The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

the Interior declared that he would 00t77"----....
discussion under the head of supplementar%..otkr
tor the department of the interior, or under tJt—,
his budget for 1848. M. Rogier, however, aoa,,,ee,, st
intention to put some questions to-morrow to the hi .1r
the Interior, which may lead to a debits. Tite"""eril
adopted today the budget of ways and mean., artee-ekitk
in which the reform of the post-office was part:c.oh rwlit
on. The Renate likewise voted the ,:pro;oet dela
land-tax fur 1847, the budget of the public &la, and -
tht
Cations. It then entered on the general debate of the ,
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of foreign affairs' and the budget of the finance --"A
The diligence from Namur to Louvain has I)eet,
layed two days on its way to Namur. Iv iolls
that the snow has blocked up the coal, but we
conceive how the dilgence can have been downed email
as le.
' A day or two ago a wolf was killed near the railway steal
of Liege, drawn, we suppose, by hunger, into the-,,--sw
of the city. A letter from Rome, of the 10th, says..o,,
Holiness Pius IX. has been pleased to give a
wal4
audience to his Excellency Prince de Chirnaor—").
voy Extraordinary of the King of the Bel 4""
the Holy Sec. The Princess of Chimay, he, 24
dren, and her mother, Madame Pellapra, were IA:,
received by his Holiness. This noble family was eaZuo.,
with marks of distinction very seldom granted. IN 1/7
nes4 was pleased to r...ceive them in hi. drawing room
the ladies sit down, and gave all the children (who are
handsome), kneeling before him, his ring to kiee malt/
taking the head of the youngest between his hulk CZ
them ad.—M. Beamister, director of the bank of
had disappeared, leaving considerable debts. fie lies
—rgo
been travelling in America and in Egypt, and after an!
peregrinations has returr.ed to .Muie4t4r and su "
himself.
S W ITZ D. —The Paris Omeitationsei
Wednesday, in referring to the remov..l of the represse,e:
of the Northern Courts from Berne to Zurich, says 4-71i7
day on which the triumph of the liberal party at Beni:
pear d certain, the ministers of most of the powers wieZ,
it to be understood that if Berne took a step further ;74
path of innovation, that town should cease to be theresi
of the diplomatic corps. What wax last sunnier only at
has become a reality. The inhabitants of Berae:-.7,;
being willing .to retain their old constitutive,
order to keep amongst them the diploraeti.ts, the
number of the latter, on the order of their am
have just quitted Berne and removed to Zurich. The siow,
taneousness of their departure evidently shows to am",
argument ; and what imparts to this proceeding all the";I:
ratter of a demonstration is, that in a few day4,oa din
1, 1847, Berne will become the Vorort Canton, and wig;
at the same time, the seat of the directory and of the Di-g".
It is, therefore, the moment, when they ought men ffeto
ever to remain, that the diplomatic carps have theaeet at to
depart. The French government hasnot dared tosin clew,
in this act of ill-humour on the part of the alnolutist ?am,
It would take right good care, whilst maintaioineitsamee
ter at Berne, not to appear to assume its part in the mug
revolution of Berne ; and, whatever desire it might lute e
dares not yet make common cause with the remain .
It has, however, found an expedient, which is to haseeitt„
resident minister. M. de Buis le Compte ha' ;oar to get t
to present his credentials to Dr. Zander, Presidentottla
Diet, but he has orders to immediately take leave dales/
and return to France, there to wait until M.Gursow
summoned up courage to make our amber sailor reside who
he ought to be. What a policy it mint be which lion br
such expedients, and transforms into a grand affair the lob.
ing of a diplomatist ! It leads alternately to the rithrwe'a
and the absurd."

DENMARK.—A letter from Copenhagen nisei,
that in consequence of the dearness of precisions, the Lies
of Denmark has publialml an order of the day, giviags
each soldier an augmentation of pay of four shlos.
(about 2d.) a-day, and an additional loaf every a;
days. Each soldier married with the authonsatioa g
government, and having three children or more, is
receive a second additional loaf every three days.
ASIA MIXOIL—PREsEsr STATE OP TIIE SEM
CneKcun.s.—At a recent meeting of the A-iatic Society,*
secretary read a memoir, by Capt. T. J. Newbold, "N.
present Condition of the Saven Churches of Asia, maps.;
in the Revelation," which the writer has recently chat
He observes, that the history of these interesting
well known ; but that their present condition timbals lib;
adverted to. Ile begins his account with the Church el
Ephesus ; the first mentioned by St. John, and that slue
still maintains its ecciesiastical superiority in giving a bleu
a Greek archbishop while the others have only lishopatt
head,—though it is low in statistical importance. Themes:
Ephesus is now choked up by a pestiferous morn; sof
lonely walls, tenanted only by the jackal, occupy bt
site of the once populous city. The village of Aywiat
stands about a mile from the ruins; and es...walnut%
forty scattered cottages, one only tenanted by a Cho-sta.
The mosque of the village contains four granite °awn
said to have belonged to :he great Temple of Diana—east
ruins are still visible near the port. The mosque is gsisso
decay, like the Christian church; and everything ippon to
be in the last stage of dissolution. Capt. Newbold maxi
that some of the granite which funned part of the lairs
temple had exfoliated,—evidently from extreme hest; el
he suggests that this might have happened when the tame
was consumed by tire.—Smyrna, the most flourishing of the
whole, is an increasing city. Its population—which?) ens
ago was about 77,000—is now above 130,000; and is tidy
increasing. There are 5 Greek, 3 Latin, and 2 Po-twat
churches. The Greek have numerous schools, ma the
Latin a large college ; but the Protestant schools line
failed. The Greek church at Smyrna continues in a Bono-C.
ing condition.—Pergamus is the most presprrous of it
churches, after Smyrna. Tne population is 16,000; dolma
14,000 are Turks, and nearly all the rest Christians. Rs
Christian quarter contains '2 Greek churches and 1 Arms
nian. Close to the ancient church, Capt. Newbold foot
a Greek school; where the pupils were seated on =tie
tombstones, which formed the pavement of the mho&
Ile gives copies of three of the inscriptions there, nose it
which have been hitherto published.—Thystira is stil
a flourishing town. It had been lost to the Christian wadi
from the fall of Constantinople, under the Turkish sir
of Ak hissar, until brought to fight in the 17th century. IL
population is above 10,000; of whom 2,000 are Grtek,ii
120 Armenians. The Greeks and Armenians have tuba
church ; the former said to be on the site of the amine
calyptic church. Captain Newbold co led sere sliasr
boas there.—Sardis, the ancient capital of Crimes, is ow
more desolate than even Ephesus. Scarcely a house resoin
The melancholy Gyg;en lake—the swampy plain oldie Iles
mus, and the thousand mounds forming the necropolis aids
' Lydian monarchs, among which rises ci nspicuous the fig
tumulus of Alyattes—produce a scene of gloomy 'airmail.
Massive ruins of buildings yet remain ; the walla .of whicß
made up of sculptured pieces of the Corinthian and hake
lumns that once formed portions of the ancient Pagan tem*
The Pactoius famed for its golden sands, conta,as no 0:
but the sparkling grains of mien with which the sand stoat
have probably originated the epithet. Captain Nobel
suggests that the singular tumuli of SardiS deserve to be omit
and recommends the subject to the attention of the wiry
Philadelphia has a population of 10,000 Turks, and*,
Greeks. It contains 25 churches—all small and tarlaim
containing fragments of ancient sculptures. A massiveria
was pointed out as the church of the Apocalypse.—Loshes
whose fate had been forgotten for centuries, was broil:Ml
light in the seventeenth century. It was, and is, a mds•
choly mass of desolate ruins. The hills on w:iich it alai
have been supposed to be volcanic,—but erroneously! tla
are composed of aqueous beds, chiefly limestone.

GOL&B SLNGII AND THE PUNJAB.
It is often asked, why was Rajah Golab Stag
highly honoured and so tavishly rewarded for his err
treachery; to us in sending food and ammunition tcl
Sikhs; to his countrymen, ins betraying the cause hey"
teered to advocate ? The premises assumed being inmost
it is only logical that the conclusion should be falst. 1)!
Delhi Gazette—to which the public both of India •
England is indebted for a great deal of correct infers&
on Punjab affairs—is the Cm udation of the error; 16
its pages, if carefully read, would have furnished Sas
correction. Rajah tiolab Singh sent no supplies to tke
army; SW
he only promised to do so ;—in aselt alamt
warrant that they never went, even if we knew IS
from other sources that he sent not a man, nor a fns
of corn, nor a pound of powder. lie only came oda
hore after repeated and pressing calls ; and, when the%
he told the durbar, the chiefs, and the undid's. tks,
" they were asses! tmit, if they wanted voice, he, wholes
taken no part in hostilities, would plied tor them : !Lc'
wanted war, they might go to ruin their own way. Be•
•
taken at his word, and yet not trusted. Nomatily plea-
potentiary, he was associated with the most astute tarsus
of the durbar; and the fault, therefore, is not his. if me,
terms they jointly made were such as the maharsjahlen•
himself unaule to fulfil, except by the cesqou of nue veer'
tory. And when the British government had becost Pk.
sensors of Kashmir and Jummti, Uolab Singh Lad
doubted a right to purchase, as they to sell it. in a°42
for a crore of rupees they took ii; and in esettange..l
crore of rupees they parted with it again. A aaaall
of the press has twitted the governor-general will+
of faith in lending hiinself to a vizier in a nefarioastrin
upon his master. But the accusation was male in 40
ranee of the facts, which have since been published. 001;
ought in fairness to be retracted. the toltowiag nor
bears date so far back as February 3, and shows boreal
the governor-general contemplated, as the best pub
England, what (blab Siu,;h is said to have, at a lacer
suggested fur his own selfish purposes :—" It may
and proper, in the course of tue discussions whiecilrlso
arise, to weaken the territorial power of the
of Lahore, rendering the Bah:lilts of the Hills tudeper-„
of the Sikhs, and my other means involving DA
• • Til°
portion of their territory. •
sg ,
are points which can be better discussed, when the WO_ !
government may seek to approach the govofro
the restoration of peace." (Papers, page ;A) A
the Lahore government did approach the
general, what was there to preveut such
.scho'.eol
appropriation from being carried out, and the Ilia teretio,
being given to Oulab Singh, as a piece act pone,: ry,
reference to any treaties ? Surely nothing
forbearance ; and the objections of the craws, th01f,..,
amount to this, that only us a last resource did ag. ,s
conqueror consent to a partitiou of territory •I••
policy had told him would be wise at first!
t thei't
Two things are at all events certain. lst. Ths
bar, though publicly poor, was privately rich: aster 110'1:1
they had an exhausted treasury ;us individuals ,
stores of wealth. Any two or three of its meuLbe...L;
have advanced the sum for which Kashmir and
were given up, and so far preserved, if they hod en" tie.
it, the integrity of their country. With this: es Nei
fore us, to talk. about the want of patriotism or 1e0c'7...4
Golab Singh—the last of a Sikh-wurcivrid
tc
worse than idle ; or, indeed, as absurd as t 4c7, i,t
Henry Hurdinge of fraudulently scheming. fora 1151 u
eountry which conquest had made his own, in it leer 0
breadth. 2ndly. it was infinitely better, out only for •