The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

COLONIAL NEPOTISM.

Family elmrets in this province, says the Halifax
San, have been pre-ty well used up by the ass of worm,
tud E is in the istwir of tne pat; le to prevent, it they will,
such combiu tions atisibet their best interests tor the future.
Some of the sister colonies, however, are still cursed with
Malty compacts; and, among the number, New Bruns-
wick, es the f .lioniog extract from a recent letter, in the St.
Joint transom, mid show :
Chief Justice Chipman.
His Wolter in-lew, Mr. Wright, advocate general.
His nephew, Hr. Has m Judge of the Court of Vice
Admiralty, leeearder of St. Len and an Executive CAin.

ci.lor.
His cousin, Mr E. B. Chandler, ehrk of the peace, our.
roger., 'knee of meoriagit licenses for Westm aloud, judge
of the Common Pleu in Albert, and estimative councillor.
tunes ocusin, Mrt W. Chandler, surrogate of Kent, and
Tis nephew, Air. Le Baron Drury, sheriff of Kings.
His nephew, Mr. Chalos Drury, registrar of deeds and
wills in St. John.
His nephew, Mr. Blisaßourford, supervisor of great roads.
His nephew, Mr. Blair B 'Word, sheriff of Westmoreland.
His nephew, Mr. 0 orge Botsford, clerk, of the :egisla-
ti re council.
His nephew, Mr. Bdwin lartaturd, member of the
legislative o oatiell.
His nephew, Mr. Coipman 13atsford, surrogate of Resti-
gonehe.
Beside s many miiior j ,into of the tail, who claim no re-
lationship with the heal, but who never.heless are put and
parcel of the compact

SOUTHAMPTON PO
MRT ON OF THE INDIA
AIL

The heavy portion of the India Mail arrived at
Southampton yesteriay morning, in the Peninsular and
Oriental St Lieutenant
eam Navition 0 trioany's ship Indus, Caatain
J. Soy, in cbarge of Lieutenant Tancock, R.N., Admiralty
agent.
Indian dates h . v., as usual, brill anticipated.
H N. stlineam-r Ormler was at Alt xsairia,
an with four
Egyptian e-of-battle ships, three irigites, d two tor-
vette,.
At Malta.-11 N. ship Ceylon, the Prince Regent. tho
Hercules store-ship, the Antelope, the Tunisian steam
frigate Woos, and Frenel, steamer Egyp'uh.
At Gibraltar on the 19th itst.—H M.S Janus.
On the 19th, at 1.39 p.m., the Indus exchanged signals
with H.M. strew steamship La Hogae, working thtotieh
the Straits of Gibraltar, with the Arrogant and the Encoun-
ter in steht. On the 9:h, at 8 a m., exchanged colours with
H.M. steam-packet Merlin, in lit. 32 N., long. 27 46 E. Dec.
14, spoke H.M. steamer Medina, four miles off the north-
west end of the Wand of Gov). Dec. 20, ark- the bargue
Ann, of Bristol, eight miles north of Cape St. Vincent.
The Indus brings hates from Lisbon to the 15th inst., six
days later than hose received by the Montrose.
HAI. frigate Leander, with the steamers &quire and Con-
flict and the Russinn frigate Pallas, was at anchor in the

Two.
The petition of the opposition party fee the dismissal of
the Count de Thomar had been presented to the queen
through the Home ottce, and published in the Portuguese
journals.
The government ; rem *Milberg the petition to a renewal
of the plans of 1846 for eliciting the people to a revolution;
wt,iht the opposition declare that they alone seek the dig-
' missal of the Count de Thonsar, std not the rest of
the ministers. It would seem that all idea of
'soy other change in the cabinet before the meet-
' Jog of he COM/. had been abandoned, and that the free
quent councils of ministers which hod been held related to
sew projects of law upon finance, army recruitment, liberty
of the peas, dm., which were to be submitted to the Cores,
and upon which it was ,aid the different members of the
cabinet had come to an understanding, as also that the Count
de Ehomar should justify Women in the House of Peal
against the allegations in the petition primate .1 to the Queen.
It was said tout the ministry had agreed to the nomina-
tion 01 a new botch et peers, end that the matter was in con-
sideration at. a council of state which the Queen was holding
when the accounts left, end that there was little doubt of the
following nominations to the peerage, viz., Counts Can! and
Anadis, Viscounts Moncorvo, C enspanhsa, and Fonts Nova,
Baron Monte Pedral, a. d M. Alburgatia Freire, a deputy
and Loge landholder in t e A:emtejo.
On the night of the 14M-16th an attempt had been made
to assassinate Mr. Munoel Brown, is the corridor+ of the
Liubon Theatre of Bun Carla. He is a son of Mr. M. C.
Brown, ot Oporto, a prison of the Bemtembriste, and was
little injured, the dagger Laying taken elect in his arm in-
stead of his si.Ns.
Ihe Jupiter steamer, with the English mails of the 7th
instant, had only reached Li-bon on the 16th, parly in c 41-
sequence of her delay in a iruitlew attempt to take an abaft •
dooed ship into Vigo; the vessel had been met with tff
Cape Finisterre, and was supposed to be Ameri, an. The
Jupiter had also been delayed upon the coast of Portugal by
etense fogs, which had prevented vessels entering Me Tagus
for two Gays.
aiThd sere was no alteration in the Lisbon quotations of stocks
ham. Discount on benk-notes 39 per tent.

GALLANT CONDUCT Or A BOTe—Dnrifig the dense
fog which prevailed in the
as
neighbourhood of arminghtm on
the afternoon and evening of Tuesday week, a lad, ose
name we have unfortunately been unable to certain,wh dis
played, under very perrous circumstances, an amommen-
unt of
manly courage and coolness worthy of the highest co
datiun. It appears, from the facts we have collected, that
on the evening in question a little irk, named Broughton,
residing in the locality of Dartmouth-street, whilst on her
way home, from the density of the atmoephere completely
lost herself, and although ignorant how to proceed, walked
blindly on. At this point, near the bridge, where it is con-
jectured she first missed the road, the street is unconamony
rugged and ill-lighted, and the aroaches to the caoal,
which runs cree by, are quite opens end unguarded. It is
supposed. therefore, that the girl wandered near the water, I
and, unable to distinguish it, fell into one of the locks, n
almost empty. She would inevitably have perished bad
not her serethss attracted the attention of the youth alluded to,
who, having soon ascertained her imminent danger, de-
scended the lock gates, holding on by the projection on its
surfers until he reached the water, when he succeeded ie
catching hold of the clothes of the terror-stricken cbild. He
held her firmly and above water until their united tries
brought some men to their amistonce, when they bobnlanded.—Birminghans Journal.