturing places. They, will need
bat little wesetision from the central board, and will
pas* swim but little. But in the majority of
plates, so sanitory step of an important kind can
safely be taken without subjecting the local plans and
surveys to the highest authority—not vexatiously to
interfere with, but carefully to verify and test them.
The work is of that kind which should be done
once for ell, and well. It involves too much trouble
and displacement of existing arrangements to
allow of its being tinkered and altered without
intolerable inconvenience. Let the inhabitants at
Fleet-street testify to the nuisance which sewerage
repairs alone may occasion. Now without the best
advice, and the strictest inspection, this sort of patch-
work rill be of frequent occurrence. At all events
the evil must be guarded against, and no means et
guarding against it appears so effectual as ad central
inspection by peFuliarly qualified
.persons, etached
from all local prejudices and petty interests.
We have expressed a desire, in all cases where a
central authority is instituted, that it should be of
limited duration.
We believe that a central sanitary board is, from
ii priori causes, unlikely to be perpetual. It carries
within its breast its own act of abdication. If it
dos its work well, it loam itself, at had, nothing to

THE ,EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 6, 1847.

The engrossing topic in Paris on Sunday was the
change of ministry in Spain. The ministry and
its friends looked grave. The opposition was
triumphant, and the promises of what has been
ironically called the grande ?antique of M. Gaizot,
so reverberated by his ministerial organs after
the Spanish marriages last autumn, are now mer-
cilessly reproduced by the unrelenting malice of
his opponents. Where, they ask, is the evidence
of the predominance of French influence, which
was so confidently promised in the Peninsula?
Where, save in the Montpensier dower, can be found
a single advantage to counterbalance the apparently
irreparable embroilment with England?
The Spanish marriages, it was said, would produce'
no other change in Europe than the immutable es-
tablishment of French influence in Spain. " But the
result," says the Conatitutionnel, " has been in all re-
spects the contrary of this. While everything has
been changed in the rest of Europe, nothing has been
altered in Spain. France has no influence there ; she
cannot save the ministry which effected the mar-
riages from sinking under the weight of its unpopu-
larity. Prudence has dictated the retreat of the
heiress presumptive to Paris, and an overruling ne-
cessity has driven after her the ex-Queen-Dowager.
Regent. The master of the situation is a
young general in the confidence of the Eng-
lish embassy, to whom Mr. Bulwer addressed his
protest against M. Isturitz's intrigues, and who
now makes and unmakes ministries.
During the last week, MM. Guizot and Duchatel
have been making the most strenuous exertions to
rally the supporters of the cabinet, for the purpose of
smothering the proposition of parliamentary reform
produced by M. de Itimusat, in the bureaux, so as to
prevent even a debate upon the subject in the cham-
ber. The result, however, of these ministerial exer-
tions has not been satisfactory ; and, apprehensive of
another check, like that sustained in the case of M.
Davergier de Hauranne, they have thought it more
prudent to give up the point, and appear to acquiesce
in allowing the presentation of the proposition to the
chamber, rather than engage in a struggle in the
bureaux at the imminent risk of defeat. Contrary,
therefore, to the universal expectation, an article ap-
peared in the Debate on Sunday intimating that snob
is the intention of the cabinet.
The object of the proposition of M. de Remulat is
to effect tome reform in the enormous system of cor-
ruption by patronage which at present prevails, and
is from year to year on the increase in the cham-
ber. The Chamber of Deputies, which consists et 469
members, includes 195 placemea, the breath of whose
nostrils is drawn from the patronage of the Tuileries.
The advices from Madrid of the 30th ult. bring no
further intelligence of interest. The formation of
the new ministry was in progress; the appointments
announced in oar correspondence of yesterday having
been gazetted on that day. The Ministry of Justice
had not yet been filled ; but it would probably be
conferred on M. Bahamonde. The new ministry had
received the felicitations of its friends, and the con-
gratulation of various corporations on its accession to
power. M. Salamanca was preparing to make exten-
sive changes in the personnel of the department of
finances. The report mentioned in oar correspond-
ence of yesterday, that Espartero would receive the
embassy at London, was still credited. It was also
said that Narvaez would be sent to Paris.
The Gazette de Madrid of the 30th gives a detailed
report of the speech of M. Pacheco in the Chamber;
but, as we gave the substance of it yesterday, it is
needless to quote it.
General Serrano addressed to the fiscal charged
with the prosecution against him, on the 28th, the
following letter:
Your Excellency, —My conviction that it was not consistent
with my duties as a senator to accept an appointment which
the government of her Majesty wished to confer upon sae,
his given rise to a prosecution against me which,
to the public journals, has been entrusted to your charge.
never had the intention of withdrawing from the autho-
rity of the tribunals. The desire of avoiding an act of vio-
lence contrary to the respect due to me as a member of the
high legislative body, was the sole cause of my ceocesliag
myself. Convinced that the law must be obeyed, and duty
own innocence and the consistency of my conduct as due to
my position, I present myself to your excellency to be judged.
and I await your orders in the Hotel Rue d'Alcala, No. CS,
where I reside.—Madrid, 28th March, 1847.
El .Espanol says that Don Patrizio de la Esoossiza
would be named Political Chief of Madrid ; DOll
Jose de la Concha Captain-General of Madrid;
General Cordova, Governor; General Serrano, In-
spector of Cavalry ; I)on Manuel de la Conchs, In-
spector of Infantry ; General Roe de Olano, Inspector
of the Civic Guard ; General Oribe, Inspector et
Carabineers ; and that General Prim would also be
advanced to a high post
A motion was intended to be made in the Senate by
Count de Vigo against the new ministry, similar to
that which had been lost by a large majority in the
representative chamber, but, on finding the result in
this latter assembly, it was withdrawn.
El Espanol says that one of the first measures
which the new ministry will propose to the Cortes
will be a project of law to re-establish the liberty of
the press.
_EI Clamor Public° says that General Fnlgosio,
brother-in-law of the Duke of Rianzares, husband of
Queen Christina, has been dismissed front his com-
mand as Governor of Madrid.

ROME, MAR= 28.
The struggle between the Roman newspapers and
Austrian interference, of which we had reached the
crisis when I wrote last, has just terminated in the
total discomfiture of Metternich and the triumph of
the press. The " edict," forced on the pusillanimous
(31.7;, has, thanks to the firm attitude of one local
editors, become a dead letter; and yesterday all our
journals came out fresh and vigorous as ever, without
the ghost of a " government stamp," and evincing no
trace of meddling censorship. The Cotemporatseo,
at the head of the public instructors, shows redoubled
energy from its short repose, and contains articles of
an eloquence and ability which the Parisian Delude
has seldom exhibited. I transmit you yesterday's
number. It is understood that no change will be
attempted in matters of public journalism "for the
present year," and such a concession to the late
out-bunt of opinion is quite tantamount to a
final settlement It is a point of etiquette
tacitly understood in Rome, that no edict
once promulgated can be formally repealed,
however it may be suffered to lie dormant : for in-
stance, the late Governor Marini issued an ukase
against fox hunting in the Campegna, according to
which the horse and his rider are still liable to fine
and confiscation ; yet the hounds meet twice a week,
and the whipper-in is reckless ; habemus contra to
Catalinam senatus consultum vehement et grave ; txreint
tanowim pladium in vagind recondition !
Last night, another kindly effort was made to aid
the life struggle in Ireland, and produced a thousand
dollars. Adelaide Ramble (Sartoria), in unison with
a number of amateurs, German, Russian, and Italian,
got up an extemporaneous concert ; and the Spanish
Envoy at this court flung open the long dmmUd halls
of the once gorgeous palace of his national embassy
for their reception. Lord Ward paid for the lights,
and Earl Compton sang, as did Countess Calergi, De
Rongemont, Prince Wolkonsky, Count Cestlebarco,
and bliss Brown, of Maya. Nearly three hundred
years ago, in these identical saloons, Olivarex and the
general (of the Jesuits) Aquaviva organised the
rebellion of Hugh O'Neil, in Ulster; and here the
" blessing " of the Spanish Armada was concocted.
IThe same roof looked down last night on somewhat
more meditable proceeding%

Pius liX., .have popularity flags not among the
lower and middle claim. does not meet with the
same enthusiasm among the selfish and worthlems
" nobles," who have for ages preyed on the vitals of
this land without exhibiting a particle of the quali-
ties by which their forefathers bought their honours
and distinctions; it is true that some of these Roma*
Patrician families at no period produced any great
men, but merely gained wealth and an hereditary
position from the accidental elevation of a Pope,
whose stupid nepotism became a mine of inexhausti-
ble revenues to his lucky relatives. Some very pro-
minent and very frivolous leaders of fashionable life
here will recognise themselves in this description. Not
of. this origin, however, is the faintly whose
mansion the Pope honoured last week with a
visit, being the first time he has paid each a compli-
ment to any of his private subjects. Prince Massimo, '
though an indifferent postmaster, is unquestionably one
of the best born and truest gentlemen in Rome, being
an undoubted descendant of the sole surviving Fabius
out of the 300 who marched to Cremera ; and through
Fabius Maximus and a line of known consuls and
subsequent magistrates of this city, traceable in every
link to the present day. Mabillon, Litta, and Cardinal
Mai, have each in turn elucidated this unrivalled ge-
nealogy, so as to defy cavil. But if anything: were
wanting to corroborate the testimony of parchments
and marble inscriptions, the experience of every tra-
yeller from Civita Vecchia, or Florence, might be ap-
pealed to as to the slow-coach system prevalent under
the present functionary, whose kin:nanship to the
`reef esoutaior is thereby invincibly proven.
Lieut.-General Sir Dugald Gilmour died here on
the 25th. He had fought at Quiberen, Copenhagen,
.Corunna, Talavera, Busaco, Nivelle, and Toulouse,
and was Colonel of the 2nd Rifles. lie lies with
beats and Shelley. To their grave the finger of
glory points steadily, as it may to his now.
Gibson 's statue of the Queen sails in the Tiger from
Civita Vecchia for Southampton, on the 9th of ApriL
The rules of your Academy are not s t stringent in
point of time as to preclude her Majes entrance
through the portals alter they are cloud by regula-
tion. If you are over scrupulous on the point' so
much the worse for yourselves. The Prince of Ca-
nino visits England by the same conveyance, and the
convenience of this new line of the Peninsular and
Oriental boats is beginning to be generally appre-
ciated throughout Italy.

DAMASCUS, Manes 8.
There is a legend that Mahomet paused on the
crest of tha Salahieh that overhangs Damascus, and turned
away, refusing to enter the city, saying that his paradise
should not be of this world. Certainly there cannot be a
more sublime and beautiful view. The trees at this moment
are all out in leaf and many in Bower,. Only picture to
yourself the effect of one blooming forest unrolling itself for
massy leagues each way in the plain below : the domed city
booking in the midst ; blue streams creeping to it from
Mount Hermon ; the line of the desert horizon losing itself
in the sky, between the faint blue hills of Palmyra on the
N.E., and the darker masses of the Haouran on the S.E. ;
while, to your right and left, the bluff headlinds of Anti-
Lebanon march out into the vast plain. Presently, you
dive down into the sea of blossom below; and aired between
fragrant orchards to the city-gate. Within, it seams as if you
were riding through some immense village ; so unvaried
are the mud wets on either hand by anything in
the shape of architectural elegance. You are, therefore,
not a little surprised when the inn which receives you,
' which is no better in external appearance than any other
portion of the clay street, turns out to be a sumptuous
palace within, with marble-paved courts, fountains, orange
tree<, alcoves adorned with mosaic, chambers with abun-
dance of Moorish carving, painting, and gilding ; in abort,
quite a little Alhambra. You sleep in rooms as big as a
church, lulled by fountains, which are no doubt very plea-
sant in summer, but in the sgueiah month of March might
be &greased with, with great advantage to the traveller's
health. This is one of the best houses in the Jewish Tsar-
ter, which is famous for the splendour of its rtsideetea.
The principal Jewish family is Farkhi, who, Ida IR*
connexions, form a numerous clan. The two =inbreeds*
of this house are at issue about an affair which has maths
great deal of noise here, and of which the details ate else
gular and mysterious.
Moses Farkhi, at the point of death, gave into the bailie
of his wife Deborah certain papers, which he directed her to
deliver over to his brother Rafael. But Deborah, who was
then pregnant, conceiving that she might derive some ad-
vantage to her issue by the possession of these papers,
neglected to execute the dying injunction of her husband,
and after his decease continued to retain the papers. In the
meantime Rafael died, having remained, up to tht moment
of his death, in complete ignorance of the disposition of
Moses in his favour, and leaving heirs his three sons, from
whom Deborah continued to withhold the documents, now
become their right by inheritance. Some years elapi,
when a certain Israelite of Constantinople, by name Khaim
Khermona, son of the wealthy banker of that name who
was put to death by Sultan Mahmoud, came to D ,mucus,
and sought the hand of Deborah in marriage. The
widow of Moses received his suit favourably . they became
contracted according to the Jewish manner: and in the
intimacy which ensued previous to marriage Deborah
fell so entirely under the inffuence of her betrothed, that she
concealed from him none of her affairs, and among other
confidences disclosed to him the matter of the papers which
she detained in her poseession. Khaim Khermona having
got wind of these, did not rest till he had wormed out of his
fond widow the key of the casket where she kept her papers
and jewels. He now not only seised the documents in ques-
tion, but according to the subsequent declaration of Debo-
rah, jewels and other papers of value. Khermona, how-
ever, denies this, affirming that he secured no more than
one document. While bent on turning this to his exclusive
advantage, and devising expedients for availing himself
in the most profitable manner of his discovery, the Farkhis,
obtaining knowledge of his proceedings, surrounded him and
beset him with questions. Foremast in importunity
were the heirs of Isaak Haim Farkhi, brother of Moses,
whom the astute Khermona fooled to the top of their bent in
supposing that the secreted instrumeat would turn out a great
accession of fortune to them. But finding that Menaghim, the
elde,t of these, desired to obtain possession as cheaply as pos-
sible, by menaces or perhaps farce, Khermona transferred
the document to the hands of his friend, Shadi Stambouli,
dragoman of the Prussian vice-consulate. Upon this,
Menaghim and his party, at the end of last October, sent in
a formal petition to the Prussian vice-consul, M. Timone
,
representing that papers belonging to them, and subtracted
from the possession of Deborah Farkhi, had been deposited
in the bands of the Prussian dragoman, and demanding the
restitution of these. This was the first step towards making
the affair public, The Prussian vice-consul instantly seat
for Sbsdi Stambouli, to question him about the matter. On
the other hand, the Kehaya of the Pasha, in the absence of
his chief, who was then absent from Damascus on the pil-
grimage to Mecca, having had the business brought to his
ear, urged the examination of Shadi Stambouli. An infinite
series of petitions, protests, rejoinders, examinations, and
citations take place ; and, at last, on November 18, all the
parties interested are summoned to main their appearance
at the Prussian vice-consulate, to be present at the opening
of the sealed document. I must here explain that
M. Timone is also the dragoman of the English
consulate, and that, during the absence of Mr. Wood,
he resides in that house, which has alrmly Issoome so
familiar to the European public, by the many riegs and
engravings which have been made of its banded amt.
Hither then all Farkhis, male, and female, repair ; the Mbar
profusely decorated with jewels. A venerable Rabbi
at their head. All assembled, after due rounds of
cahliouns, sad coffee., the cancelliere breaks with
the big seal. All eyes are on his fingers and faciril=
pent in eagerness is Menaghim Farkhi. Perhaps the mow
tent, will make him a millionnaire. Perhaps not. We shall
see. The chancellor looks at him and reads with swift
accent. It is a bill made payable to Rafael Farkhi, and
signed by hank Khaim, the father of Menaghim ; the
amount 3,000 purses, or 15,0001. Not more confounded was
Shylock at the unexpected turn, which the pleadings of the
"second Daaiel " took against him, than was Menaghim
Farkhi at the prise, which he had pursued with so much
eagerness, and hunted into the net of chancery, turning out
—worse than a blank—a debt. On the other band, radiant
are the visages of the heirs of Rafael, whom gratula-
tory friends forthwith surround. But notes of 23
years standing are not so swiftly realised in cash.
And now the via-consul steps in to demand his fee of 2ê
per cent. on the deposit. Unless this be paid down on the
nail in hard cash he will not part with the bill. Meantime,
Utak Khaim Farkhi, who is liable for the amount of the
bill, disappears, and cannot be anywhere found. The heirs
of Rafael are perplexed. They decline paying the deposit
fee, affirming the surrender of the bill by Shadi Stambouli,
their agent, to have been forced, and not voluntary. The
match between widow Deborah and Khaim Khermona is
broken off, and Kern on& imprisoned upon suspicion of hav-
ing abstracted other valuables from the casket of his affianced.
The grand bone of contention remains in chancery, and so
the matter hangs, filling the Hebrew quarter with feverous
agitation and hot dispease, exercising all tongues.

FRANCE.—Pans, ARIL 4.—Count Roy, formerly
Minister of Finance under the restoration, and reputed to
be the most wealthy landed proprietor in France, died in
Paris on Saturday morning : he is reputed to have left a
perty of 80.0001. a year.
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Tun FRENCH POST-OITICE.—The slowness of the
transmission of the correspondence front London is begin.
sing at length to raise strong expressions of discontent. The
made, which leave London at eight in the evening, are never
distributed in Paris before ten o'clock on the morning of the
second day, and frequently not until after midday. Never-
theless, Ibe yeas asedsary for their actual trensmission need
not Mud damn bears. The Corsatitistioutel of Sunday
notion dde ohms is the post nuns department thus : " Not•
withdrawn( the seenentisoml geed awaked in the trans-
mission of sensmien ei the railway from
Andra la= lis asepatehes wbfd loam London in
the swig am new dieledsnald i Pests dB the
of the essemi day, or 36 home MISS their deperhere,rlds. staiTtp
the time requisite for their lamemienos is espy 16. This
amsdhisa might be obtained it the podoolise authorities
would hug a hide more sheaths to the intomets of Com-
e
have Paris at seven us the
evening wa assM at Amine at de m, and at Ablriville at