The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1858.

India, and a redistribution of political power in the
United Kingdom--these are objects more than
sulacient in themselves to tax to the utmost all that
practical wisdom which a long course of suceessibl
self-government has taught the world to swan to
the Parliament of Great Britain. It is no matter of
surprise that the great Assembly should take a
breathing time, and not plunge, before the note of
war is clearly sounded, into the dust and turmoil of
that uncertain strife.

Last night witnessed nothing more than a few
prelusive flourishes, followed, apparently from the
mere necessity of making a show of doing some-
thing, by a sham passage of arms. After Mr.
MILKER Glasow had received the cordial and unani-
mous greeting, which was no more than a natural
tribute to his reappearance on a scene where his
clear sagacity, prompt good sense, and invariable
good humour had won for him very general esteem,
the routine business of the evening com-
menced by the usual form of giving notices
of motion. Many of these were sufficiently
pregnant intimations of the coming warfare
—Signe of the Times none the less striking
for not being ostensibly meant to strike. When
Lord Psutaairrox announced that he should next
Monday bring in a Bill for the purpose of amending
the laws regarding conspiracies to commit murder,
and Mr. Horace' that he should this evening put
• question to his lordship relative to any correspond-
ence that may have paned between the Government',
of France and this °pantry on the subject of the
Alien Bill, the significant cheers of the House
showed that every member present was fully alive to
the gravity of the questions which have been raised
by the crime of Italian assassins and the madness of
French sycophants. The notice by the Prime Minis-
ter of an intended vote of thanks to the Army and
Navy for the services they had rendered in India
stria& • chord which vibrates not less strongly in
the Hasse of Commons than in the hearts of the
people they represent; and the statement by the
Cstsnclxunt of the EXCHZCIVEI that he should
this night propose a resolution for granting an
annuity to the widow and son of the illustrious
lisvaLocr, proves that Government are not ignorant
of the wide-spread feeling which, with unerring in-
stinct, has singled out this hero as prominent among
a crowd of heroes. Mr. VERNON Sutra's an-
nouncement of en early application for an
Indian loan merely communicates intelligence
which has already been " discounted " in the
money market ; but Colonel Bvers's avowed in-
tention of moving to-day for • return of the cadet-
ships conferred respectively by the East India Com-
pany and by the Presidents of the Board of Con-
trol from 1840 to 1867, forebodes pretty clearly the
nature of the struggle which is impending between
the two branches of the Home Government of India.

The preliminary business having terminated,
Colonel EVANS TOSS to move, pursuant to a notice
given before Christmas, fee a "select committee to
" inquire concerning the measures resorted to, or
" which were available, and as to the lineeofcommu-
', nioation adopted for reinforcing our army daring
" the pending revolt in India." The hon. and gal-
lant Colonel, after a few preparatory remarks,
which the reporters appear to have had some diffi-
culty in catching, handed in his motion. Lord
PALMERSTON, with adroit alacrity, instantly Mee to
accept it. There was to be no debate then—all was
over—a speedy adjournment appeared imminent—
the dexterous Premier had succeeded in getting the
whole matter quietly referred to • Committee up-
stairs. This was too much for the leader of
her lIAJEsTT's Opposition—labouring probably
under the burden of oratory that couldn't get
delivered, and a curious and confused scene seems
accordingly to have ensued. It was objected that
the hon. and gallant Colonel, in order to obtain the
assent of Government, had unwarrantably changed
the terms of his motion ;oh, somsthing different
from what it had stood on the Order-book ; it was
ruled by the SPEAKER that he had • right to do so,
and Lord PAL.MERSTON moreover was so obliging,
as to intimate that he had no objection to take the
motion as it had originally stood. It was put accord-
ingly as it stood in the Order-book, where it appeared
with the addition of this clause, " with a view to as-
" certaining the arrangements which should be made
"towards meeting any future important emergencies
" involving the security of our Eastern dominions.'
To its being pat in this form an objection was taken
by Lard Joan Ressru., on the ground that the
added clause improperly limited the scope of the
proposed inquiry. In the discussion raised on this
weighty point Mr. DISRAELI contrived to get
prosperously delivered of a few pungent epigrams
about " monsoons in the Desert of Suez," which Lord
PALIEISTON capped by a retort touching " Sand-
istorms in the Red Bea ;" and several good Conserve
fives on the back benches kept up for some time
a straggling fire of indignation against the
gross negligence of Government and the alleged
treachery of the gallant Colonel in thus enabling
them to escape, on a question so vital, into the safe
obscurity of a Select Committee. Finally, the sham
fight led to a division, the details of which those
who are curious about the matter can see elsewhere.
The result was that the motion passed in its original
form. With this mimic passage of arms the rifting,
far LI the great majority of members was concerned,
came to a close, Sir GEORGE Gary being left to pre-
sent an outline of his intended demolition of the Cor-
poration of London to rows of empty benches, whose
former occupants had been carried away by the more
seductive eloquence of the dinner-bell. So ended the
Ant meeting of the Session of 1838. Who can tell
how fierce a spirit of party conflict lurks beneath
these initiatory forms of conventional warfare, and
" hushed in grim repass expects its evening prey ?"

MIL MAC.AIILAT ON LEGISLATION FOR INDIA.—
Tlis HOW) of Commons is, indeed, the check provided by the
unstitatiest co the abase of the royal preceptive. But that
4k Woes in or is ever likely to Le, an afildent shook on
Anne twestiewl In India, I altogether deny. We have, es I
lam ww eIl hal, quite business enough. If we vas to
undertake the tisk of looking into Indian affairs is we look
lab /*kik aloha, 24 hours a day and 366 days*. year maid
M tee alert • time for the dircharge of our dudes. The
byre, k Y plain, ham not the necessary time to mule these
=Ulm ; nor has it the necessary knowledge ; nor has it the
meow to acquire that knowledge. The late change fa its
eenetitation has made It, I believe, a much more faithful tw-
pmeentation of the English people, but it is u far as ever
Ikea bring • mpresentation of the Indian people. A broken
heed in Cehibeth-delde produces a greater cremation ming
us time tires pitalnd battles fa India.—Sparch on inweeis
of the Cliesposy's Merin.

_
THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIIITT OP LONDON.—At a
mat Illy pant tattetiag, lad yetterday, at the Boalette
Hew, ta liesever•eweere—des Right Row 81e 0403dP
Mk, ml., viee-mettleal, IN the chelr—llestwe. J. A.
Tatum, A. W. T. Aslant, sad W. F. Low, wee eiseted
Ulm, sad Dr. Popham, so a correspoedtei member of
the aeliety ; sad liswes. P. Reidy, F.R.8., wed H. A.
Tem% woe parsed el candidata for the fellowship. The
amber a vision to the prdette doting the month of Ja-
ws, premed ea iserease of upwards of 3,000, as compered
wI theeme poled of lest year.

TIM CNIALIMANIIIIIP OF TRZ MIDLAND ALM-
wAN.-11. ualentaud that Jobs EU, Seq.. les seceded
to theft liqueur of We brother Maulers le lois oo-
eery bre Awl period the Glob of the hen& ctrl I. yeerlde
at the ballßyessty general tints of dr essoray, be he
bid ups the leth February. After the emeral Mistime
the essubleratiou of the appointment of a priereavit chub.
Bra idll so doubt mums the early atteuties of the beard.

Cbt Court.

The Queen sad dr Prince Comet, with the Prince
et Wee sad the Duke of &me Coburg, attesied by the
Boa. limbo !Boylan., Mejor. amend Buckley, amiCokael
F. H. Seymour, visited the British Mtwara ismorday
aftssaa.

The Duchess of Heat visited the QUella et Beekinghara
Nice.

The Priebe Caron presided yeelerday at a meth; of the
coma of the Ducky of Cornwall, heed at the Debby-oak&
Beirirtnerham-geb, Bt. James Path. There were abo pee-
went the Hooper of the Privy Seal, the ♦iaooent Month ,
the AWeary-Oamel, Mr. aJcssarier ; the Treasurer,
Colossi the Hon. Cheadle Baaatheat Phipps; Lord Port-
ers ; aad the Secretary, Mr. J. IL Gardiner.
The Prbaos of Walla, atleaded by Cobol' P. H. Say-
moor and Mr. Gibbs, visited the UMW Pavia bratitatkes.

The Queen and the Prince Carat, assomprded by tie
Doke c 4 Sees Coburg, hammed the perferseemes et the
Priarnee's Theatre with their peewees la the eveabg. The
royal smite coexisted of the Combo of Deer% the Ron.
Houle Stopford, Lotd de Talley, Major-Goemal backlog,
Calomel Y. IL Seymour, B it Truism, sad N. Seaver.

Mr. lawn Mr. C. 3. &Iv's. QueWs Compel, and Mr.
W. Chapman, a deputation from the Vestry of Rich-
mond, with Mr. H. Smith, Vestry Clerk, had an in-
terview with the Right Hen. Sir B. Hall, at the odic, or
Public Works, Whitahall-plaoe, respecting the Richmond
reels.

The Julialal Castaittai alas Privy Canon rat yesterday.
All appeal, "Ponta v. Hampton" (Tamaaals), part hoard,
mu ccaohaltd, end a appeal, " Farradry v. the Mayor of
Mositmal, Camas," was part baud.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

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r, FRIDAY MORNING.

The Magdalena hie arrived with the Went India,
Pacific, and Mexican mail. Her dates are :—Vera
Cruz, Jan. 4 ; Havannah, 9th ; Jamaica, 12th ; Deme-
rara, 1 lth ; Trinidad, 11th ; St. Thomas, 18th.
Amongst her carp is specie to the value of
2,232,349 dole.

Amongst her passengers is the Bishop of British
Guiana.

H.M.S. Imaum was at Jamaica. The Basilisk and
Artchne had left Jamaica for San Domingo. The
Bastard had gone with the Governor of Barbadoes.
The Atalanta wiui gone to Antigua. The Leopard
and Brunswick were on their way to Blneflelds.
Admiral Stewart was expected at Barbadoes, from
Bermuda.

From Mexico we learn that the state of affairs was
deplorable. Vera Cruz and other parts were
opposed to the dictatorhip of Comoutort, and a civil
war appeared inevitable. No ministry was formed.
The British charge d'affaires did not join his
colleagues in congratulating the president, on w-
ool:int of the outrage on her Majesty's legation in
July last.
Amongst the specie by the Magdalena is one
million of dollars from Mexico.

Captain Tucker, of the Royal Engineers, was ac-
cidentally killed at Jamaica.

Eire saloon servants belonging to the mail steamer
Thum were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at
Greytown.
The island of St. Vincent is healthy, and the cane
fields give promise of a large crop, but the scarcity
of labour is severely felt at Trinidad, Barbadoes,
and Demerara. The weather is fine, and the oondi-
tion of the crop. most satisfactory.
At Jamaica there has been a various falling off in
staple exports, but there is a prospect of increased
production and remunerating prioes.
Exchange on London : Jamaica Bank, 90 days,
' If per cent. prem.; merchants' bills, 90 days, one to
a half per cent, discount.

The Governor of female& has proposed a sub-
scription on behalf of the sufferers in India.
The legislative session has closed. Forty-six bills
have been passed and received the governor's assent.

From California we learn that the season hu
been wet, and the miners are expecting a rich harvest.
The large drain of gold for Eastern shipment has
not been felt at San Francisco. Business has been
dull. Gambling is being put down. Walker, the
filibuster, is not thought of in California, and
figkting men are looking towards Utah for employ-
ment.

From Valparaiso we learn that trade had not
suffered through the European monetary panic. The
silver and oopper mining interest is flourishing.
The diplomatic questions between the Chili=
government, and America and France, are not yet
settled.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Vaddivia was lost, passengers and crew saved.
At Bolivia all was quiet. At Peru the govern-
ment and revolutionary parties are remaining inac-
tive waiting for each other's attack.
A grand ball was given at Aspinwall to Commo-
dore Paulding, who captured Walker, the filibuster.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom oul OWN

PARIS, THU/I/DAT ETENTWO.

The Presse re-appears to-day, after its two
months' suspension. The government has taken
away from it the privilege of being sold in the
streets, and in order to counteract as far as possible
the effect of this severe blow the journal announces

that it will receive weekly subscriptions of Ifr. 26c.,
for which extraordinarily low price the paper will
be delivered at the houses of all subscribers in
Perim. But the Presse retains no element of
its former self, beyond the barren name.
Oirardin and Natter are gone. M. Peyrat, who
wrote the brilliant article which led to the suspen-
sion, and M. Darimon, the member for Paris, both
announce in this evening's number that they have
no longer anything to do with the paper. It is
now a mere hulk of literary property which repre-
sents nothing whatever but the very natur►l desire
of the proprietors to make it as saleable as they can
in the teeth of the existing laws. The leading article
of this evening, headed pretentiously "The Orand
Political Problem," is signed by the new editor, M.
Ad. Outrank, a gentleman of whom little is known.
'After reviewing the state of France in 1789, 1816,
1830, 1848, and 1831, it comes to the conclusion that
the great political problem now•a-days is how to
make the most of railways and other joint stock un-
dertakings, and announces that such are the subjects
which it proposes to treat of. In abandoning the
high ground which the Proses has so long occupied
with courage and ability, amidst infinite perils, the
proprietors of the journal are acting a prudent and
perhaps necessary part. There is now no place in
'France for independent political journalism.
One of the most violent personal articles that has
appeared in any French journal for many years is
published in this evening's Petrie against M.
Veuillot, the editor of the Univers. He is de-
scribed by the government print as a boxer
from an English tavern disguised u a
beadle, as a man with whom every difference de-
generates necessarily into a scrimmage, as a pam-
phleteer who has been for years the bane of true
religion, and so forth. Although the Potrie takes
liberal ground by reproaching M. Veuillot with
having "respected 'either the tomb of Beranger
nor the retirement of Damartine," it is careful to
add, in a tone of haughty security, "We are'not
demagogue I we are neither the Biiele nor the
Debate ; we speak in the name of religious and con-
servative principles, and we say that danger comes
not only from demagogues, but from pamphleteers
who so distort principles that they bring truth itself
into contempt." It concludes by saying:—"The
money changers who invaded the Temple were
driven out of it, and such will be the lot of the
pamphleteers." What can be the meaning of this
extraordinary onslaught upon a prince of the
Jesuits P If authorised, it would seem to bode the
suppression of the /hikers ; but I doubt much
whether any such intention is entertained. On
the contrary, although it may be thought politic to
disavow them, there are many circumstances tending
to show that the Ultramontane party represented by
the Univers was never more influential at the
Tuileries than now.

The Bourse, after opening heavily, revived to a
considerable extent, in oonsequence of the Bank of
England having lowered its discount. The Rents
rose 20c. for cash, and 260. for account, closing at
ellfr. 10c. and 89fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 12fr. 600.
Money is plentiful in Paris, but it is nevertheless
not thought that the Bank of Francs will make any
change this week. The railways were from 2fr. 80c.
to Mr. higher, bat there was not a great deal of
business done.
A French lady of fortune, Madame ds Clermont,
living at No. 108, Rue du Bac, est fire to her dram
is her drawing-room this morning, and was so
dreadfully burnt that not the slightest expectation
is entertained el saving her life.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 3.

The King of Denmark was suddenly seized, the
evening before lut, with an inflammation of the
chest, from which he has before suffered on several
occasions. The malady showed itself by a frequent
cough, attended with fever. Yesterday, these symp-
toms had abated, and last night was tranquil. His
Majesty is mach better to-day.

THE ENGLISH PRISONERS AT NAPLES.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE TRIAL.

(MOW OUR OWN 00113810NDENT.)

SALERNO, JAN. 30.

The great political cause, commonly called the
Bapri cause, came on for trial yesterday morning.
To Englishmen it wears an especial interest, as two
of our countrymen are amongst the prisoners.
Their ease has been long before the public, and,
after having been imprisoned since the 28th of
June, 1857, they yesterday, the 29th of January,
were brought to trial. I desire to give you full
details of this important case with equal fearless-
ness and moderation. Truth alone has always
been the object of my research at all times, and
whilst I continue to correspond with you, I shall re-
port what appears to me to be the truth, come what
may.

As the old Court was too small for a cause in
which so many were implicated, a new Court was
formed in the suppressed Monastery of St. Dominico,
where, too, are barracks for the military. The trial,
which was to have commenced at 9 o'clock, did
not begin till 10 o'clock, and on entering the
Court the scene was a very novel and remark-
able one. Within, u without, soldiers were
under arms in every direction. We walked
through a file of soldiers on our approach
to it, and we were surrounded by soldiers on
entering it. Still we must acknowledge that, as
foreigners, we were received with the utmost cour-
tesy. Outside the bar, within which sat the judges
and the advocates, were rows of raised seats on
either aide, on which were placed 288 persons ac-
cused of a conspiracy against the State. The court,
properly so called, was special, and consisted of the
Piesident, the Procurator-General, and the ten
Judges—there being two more than the legal num-
ber as substitutes in case of illness. The first day
presented, of course, little if any interest in the
matter of the proceedings. The President an-
nounced that four of the prisoners were ill, and
then ordered the names of the others to be called
over—a labour not finished in a moment. He then
exhorted all to behave with great moderation, gave
permission to the prisoners to make any observation
they desired, and directed that due attention should be
paid to them, in the event of their wishing
to leave the wart. The address of the President,
which then followed, describing the facts of the
case, was remarkable for its calmness and its strict
adherence to truth. It was just what it ought to
have been, but what it rarely is in a Neapolitan
court, and I cannot speak of it in terms of too high
praise. The simple and faithful narrative of event.'
by the President was followed by the Act of Accusa-
tion of the Procurator-General, which was the
opposite of the address I have had occasion to
praise. It was false in its substance, lam told, and
offensive in its style, as proceeding from one who was
anxious to ingratiate himself with the Court by low
arts. The sitting terminated, however, without the
Act of Accusation being finished. There was little
that occurred during the morning to call for re-
mark. It was easy to distinguish between those pri-
soners who had been fed by the bounty of their friends
and those who had depended on the bounty of the
Government ; the former appeared in good conditiop,
in full health, and in good spirits. Baron Niootera
is a very handsome young man. One of the pri-
soners who sat near him, whose name I do not re-
collect, has a face full of deep expression. Park and
Watts were both apparently strong and hopeful.
But, for the others, God help them ! I will pass
them in review presently.
A slight incident occurred during the trial, as fol-
lows :—A prisoner rose and said, " Signor President,
this gendarme has given my companion three blows
in the face." "It is not true," said the Procurator-
General, without being able to see. " What is it
asked the President, on another remonstrance being
made. " Nothing, Signor President," cried out an
officer on guard ; and there the matter terminated.
On leaving the Court, I waited to see the prisoners
taken back to prison. Sentinels were placed at the
opening of every street or lane, and all the troops
were under arms. The crew of the Cagliari were
brought out first, and formed six carriage loads ; not
one of them was manacled, and I saw Parks distinctly,
looking well, and not anxious, and, like many of the
others, smoking a cigar. Soon after their removal
a trumpet sounded, and all the troops were on the
alert. A gendarme on horseback galloped down the
street; then came an officer, flourishing his

drawn sword ; then came another gendarme on
horseback, followed by two lines of soldiers abreast;
behind them were two lines of soldiers in single file,
between them the prisoners ; and last of all came
perhaps upwards of 100 soldiers. But now for the
mode in which the prisoners were conducted : They
were marched in couples, manacled together, and still
farther connected by a long rope, which was carried
throughout the whole line. Those who were fed by
their friends I have already described ; for the
others, they looked scarcely human. Dressed in a
prison uniform, which it is not unfair to conjecture
was lent for the occasion, they appeared more like
beasts than men : pale, dried up, shivering and
shrinking from the cold ; scarcely able to walk
upright from the effects of cold and hunger united.
It was clear that they were living on the bounty of
the Neapolitan government, or on 4 grains a day
(about lid.) I never saw such wretched-looking
objects in my life. And is it against such wretched-
looking beings as these, I asked, that a trial for high
treason is going on ?

Ferukh Khan, the Persian ambassador, has or-
dered from a Paris manufacturer the apparatus necessary
for the establishment of an electric telegraph in Ponds.
The Ober-Kirchenrath issued circulars last week
to ail the provincial oonaistories of Prussia ordering a special
prayer to be put up in all the churches last Sunday for a bier
stag on the marriage of the Prince and PthiC4lllll Frederick
William.

The officers of the Pnumian Regiment Garde du
Carps are practising an equestrian quadrille, whioh they
propose to perform before the newly-married couple neat
week.

The Prince of Prussia hu given up the use of his
Pekoe at Berlin, neat Monday, to the Ministers of Slats✓
the Corps Diplomatigne, and other persons of distinction,
as being one of the beet spots from which to witness the
yereessias.

A Berlin letter states that among the resents to
Prima Frederick William on the woman of hie marriage it
a collation of 160 lotion writhes by Mai Prectoriok Wil-
liam 111. to the Archbishop Meader. The srobtishop,
having lost all his sons, violate to lave these Whirs to the
royal family, end his &voila hiamelf of this opponanity to
teaks • preen of them to the young prince.
The Prussian gorentiment hem Dent a circular to
the provincial anatoritits, rsqussibri thaw to state U they
think it would be useful to &mane from the legialetswe a
law prohibiting the ask of distillid drinks by retail.

AT MEMEL, IN PRUSSIA. *la

:(T•011 • PIIIVATII 001111111PONDIDIT.)

One of the most brilliant expressions of loyal feel-
ing. which have ever been manifested in this country took place
here on Monday last. Shortly after daybreak the city was
aroused by thundering peals from the guns of the fortress.
and shortly afterwards all the public offices end foreign con-
anlatss their oolours to do honour to the occasion,
In the evening a grand subscription ball was given by the
burgomaster of the city and Mr. Campbell, the British
Consul ; Messrs. Graff sad Frentzel &lune act-
ing as Chapeaux d'Honneur. The bell took piece
In the spadona and magnificent new saloons of the
" Schtitzen Guild," which ware brilliantly ornamented far
the occasion with the arms and Bags of the two great nation&
now so closely united ; and we can only say that the exquisite
taste of the decorations was such as has never been equalled
in this city. Shortly before eight o'clock the nobility and
gentry of the town and country began to arrive, and soon
afterwards from 600 to 700 persons had assembled in the
halls. The grand band of Lade then struck up " God eau
the Hume," " Bole Britannia," and the Prussian national
air, after which the Lord Mayor opened the ball with the
lady of the British consul. About eleven o'clock the party
sat down to sapper, and in the absence of the Burgomaster
(who owing to severe Indisposition in his family was obliged
to quit the room at an early hour) the chair was occupied by
Mr. Campbell, the /Mash Consul, who was rapportal on
the tight by Mr. Hairy Fowler, banker, end Mr. Albert
Surber, of Taussianken, and on the left by the Russian and
Hanoverian Oceinle.

Immediately after sapper the Chairman nee, and said, in
German, " I am very sure that nowhere in the Prussian do-
minions will the health of his Majesty the Bing be received
with more eathualasai than in this his ancient and loyal
city of Memel. We have all had occasion of late deeply to
deplore the state of his Majesty's health; nevertheless, I still
sincerely hope that, with the help of Almighty God, he may
soon recover, and again ammo the Wilmot government ; and
may he tire for many years to govern this peat and mighty
nation I" (Great cheering.)

The " Health of Victoria, Queen of England," was sent
peopceed by the Collector of Customs, end was received with
thunders of applause.
The Promustor-Piscal, lir. !Fmk, then rose, and in a wry
eloquent speech gave the toast of the evening—namely, the
.. Health of Prism Frederick William of Prussia and the Pria-
m, Victoria of England," which was responded to until the
walls of the building shook to their foundation.
The Heaths of Prince Albert and the Prince of Prussia
were then proposed and received with rounds of applause,
after which the party re-entered the bell-room, and dancing
was kept up till dawn of day.

Thee is but one opinion- entertained by all peessat—that
there hie never been a ball in Memel like that eves on the
25th of January, 1858.

ROYAL VISIT TO THH READING-ROOK Or THE
Barium Mosturx.—Yesterday afternoon this magniftornt
room was visited for the first time by her Majesty and the
Prince Consort, who were accompanied by the Prime of
Wales end the Primal, Alice. The royal party, who arrived
in a couple of private carriages, were shown into the reading.
room by Mr. Panizsi, the chief librarian, at about a quarter
to four o'clock, by the Forego communicating with the
Ring's library, instead of by the principal entrance. Ao-
cordmgly their presence was scarcely noticed, perhaps by not
more than three or four of the readers, though the room at
the time was filled with its usual number of studenta. The
inspection larded but a few minutes, at the end of which her
Majesty end the Prince Consort expressed themselves much
gratified with the beauty and dimensions of the rem and
the srrangements made for the comfort and convenience of
the resders.

DEATH OF THE OLDEST KNIGHT BACHELOR:*
We have to recast this day the death of the venerable Sir
John Hamilton, knight, which event happened at Dover on
the Ist Instant, at the residenoe of his ,
Luke flarithett, at the advanced age of 93 years.w
SirCatag
Hamilton was a =dye of Dover, and was born in 1766. He
married just seventy yeses ago namely, in 1738, a daughter
of the late Michael Ifiedgoock. 'Esq., and the worthy oottple
lived together se man and wife for no lees then 64 years,
Lady Hamilton having deceased so recently as 1862. Sir
John Hamilton was a captain in her Majesty's Packet Ser-
vice, tad a chevalier dthe Belgian Order of Leopold. He
was 'might= by her Majesty in 1844, ',hash/ had just core•
plated his 80th year. It may be interesting to our readers
to learn that it was the late Sir John Hamilton who oom-
menicated to Admiral Lord Duncan the intelligence of the
Dutch fleet being under Admiral De Winter at see, which
led to the glorious victory of Camperdown, Oct. 11, 1797.
THE LATE CAPTAIN WARDLAW OF THE CARA**
norsmut.—ln our obituary of today we announce the death
of Captain Wardlaw, of the Carabineers, whose family fa
well known in the county of Mid-Lothian. This gallant
young Meer had been in constant engagements with the
mutineen in India sine May last, and was most highly
sin many letters from that country. Heim now the
trdir son of
(out of seven, eta of whom were in the army and
one in the navy) who has fallen in battle for his country.
The letter announcing his death says:—" The men wars
much affected; they loved Wardlaw; and the service has
lost as gallant an oMeer and as noble a fellow as ever lived.
The way in which he led hie mmwas magnificent, and the
men followed him In a body."—EilielbwriA Charon!.
THE OUTWARD EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
The steam-ship Per., Captain Hick*, left Southampton yes-
terday, with the Bast India and China mails, 31 first.cleer.
and 21 seeond-elees a general cargo, and spode
of the value of 217, 41. he Pen also takes out, for oon-
veyance overland to India, 227 troops, being detachments
from various regiments, Tie.: 43 men of, the let hada= M
the let Foot; Lieutenant Amities' and 26 ram of the 44th;
36 UM Of the 3rd battalion of the 60th Rifles ; Hedge Was.
hropp and 60 men of the 66th ; Lieutenant Jima= and 9
men of the 74th Foot; 17 men of the 68th Foot; sad i 4
men Of the 89th, with the following °Moors, Captains Cole,
Farrah and Braokenburg.
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT.—The direct=
of this company have determined to recommend 4 the pep
the declared= of a dividend for the half-yeer =Ow
rlisett"of December, 1867, at the rate of two pat awl. per
annum,of
aboutetitorriat forward a balance to the curried half-yeer

THE CTION-__R NOINE AND ENDLESS RAILWAY.
Boydell and Company's traction-engine mil =d-
ire railway, reoently purehaaed by the War Deportment be
service in the Arsenal, was yesterday got undf vaer el
Woolwich, at the request of the East India Dug
Directors, who were represented by Colonel Sir Preasda
Abbott, X.C.8., and Colonel Sir Proby Cantle y, K.C.B.Aft
were specially in attendance to report on it, the East legs
Company befog desirous of adopting the invention kr fts
transport of troops and munitions of war in India. The est
of 10--horse power, left the Arsenal gates at 2.30, tra
first at the rate of six miles per hour, with a train d bas
heavy artillery carriages, each bearing a fir inch strole
givis
h,
the entire load being about 43 tons. Passing
Berseford-serers, which was crowded with spectate;
the extraordinary-looking convoy steamed op Wellington.
street, and slowly amended the hill at a gradient of 1 in 13,
travelled along the Charlton-road, and pissed cleverly Into I
narrow lane at the back of Sir Thomas Wilton's park well.
This being a curved road, or rather defile, leading to the cM
Blackheath main road, the steersman approached too near the
6111011/2 when the near wheels of the engine became embedded
In the soft earth. This occasioned some considerable de.
lay ; but, by the assistance of handspike" and some
mancetworing of the engine, with an increased power of
stew; it wee ultimately released. By reason of the soft
and elippery state of the roads, this was a work of some
difficulty, and occupied nearly an hour. The guiding-pots
of the engine having been lashed to one of the pas
brought up under the wall, so as to direct its court* outwards,
the engine was then started at fall speed, and leaped horsed.
rising about two fast from the ground, dragging the whole
train onwards. The pilo:age now became extremely
cult, as the next turning formed an acute angt. The testa
was disconnected, and three of the guns were brought Into
the mda road separately ; the shafts of the fourth
having been broken, the gun was left baited. ThrtisZ
than proceeded towards the Royal Arsenal and deposited its
load. A number of opecttatore followed the whole distance,
among whom was Lieutenant Onsaolf, who purchased the
traction engine chipped in 1837 for Russia in a vessel which
was wrecked off the Russian coast. The engine, having
been recovered, has since been employed in the trenspart of
merchandise in that country.
GREAT HAUL OP HERRINGS.—One of the Ayr
Asking bests on Friday night fell In with en immense shoal
of herrings in our bey. On shooting the nets they were in-
stantly tilled, and so deeply was the boat laden that it bad to
be run ashore on the beach, in preference to coming over Ayr
bar. We hear the number amounted to 10,000. They were
sold to go to England. were tlzpannianufscaursi into Tar-
month ftostra I—Edinburgh rosei
Tan Woes or ENGLISH NV:VIM—IL is dila-
colt to form an adequate idea of the immense quality d
earth, rook, sad any, that bedben picked, bashed, she.
yelled, and Whaled Into embankments by
English anvils
&Aft the tut eddy rue. Oa the South-Wallas MI.
way ame the earth removed eneented to deem millions
of ads yerde—a am et enteral mileleat to font • pyia-
mid a aimed het blister with a left el eate limbed sal
=vizi mune pale. lir. lobed flujiTiara
total ausesi oa eli thevallesp se
et
best Au barbed sad fay lingo et was pude Ad
abet des this pepemaa f aWe en astealisseed," be Rya,
to seped Nes at a list ler height ial epee; bat ay
theili ettliennedi met time waive vedd fur el.
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noliateda bee a alb be tilemeeer at its hen, eel raft
fate as shads me nee raid a half in height, east
the ear el lhe seasteia of earth which then rich
avoid thikaiimethile el. Isere-perk hoot the Ilene
to Palma maid e
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