The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-25 00:00:00

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE ON LETTERS SENT

VIA FRANCE.

On the let January, 1857, and thenceforward,
the following reduced rotes of postage In letters forwarded
from the United Kingdom is the mails to France, whether
by 'mast or by prints ship, will be substituted for those
sow levied :

1. France and Algeria—sot esending on., 41. ; above
I es. and not *rending I oz., ad. ; •_ove on. end sot
sending ton., Is. ; above oz and not ozondiss 1 ca.,
Is. 4d. Letters for the pines aforementioned nay be
prepaid to Moir (lonisation. 1. Plaees in Turkey, Syria, and
Egypt, at which Primes maintains pan-oilier, viz.:
Alesandria, Jaffa, Bonen; Tripoli in Syria, Latakia,
Alesandretta, Manias, Rhodes, Smyrna, Elgin', Gude-
halloo, Gallipoli, end Constantiaople, Ineladieg Sesta:l—
oot oneedies I oz., 64. • above on. and not ezendiss
Ica , la. ; above Sem slid sot 'sending t os., ls. 61. ;
above I as. and sot enee.nag loz , 2s. 1. no ratmi jut
given are for prepaid lottery, bet letters for Frame or
Algeria p sued enpeid will be charged with doable Me
run specified, and loners for tbe French offices is Tinny,
Syria, or Egypt, panted unpaid will be chargeable with a
rate of 9d. per I or., beton el 64.
Syria and Egypt (the pines at which Freese molntates
post-offices szeepted)—not ezerredisg os ,64. ; above
and not ezendias oz , la.; above 1, z. and not ''riding
as. to OJ., &NM* I ca. and not agendum 1 on., 2s.
es.,
• lettere an only be prepaid to tin port of disem-
barkation..

Letters for the series M *atm nest meatisited may be
prepaid to their destination : Imsembourg. Bads.. 2.
Tire Netherlasds. 2. BM/Web Promia (3). Bavaria.
Wartemberg. 2. German Stable, vis : Hohensoliers,
B.rkenteld, Memo Homburg, Lippe Detetold, thelowarts.
burg Redelstadt, Renee, Nassau, bans Coburg Goths, Sees
Mehemet's liddbergbanam, Reese Electoral, Hesse Darm-
stadt, Sue Weimar Blammelt, Frackfort.ois the-Maine,
Ramberg. Bremen, and Lubeck. Sardinia. tivitserland.
Balmiers, Tunis, sad Twisters—not esciteding i on., 6d ;
above os. and not ezetedieg es., le. ; aborts os. and
set exesedirg t os., 10. 6d. ; shwa and sot sameding
Ire, U. 2. Letters for the Netberbuids, libmish Prussia,
and Um Genies &tame, intended to be sent vet Frans',
mast be too directed. 3 The Mliccrieg are some of the
principal towns ia Rbesieb Prangs, and a oomonlete list will
be give• ia the nut *amber of the "British Postal
Guide," which will be published on the let of 'steamy :
Ain Ia.CI smile, Boss, Cleve, Cobleets, Cologne, Orefield,
Diesealdort, Elberfeld, Emmetieb, &ipso, Fortis, Muster,
Malheis, Neuss, Neavied, Paddabors, Pyrniont, Hems
dub& Berlosla. and Trier or Teems.
Letters for Spain and Portugal may be prepaid tbrongb
Preece at the followine ratite (or both monstrlee—not
stemming es., fid. ; above I os. and mot exseedisg I ea.,
Ild. ; above p os. and not sumeding ea., Is. 74.; soon
gos end sot exceeding 1 es., le. 10d. 4. Letters for Cadiz
sad V.ge are forwarded by peninsuler packet, Raises
specially addressed via Frame. 6. lt,tters for Portugal
tatesded to be mat via France Molt be so dimmed.
6. Lotion for Prussia (the Rhenish provisoes exeeptid),
Hummer, Saxony, Mecklenburg Behwerts, Mteklenberg
fitzelits, Brunswick, Oldenburg (the principality of Birken.
Geld Incepted), and Aahalt, may be prepaid to their
destinaties--not exceeding I , Bd.; above oz. and sot
'needing os., le. 4d.; abort as. and sot 'Rowdiest ,
24.; above es. and sot incereirg I on., 2.. Bd. 6. Litters
foe any of teem plate. intended to be sent via Frame mast
he so directed.
Letters for Timmy, 7. Austrian dominions, 8. Bemis, &
Dimwit, and Panne and Modena, may be prepaid to their
isetisatien—aot eaceedisg t cc, 91. ; above and not
weed*, los 16.6 d.; above p on. and not exceeding t us.,
M. 34.; above p os. and not encircling los , 3e. 7. Letters
for Yesetisa Lombardy are firwarded through Fresco,
oaks. otherwise addreseed, but letters for any other part el
the Anstrian domieioas intended to he teat via Frazee
meet be so directed. 8. Letters for &rola or Denmark
inteaded to be mat via Frame row.t be so directed.
9. Letters for the lonian Islands via Austria may be
prepaid to Trio sw—not emeedies ; above p os.
and not eseeedieg len , Is. 6d. ; above p os. wad not
eneeediag tos , 2t. 3d.; above cc.. and riot excredine
10. , 8.. 9. Letters foe the lonian Islands luteaded to be
sent via Preece must be so directed.

Letters for the Papal States, the Two Sicilies, and Greece
stay be prepaid to their destination—oot exceeding oz.,
Ild.; above f oz. aced not "sending I os., Is. 10d.; obey"
f in. and act szeeeding oz., 24.9 d.; above f oz. and not
enrseediag 1 oz., 3t. Bd.
10. Letten for Moldavia, Wallachia, Turkey in Europe
(the places at which France maintain' post °Mon excepted)
via Amnia, Swedes Norway, Poland, and Russia mar be
prepaid to their deitination—not exceeding oz., la. 3d.;
above oz., and not exceeding I an, 2s. Si.; above f ox.
and not inseediag os., 39.9 a.; above I on. and not
exceeding 1 oz., tre. 10. Letters for then plums Weeded to
be emit via Frames asset be so dinsted.
11. Letters to any foreign country beyond sea, to which
letters may be despatched from a port in France by private
ship may be prepaid to the port of disembarkation not
exceediag os., 10d. ; above f cc and not ezosedlog I es ,
la. 31. • above oz. and not ezeeediag I ox., 21. Id.; above
f oz. and not "'reeding I oz., 2s. 61. 11. Letters Intended
to basest by private ship from • port to France mast be so
addressed.

The postage upon letters for Spain, Portugal, Syria, and
Egypt (the places at which France maintaies post dim
excepted), Selooks, Tanis, and Teapots, or for foreign
cfluoir se beyond ma, and upon letters intended to be Not
via Austria to the lonian Islands Inuit be paid in advise*.
Letters for the other countries specified may either be paid
in advance cr fcrwerded unpaid at the optics of the
'soder. If unpaid, however, letters for Francs or Algeria,
or for the places in Turkey, Syria, or Rgypt, at whisk
France maintains post-dime, will be charged with a higher
rate ea already elated.
Registered Letten.—Letten addremed to all thaw omen-
tries and places to which, awarding to the foregoing,
the entire postage to destuattoa cam be paid in advance, may
be militated at the desire of the senders, and in suck ease
the pditags mast be so prepaid, sad at doable the rates of
postage changeable for ordinary litters.
Ey command of the Poeteeaster•General,
itowz.axa HILL, Secretary.
General Posbofficw, Dee. 20.

Tn AMP.RICAII MAIM—LIVERPOOL, WIDNES-
PAT.—The ;Jailed States nail eteara•ehip Eriaisoe, Cap-
tain Lowboy, sailed thn afternoon for New York, with the
meal made tor tka halted States, a few pawner, and a
hal cargo of ntarshaidina oa board.

DRAMA.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1856.

DUBLIN, Dn. 24.

The Zakeany Moderator of this moroiog, referring
to the run for gold on some oonntry branches of the
National Bank, says : .

It appears that the insane monetary panic which spread
from Tipperary into our county last week bad sot sub-
sided so speedily se we thought when noticing the matter
is oar impression of Saturday musing. During Saturday
there wee a smart rue, toothed entirely to the lower awes,
on the three basks of oar city, the greatest pressure naturally
being en the Nat West, as it was with the branch of that
bank in Tipperary that the movement commenced. How.
ever it mused so ineouveuienos anywhere, u all demands
for gold were readily and cheerfully met; and at the Bank
of Ireland and Provincial *Mae fall confidence in the
stability of the Netionel wee shown by the payment of gold
for any notes of the latter bank offered there. The panic
had sot, however, quite disappeared, even on Monday, as
some peruse at the fair of Bennet's-bridge refused to
receive notes, sad gold had to be out for to tows; but
yesterday (Tuesday) the basins*. at the banks was restored
to its ordinary chereeter, and the run seemed to have alto.
gether subsided amongst on. On fisaday Mr. Costello, of
the National Beak, brought down from Dahlia 16,0001.
is sovereigns, the weight of which broke down the oar
which he took from the railer', to the bank °Mee.
The Tipperary Vindicator announces that the
National Sink panic has altogether subsided. 40 In
what cause it originated," says that journal, "it is
impossible to conjecture with any degree of accuracy.
It spread all over the county of 'Tipperary ; into
Mitchelstown, in the county of Cork; into Limerick;
and notwithstanding the sudden pressure thus thrown
upon the bank, it is pleasant to observe that in every
instance the demands of depositors and of note holders
wen promptly met, and that those who sought for
gold had no difficulty in obtaining it."
The Clare J0W7401, describing the effect produced
by the " run " up to Saturday, says :
Severalpersoer in Billet** and its neighbouring localities
suffered great inconvenience in consequence of a rumour sat
on loot by some evil•disposed person 'pleat the National
Bask. Parties were allowed to return to their homes with-
out purchasing, although producing and offering national
soles for the goods sought for. Several nu into Limerick,
and all seemed esafasks, end the ordinary business of shop-
keepers, cite., was eorepletely done up. Oa this morning,
the 21st inst., all seems quiet and st ease, seeing that the re-
port wee unfounded. We are glad to say that the inhabit-
ants of Clue showed their good sense by not giving way to
the foolish rumours *Boat. _ _

A commission under the great seal has issued to
sacertain what property James Montgomery Knight-
ing, late chief clerk in the transfer-office of the Great
Western Railway (Ireland) Company, was pow
seemed of at the time of his conviction for felony, and
which property had become forfeited to the crown.
The commission will open on the 30th inst., the
4)=mi:beim:ere being H. O'Hera and F. W. Brady,
Esq..
In a cue in which Mr. Bheil, the personal repre-
sentative of the late Right Hon. Richard LOAM She%
is plaintiff, and a Mr. Edward Labor defendant,
counsel movedyesterday, in the Consolidated Chamber,
on behalf of the plaintiff, for liberty to serve certain
interrogatories on the defendant. The action was
brought to recover a valuable portrait of the late Mr.
She:, and a great quantity of most valuable
manuscripts end documents of various kinds, which
came into the possession of the defendant on the death
of Mrs. She% which event took place in 1862, the
year after her husband died. The plaintiff did not
exactly know all the property that came into the
defendant's hands, and he wanted to compel him to
give particulars on his oath through interrogatories.
The court granted the application.
A novel and interesting cue came on for hearing
yesterday before the Lords Justices and several
judges in the Privy Council, being an application
on the part of the Duke of Leinster and Marquis
of Kildare, under the New Hseials Act, to close an
✓udest churchyard at Kilkes, in the county of
Kildare, on the ground that the further use of it
as a plies of interment would be prejudicial to the
public health. The application was resisted on the
part of 87 persons, some of whom were parishioners
of Riles, and others whose friends were interred in
the churchyard in question; and, after hearing
several witnesses, the Lord Chancellor pronounced
judgment, deciding that the overcrowded part of the
churchyard should be marked off, not to be re-opened
on any account, and that portions of the ground not
yet occupied should remain for the interment of the
parishioners.
The Frusta's announces the death of Blaney'
Balfour, Eeq., J.P., Townly Hall, county Meath. He
wan a gentleman of the pest generation, upwards of
81 years old, and was a familiar companion of
George IV. when Prince of Wales.
The "human of this morning says :
We have mesh pleasure in being able to state that a
highly infieential committee(' Is progress of formation that
will shortly give the public as opportunity of testifyiag
their sympathy for the bereaved family of the late Mr.
Little, whose ease forms so remarkable and melancholy a
contrast to those of the railway officials who have been pro-
minently before the public within the peat year. The Mid-
land Railway Compasy have headed the subscription list
with a donation of 2001., and we are satisfied that, had they
made it 4001., they would metre the cordial approval of
their shareholden for this effort to alleviate the sad conse-
quences which must earns to the family of Mr. Little from
the melancholy bereavement they have suffered. Mr. Little
was assamthated while in the performthoe of his duty. Every-
tide' that has °warred la the Doane of the investication
that bas been palsied tends to show that he performed his
slaty with fidelity, with seal, and with devotion to the inte-
rests of his employers. Every man connected with a public
department who Tatou honour and fidelity in the discharge
of similar dative will, we have no doubt, hasten to come
forward end give practical evidence of his approval of such
trustworthiness, aid of his sympathy for the mother who
lost each a son, and for the sister who I, et such a brother,
both of whom are now Oct only bereaved of protection, hat
of support. Public policy, em well em the desire to lighten
domestic sorrow, suggest that this sabecription list should
be filed promptly and generously. We may add, that
several gentlemen of the highest imputability, both in the
city and eonatry, have intimated their desire to serve on the
committee; end our new Lord Mayor will signalise his
secession to ofilos by placing himself at the head of this
*Rattail body.