The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY Mounts.
The Fulton steamer, with mails from New York
of the 17th inst., passed Hunt at 9.10 a.m.

THE MEDI'

lIALTAt Dl9. 24.

This present war between Spain and Morocco
revering supplies from being sent to Gibraltar, brass
crowding the place with refugees, not to mention the fact of
the Testa of France, England, and Spain being in the vici-
nity, sad sera the troops at Amebas drawing some sap-
plies from Mr.lter, food has become very dear them Beef
and mutton, of the beet quality, la Td. per lb. Powlses.om
2e. to 3s. era; pearls, lit. pet lb; egge, lc 4d. the
Breed ccosiderary creeper then In Malta, at which prim
trepan slightly error than lest year. This beingehrietass
time the market Is crowded, and is abundantly supplied with
all the necessaries of His, and looks very gay, the meat and
fruit welshed with lowers and gold raf, and tastefully
ornamented with beagle. The show of meat, beef, pork,
mutton, &c., is azosßeat, sad poultry of the finest to any
extent, and very fine vegetables and huh. Pike, almost hills,
of magnificent crave, manderlaa, egg oranges, blood
loranges, and pomegranates and areas in great profusion.
Prior —Beet bid std atuttas, ed. the pound of 14 os. ' •
turkey., from Ss. dd. to Ile. each; mean pigs, 24. 6d. to 45.
each • oranges, di. the dour ; mendartne, 6d.; melons and
poutearanars, id. the pound; breed, Sid. the pound ; mac-
aroni, 4d. the pound. Ali three me wry deer for Malta,
particularly the two latter. Timis two last are the principal
food of the inhabitants, and their dearness pewee very
heavily on them.
It is usual in Malta for the rich families to seslet their
poorer neighbours with luxuries an Christmas-day, and 1 be-
have that this year there will not be a human being is Malta
without a good dinner sad a glass of wine with it. I have
suede inquiries in all directions end from all classes, and 1
filly believe that not oas of her hfajesty's subject* in Malta
need be hungry on Christine& day, but that every one will
be provided with good and wholerine food.
All that are in her Bakery's employ will not only have the
neosswies, but the luxuries, such as few poor in England
out command.
The soldiers and sailors have made grand prepuatlons for
bouquets on that day. Turkeys, nesting pigs, hams, plum
puddings, mince pie. in profusion. Every vessel in port Is
dressed out In banqueter( style, tasteful chandeliers have
been erected between deer, sad the sailors have shown great
taste in adorning their acres with wasp bsagbs with the
oranges pendant front thew, ash thin Ytobe a grand dis-
play of chairing the pope* dim Ping 161 decks, for at
Christmas Jack Is *Mewl Ikea* cad be eseeddere be has
• right to show how he appeolstas the Mame of warier
affirm by chairing than an that day.
One charming lady, the bride of a maw segisia, hat
accepted an invitation to duo with Ike4Mom ea Wig as
that day. I overheard • council =wag dr MINS 111601611
they would not chair her round the decks, white sae aid
fellow rid might easily be done, if they could only get her
to " err reef tier crinoline."
The seamen and the soldiers have leave to go into the
town, but the °Boas are very wisely doing all in their
power to induce them to snake their rips and their barnas
their home.
• quantity of holly and mistletoe was brought out In the
Femur has decorated the shop of the Gunter of Belts, and
gar has bees the demand upon him for • little bit of hie
treasure. Those who could not get mistletoe have without
hesitation christened acme other green plant by that name

fur the nonce. - -
Her Id sjeety bow &leo sent to her sailor son a good sapply
el mincemeat from Windsor Castle, and I saw a gentleman
taking some of this an a grist miss to his Maltese srlb.
Bead. we perambulating the strews, every second tune
being "God awn the Queen," and her health will be drunk
over and over *gabs by her soldiers and her sailors at Malta
this Claziatzasa. . .

Tirsoki....7"...ene of the 23rd give a bell on the 26th in hewer
of their sew colours. The demand for the Bdi•room
Guide" has for the time quite superseded that for the Drill
book.
Surdas rails for Palermo on the god of January, and
Guess Ix Athens.
Captain Vsaihan, R.M., her Majesty.' ship Euryalue, pr-
emeds is Rumbaed by this mail, and the two French admirals
from China to France.
Prince Victor of Robselolie, having bean poeted out of bee
M►jsty'e skip floourp, proceeds to Trieste by next mall.

General Ulloa, ex-ematnandant of the Tuscan
division of the Bth corps of the army of Italy, under Prince
Napoleon, has been named commander of the Legion of
Honour, on the proposition of Ids imperial highness.
A Vienna letter in the Argitntrg Glautts says:—
" The elite of the aristocratical perry engaged la °Mee haws
Mailed cm tayiog their sad other emoluments at
the lest of the Emperor, that is to say, on serving grata•
Wooly, so as to lessen the public burdens, and sa•ist men of
merit who have lately been obliged to retire. It Ii said that
Pield•Marahal Prince Windischgrats suggested the idea,
and the three Princes de Lichtenstein, Princes &hwarts•
satarg and Lobkowits, Cettuts Clam•Ciellee, Wien gen,
Groans, and Beischach, all wealthy noblemen, are named
as having agreed to it. And besides, all the archdukes who
mew private property have, it is mid, made the Emperor
the wise offer far flee years." _ . _

•
The Asiatic Society of Bengal have resolved to
tow a sew series of the " Bibliothene Indica" It will
begin with the " Bury' Blddhanta," the great fieurscrit work
on Astronomy, translated by Pandit Baps Dere, of Benaree,
and the " Sena Biromsni," a shorter treatise, both edited
by Archdeacon Pratt.
A Hong-Moog paper says that the officers of the
garrhket persist in excluding the Panes as a body from
their theatrical performances. The step is generally con-
sidered unjustifiable, and haa led to mach ill-feeling.
A serial in monthly parts is being published in
Calcutta; concerning It the knifiehmen says A trial
is beteg made of the literary appetite of Calcutta readers by
the publication of a tale in numbers, after the fashion set in
England by Dickens, Thackeray, and others. It is milled
Bagglesbury Hall, a Tale of the Nitementh Century.'
The first number woo published by Messrs. Thacker, Spink,
and Co., on the first of the present month. The author, Mr.
Hamilton Hume, asks from his readers only a generotui con.
ekbration of his endeavour' to amuse them. It is impossible
to judge from the few pages before as whet Is to be expeeted
from the tale; bat we fear that however well written end
aniusiog It may be the author will not meet with that
enomuageoesst from the Calcutta public. which is the best
incentive to ends labour."

We see from the Madras papers that an effort is
Slag ride there to establish a Home for Chriatian Wows
who gels a livelihood by their own 'mhos, Smiler to the
Elision Hose in Calcutta.

Portugueee literature seems to be reviving in
Bombay. A Mr. Virgins, a clerk than, has written Gerard
Portuguese plays. The eanalleet corps of Indo-Lualtanian
Amateurs" anemones that they will produce his opera 0
Tempi(' de Mork, or 0 Muds Orfew ; The Temple of Death,
or the Damb Orphan; and his lugs Use der de Paribas, •
Pali of Pigeons ; and present all who perthase tickets for
the performance with a photograpitio hkenees of the author.
Camera wrote his Luaiad in Macao.

The Madras Rising Sun, a native English paper,
says the railway company bare resolved to attach a carriage
to each train for the roltudvs as. of ilindoo female pr-
esagers. Not satisfied with this, the editor tells Sir Charles
Treveylan "It will greatly tend to enhance the value of his
adminstration" if he cares more than one carriage to be
set rids tar thie purpose, that the pariahs may be kept by
themselves.

A COISRA.—An instance of intrepidity is related
by the Bombay Timm It eppeara that while a party of fifty
pawns of the Jewish community were engaged in conver-
sation, previous to prayer, Mr. Reuben unwittingly round
trout its repeal a large cobra di cepello, which at once
pounced upon the disturber. Eluding ha grasp the young
man caught the cobra in the middle Edits body, but It &Mg
ff with a violent jerk, and again turned upon ite assailant.
Mr. Reuben, however, held the cobra • third time in Ms
hand, and giving it • awing in the air, struck Its bead against
the ground several times, and killed the dangerous reptile,
much to the admiration of the Jewish patinae* peseent os
the spot.