The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-13 00:00:00

HORRORS OF TRH BOMBARDMENT.

One might write volumes of horrors on the Vandalism
already committed, for every one of the hundred ruins has
its story of brutality and inhumanity. Were there not so
many of the officers of the ships who have strolled about
the town and seen them with their own eyes, I should be
almost afraid of writing them down, so incredible do they
sound. It is, above all, in the quarters to the right and
left of the Royal Palace, mostly inhabited by the poorer
classes and thickly crowded with monasteries, that the
horrors can be witnessed by everyone who walks
up. Anyone MD do so by using his senses. There are the
black ruins of blocks of houses. As you can see by those
which have hitherto escaped, they are in the style of those
at St. Giles's or the Seven Dials, with the only exception
that all the windows have balconies before them. In these
small houses a dense population is crowded together even in

ordinary times ; the fear of the bombardment crowded
than even more a shell falling on one, and crushing
and burying the inmates, was sufficient to n eke people
abandon the neighbouring one and take refuge •
little further on, shutting themselves up in the cellars.
When the royalists retired they set fire to those of the
houses which had escaped the shells, and numbers
were thus burned alive in their hiding places. All about
the neighbourhood of the Albergeria the air is
charged with the exhalations of the corpses imperfectly
covered by the ruins, and with that greasy smell occa-
sioned by the burning of an animal body. If you can
stand the exhalation try and go inside the ruins, for it
is only there that you will see what the thing means.
You will not have to search long before you stumble over
the charred remains of • human body, • leg sticking out
here, an arm there, a black face staring at you • little
further on. You are startled by • rustle, you look round
and see half-a-dozen gorged rata scampering off in all direc-
tions, or you see a dog trying to make his escape over the
ruins ; myriads of flier rise up at your approach, and you
hurry out, in order to escape their disgusting and poisonous
contact. . _ .

I only wonder that the sight of these scenes does not
convert every man in the town into • tiger, and every
woman into • fury.

THE BOMBAY, MAURITIUS, CALCUTTA,

AND CHINA MAILS.

BOUTHAXPTON, WEDXVIDAT.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, Captain Week', with the heavy portion of the above
mails, baa arrived. She brings 201 passengers, 2,4411. in
spade, and a cargo consisting of 1,043 tales of silk, value
upwards of 100,0001., and 200 other packages.
The British barque Vesta bad arrived at Alexandria.
The Indus spoke the steamer Panther on the let instant,
the Maasilia cm the 4th, and on the Bth the steamer Ceylon
and the barque Ina, standing east.
Her Majesty's frigate Terrible, Captain Glaaae, left
Gibraltar for Portmnoath on the morning of the 6th
instant, with Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe on board.
At Gibraltar, the exchange on London was sol for 90
days sight; on Paris 530 ; on Marseilles 513 ; on Genoa
531; on Madrid dbmoant. Freights without alteration.

CANADA.
QIIEF-NSTOWN, WZDNESDAT.

The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Anglo-
Saxon, Captain Bollantioe, from Quebec on tho 26th ult.,
has arrived, and landed all mails. She paved the Nova
Scotian on the 3rd inst. The Anglo-Saxon should have called
at Londonderry, but the captain found too much ice and
fog to be able to return in that direction.