The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-30 00:00:00

AUGUST it): 1865. .

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SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 30.
The Royal Mail Company's Mame: Seine, with
the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 165
passengers, including the Hon. Mr. Jermya, from
Lima, Generale Preston and Walker and Mr.
Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederate
States, also 1,686,853 dole in specie, 2,566/. worth
of jewellery, 6,7001. worth ot precious stones, and a
general cargo.
of the 2nd
The Tasmanian, with the mails
instant, arrived at St. Thomas'e on the 16th

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instant.
The revolution in Peru was gaining ground.
The presidential government in Lower Peru was
gradually beeoming confined to • narrower circle.
The new ship of war Union, on arriving at Val-
paraiso from England, went over to the revolu-
tionary party, and the Peruvian minister for Chili
left his place and proceeded in the Union to take
command with the rest of the revolutionary fleet.
The revolutionists were making • combined move-
ment, and had arrived at Buaoho, near Lime. Busi-
ness throughout the entire country was unsatisfac-
tory, and the prospects of the President Pizet were
gloomy. Exchange, 37d.
The Seine left St. Thomas's on the afternoon of
the 13th. Shortly after 10 o'clock, when about 50
miles from land, the veasel was disco_
vered to be on fire in the forehold.
Most strenuous exertions were immediately
taken by Captain IftevetAto oonfine the fire, prevent
all the access of air, and the ship was immediately
turned with all speed for Bt. Thomas, arriving
there about 4 o'clock on the morning of the 14th inst.,
when with the combined assistance of the crews of
the company's vessels in the harbour, the fire was
ultimately esti nguished without reoourse to scuttling
the vessel, which at onetime was feared. Holes were
cut through the ship's deck, and water poured
irt which materially subdued the fire, but not
until the fore-hold was nearly gutted, and a
great deal of cargo destroyed, mostly cigars.
IThe passengers, in appreciation of Captain Revett's
'active and prompt exertions and the discipline of
the crew, presented him with a piece of plate and a
testimouial.
The religious bills under discussion in Chili had
been passed by the Chamber of Deputies. Those
not professing the Roman catholic religion are now
allowed to worship under other edifice', and dissen-
ters are allowed to establish private schools for the
instruction of their children in their own religion.
There was no business news. Exchange, 46 d.
to 47d.
In Guayaquil everything was quiet. After the
revolution trade steadily improved. The lands
belonging to the revolutionists were confiscated and
sold.
The tobacco season had commenced in Esmeralda.
The crops were unusually large and fine.
The town of Buenaventura was full of armed
mes, who called themselves the Panama expedi-
tion. They stated they were awaiting the arrival of
another force, and that they would then march for
Panama, their object being the overthrow of that
government.
The revolution in Ecuador was at an end, and
everything was quiet.
The government of Nicaragua had delivered up
General Barrios to the government of Salvador on
• contract being signed that his life should be

spared.
At Trinidad the weather was fine, and the crops
were looking well.
At Barbados' planting was going on rapidly, and
provisions were cheaper. The town was busy.
The weather wee find at Demerara, and the ma-
nufacturing operations were progressing. Coals
were scarce, and but little produce offering.
Freights unchanged.
At Jamaica the drought was over. The island
had been visited with rains. Business was im-
proving.
The orop of sugar *roped' that of last year by
2,000 hhds. The crop of pimento was small, but
the coffee crop was expected to be good. Ordinary
sells from 56e. to 605., and sugar from 14s. to 18s.
Exchange on London, 1; prem.

AMICRIOA.

3OUTIILIIPTON, AUGUST 30.

The North German Lloyds steamer Germania,
'from New York on the 19th iut., passed the
Needles at 1L65 a.m. to-day.

BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
ALEXANDRIA, ACOMIT 28.
The Manilla and Delta left here, with the above
mails, at 10.20 a.m. to-day, for Marseilles and
Southampton respectively.
The former has 795 and the latter 2,469 pack-
ages of cargo.

WEATHER REPORT.--(THI8 DAY.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

MOM On OWN
PARIS, Vomit $111311116.
• Por once the weather is a proper subject of con-
versdtion, and even for a few lines. AMC a day of
intense heat yesterday, Paris was visited with a
deluge of rain about 3 this morning, and it has
rained a sort of autumn drizzle nearly without in-
terniission ever since. The fêtes at Portsmouth
interest people here more than those at Cherbourg
or Brest, and there is great disappointment felt at
the idea that the weather, which spoiled the dis-
play at Cherbourg, should again prove un-
favourable to the united fleets. Although
the same interest is not felt here in naval
as in military reviews, and only the govern-
ment papers seem to have wished to draw
attention to the visit to the French ports—a
suffi-
cient reason, by the way, for the rest of the press
to say as little about it as possible—there is, at
least, a great curiosity felt to bear of the reception
that will be given to the French sailors in England.
The absence of royalty on both aides takes a great
deal from the interest with which the event would
otherwise have been regarded ; and it is, at least,
unfortunate that advantage has not been taken of
the facilities of railway travelling to enable Prince
Alfred to spend a day with his brother sailors. His
presence would more than compensate for the
shortcomings which are at least not improbable in
the arrangements for the fides.
The Emperor came to Paris, as stated in my last,
to-day, and received the letters accrediting the new
Spanish ambassador. His departure for Biarritz
and interview with the Queen of Spain will depend
on the Empress's return. She is expected on
Thursday at Fontainebleau. The news of the suf-
ferers continues favourable. Princess Anna'
health is nearly re-established.
There is an interesting report published by Dr.
Colucoi, president of the sanitary department
Egypt, on the cholera. He traces the epidemic
the Mecca pilgrimage. On the Durban-13airam,
the day of sacrifice which terminates the religions
observances of the Hadj, there are often from 7t.
to 8130 thousand pilgrims assembled at Mount
Ararat. The march of these crowds through
long deserts of sand, the unaholesome food,
habit of burying the dead close to the surface,
be uncovered by a few days of wind, infesting
air, have all weakened the constitutions of
pilgrims, and made them a ready prey to disease.
Add tothistheexhalations from the offal, blood,
bones remainigg from the slaughter of some .
millions of sheep sacrificed, and which in the burn-
ing sun putrefy in a few hours, and the results are •
a matter of course, in fatal epidemics. This year t..
Kurban-Bairam was in the month of May—l need
not remind your readers that the Mussulman year
of twelve lunar months—and the mortality was -
dreadful that 100,000 fell in a fortnight. During
the entire pilgrimage, from the entry into
sacred precincts, the pilgrims do not change
scanty clothing which custom prescribes,
filthy though it may be, carefully treasure
when they resume their ordinary garb to distri-
bute in shreds among their friends on their return.
Those of the dead are equally taken care
to be given as relics to their friends.
would seem, therefore, that the pilgrimage is, .
fact, an annual assemblage of human beings
doomed to more than decimation, and that
survivors adopt every imaginable preeautio
carry the atmosphere of disease thus produced
with them to their homes. The Sultan's goi
ment may do something to increase the danger.
withdrawing, as it has done of late, the
allowed for covering over the animal remains
intensify the infection ; but it does not seem
it or any other power can interfere with wh
regarded as a religious duty by a large portioi
the human race. The question is surrounded •
difficulties, such as an oriental government
hope to grapple with.
This has been a bad year for mountain dim
The Bund of Berne announces the death
German, M. Bceppner, and his guide, Euglin
flinger, on the glacier of Titlis, in Underwali
Their bodies are visible on an inaccessible
M. Hceppner leaves a wife and tea children.
The Bourse has been agitated, but the effc
the "bears" have been insignificant in result.
have only produced a fall of sc. in Route and
in Mobilier.

THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH FLEET
PORTSMOUTH.

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PORTSMOUTH, illOtrliT
The French fleet arrived at noon to-day, •
ships are now resting quietly alongside our
fleet, forming two lines, the French ships
the place of honour nearer to the shore,
lines being about 200 fathoms apart. Everythl
has gone off in perfection ; the auspicious me
came with brightness, and a brisk wind blowing
from W.N.W. blew across the great billy range of
new fortresses upon Portedown-hill, those costly
luxuries of protection that never will look more
ludicrously out of date than they do now before they
are half completed. The French captains, how-
ever, will have seen by this time that Portsmouth
is protected more by the hidden bulwarks of sand
and those two natural guardians of rock, tale
Long Rock and the Nab, which surround
the entrance to Spithead anchorage, than by
any of the forts in progress for the purpose.
No doubt, the French seamen know the charts of
our coast as well as ours do those of France, but this
is quite another thing from being able to take a
fleet through this most intricate channel. To enable
the French ships to navigate the waters at Spit-
head it was necessary to send on board each vessel
a master of the English navy to pilot them from off
the east end of the Wight to their safe berths
within the shelter of that beautiful little gem of
the sear—the Wight. Here the two, fleets now
ride at anchor in water from 10 to 20 fathoms, and
perhaps two miles in width—the whole breadth
from the main Mad to the island being about five

miles.
The natives of these hardy regions and all 11
visitor sightseers were first roused to the important
events of the day by the booming of the guns saint-
ing the Lords of the Admiralty, as they embarked
at 9 o'clock to go out to meet the French Minister
of Marine and his fleet. The people came hurrying
out upon Southosa-common, and while many of
the early birds took up a strong position
on the green slopes of old Souther& Castle,
thousands crowded the line of the esplanade that
runs from this point towards Portsmouth, and
covered the beach down to the water's edge. The
French colours were flying in company with the
Union Jack in every direction, the whole place, the
churches especially, literally glowing with Sap.
The morning was delightful, and time passed
quickly in watching the slim yachts sporting on
the waves, now running,here, now there, Tath eV;
ward children, but still somehow Indies their may
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