The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, BM.

" they do uriseisai each other, will vale* sad love
" each other. lam set led away by any national
" vanity la that opinion, but I have that conviction
" with regard to the character of my country that 1 ma
" sore the oftener the different chime el society
" meet together the more the whole fabric of society
" will be cemented, the stronger the nation will be ;
and the more each clam wi'.l look to the other
" without jealousy, without suspicion, without en-
mity, with a conviction that there are no ants-
,' gosistic interests, but that the interests of all are
bound up in one general aggregate which forms
" the interests of the country at large." We have
no desire to give these words an exclusive or in-
vidious application, and least of all would we choose
this season for doing so. They were not spoken
without thought, and we hope they will not have
been spoken in vain.

At the meeting of farmers and gentry which fol-
lowed the distribution of prices, the important ques-
tion of the lodging of the labouring classes was
discussed, rather from the landlord's point of view
(that of a wise and liberal landlord, however) thea
with reference to those difficulties which Lard Pat -
nehrrom will have to deal with should he ever
legislate with reference to the subject. His lord-
ship mys he has been told that conveniest cottages
for labourers cannot be built to pay. But he very
properly replies that the return for the outlay on
such buildings mast be sought, not from their
specific rent, but in the general rent of the farm on
which their occupants work. " The cottage for the
labourer ought to be looked upon as a part of the
■ appurtenances of a farm, jest as much as the
" buildings for cattle, or any of those other erections
essential to the cultivation of the land. How can
" the land be well cultivated if the labourers are not
" well housed ? If they are obliged to trudge three
* or four miles in order to get at their work, and the
" same distance home again, it is manifest that they
" must be not only exhausted physically, but that
" their time must be wasted in walking to and from
their work, and that the farmer does not get from
" them the money's worth for the wages he pays.
Tharalleria I staakhw that in providing a farm with
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for the lumber of labourers to
"be employed on it you are giving facilities
▪to the tenant to cultivate him farm, sad
▪ increasing the value of the farm which you
• iet to a good tenant." This is often= sense.
Still there will always be, and it is for the advantage
ef employers that there should be, a considerable
quantity of what we take leave to call mobilised
labour. The men without who's aid the farmer
wield not get through August aro, perhaps, in Sep-
tember, at work at a grand-pit, and in October get-
ting Ironstone. Their work, w►atever its knit,
always lies on the land, from which, however, they
an excluded as residents, lest they should gain a
settlement and some day fall a burden upon the
pariah rani. This evil, directly traceable to the
=Wag Poor Law, will at be extirpated until that
law is modified by *stadia; the ant of its local
swede& _

Irbe eon.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 12.

Tbwe was no addition to the royal dinner party
ltbutoThe Censor; with the Primo et Wales, Primo
Asslses, ?viscous Alice, Prince= Helms, sal Primes
Lodes, 'hated on the toe In the Ileneoperk this iterstee.
The geadmusas in wattles wen Is setstelseee.
The Qom was meat, sitentimil by Ledy Modes&ld sad
the Hes. Kerala theydoed.

Tb. Due de Ni...,., with the Comte d'Eu and the Der
d'Alsopme, whited hee Itejesey.
The ereeeneeary royal boost, ..d pis alto went brad en
Friday end Saturday lam, and 'Okuda, and Twig in the
serteat week to the aged and moritueliens pea Is the warless
&Mena art paddler in and need Lersdan, si the Abereiry.
Moe, in Soodand-ysid, Widnehall, anihe the ads el the
Bishop et Oxford, Lod Mil Almoner, and all Pin. De.
Sub-Shnoser, by Joseph Hanby, Esq., floareterry sad
Yeoman at her blaleety's sloonzy in ordinary.

A deputation from the Peace Society, on the nabjact of our
present relations with Chins, bed so interview with Lord John
Russell at the Foreign-office yeetorday. The deputation
condetad of Dr. Hodgkin, Mr. William Janson, Mr. Robert
Cherleton (Bristol), Ray. Georg. Roes, Mr. Waltman Allea,
R. J. H. Wilson, Mr. John Jones, Mr. William Holmes,
Mr. Ravened Fry, Mr. Richard Barrett, Mr. W. E. Career
Rev. Henry Richards, Mr. Alexander Brockerty, Raw. De.
Berns, Mr. Joseph Cooper, and Mr. H. Black,

♦ deputation Lola tie Protestant Alliance, ocindepting ef
Mr. T. Chambers, Hon. Captain F. Maude, Col. Crawford,
sad Helier. D. Cooper (Bristol), Mr. Badenock (Edinburgh),
Colonel Levi., Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, Mr. J. Macgregor,
Mr. C. Bird, Rev. J. P. Battery, Mr. P. Cater (Beckenham),
Major Giberne. Rev. J. Brock, Dr. Bernard, Nov. A.
Townsend (Both), Mr. R. N. Fowler, sad Mr. J. Pariah,
had an inters iew with the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the
office of the Poor-law Based. Whitehall, yesterdsy.

Their Barame Iliglinsimas the Prices and Prinem
Edward of Our Wallow are staying at Goodwood on a vidt
to the Duke end Deem a Richmond.

The Dachas Hamilton arrived in Paris a few
days since Erma Oarmaay. The noble duke Is la Soothed.

The Duke of Newcastle and Lord Robert and Lady
lame Pelham Chutes ham left town for Clamber Park,
when hi. grace intends to romive mammy.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshiro hare
salved at itillaborough Castle, Camay Down, from a tear
of visite

The Marchioness of Sligo and the Ladies finowns
ass passing the warm at Westport House, Comity Mayo,
This Earl of Lincoln has left town for Paris.
Viecoant and Viscountess Barrington arrived at
Boohoo House a few days dada from a tour or visits.

Laid Itavenrcorth ie entertaining s select circle
at Ravemsworth Castle, Durban'.

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The Dake of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven-
dish I. Chatsworth •kw days wince to, Holbw Hall,
wea.a•nd, where they will pass the ChzW.w•s holiday,.
Hie Eseellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
vas to t 0,,, Kingstown yesterday noratar, by @pedal
akamer, at a quarter before raise o'clock, for Holyhead, *a
earls to Trentham. Staffordshire, w►ere be imposes epee&
les Clirishrs with Ilk noble ramie's, the Duke sad
Duthie, el tathrrimad.

The Stamford Mercury has authority to state that
Cloths &oily, Erg., of Eighingtoc, will be • eaadklet• tor
the rapssestatioa at Liman la parliazosat at tie rat asoural
aitotisa. It i. Matra last G. P. Hama" Isq., will aids
mask Ur names et the alsaims, but %at Mr. J. H. Parrs
probably sot win Gar lam mg

The I) do Nemours, the Prince de Joioville,
and the Des (numbs left Iddiabargh on Tuesday emeley
foe Leedom We understand (rays the Idle/tory* Quiet
that the object of their visit to this city was to leaped per-
oer principal educstionel institutions, with a view to
*mg temporarily at one of thaw mom of the jukw tim-
bres of Mee !elective families. This inepeolgen *Weeded
over enteral days, sad yr very fully end oszefel)y rented
eeit, bet we believe that no definite arrangements have yet
has. rids.

Mr Duke and I)acbeoa of Brabant gave a grand
siadoal .air* M Um Paleoe et Brtueele two entalage ago.
Plan am In mad of Invitation ewe Lamed. In addition
sea Eribbas of the royal bou.et.old, there wets present
NM at•iwwe sad amber. of the diplomatic body, a somber
of andion ad eration, the civil and military satbarhiss
M the cfty, ite.

Next Sunday is Christmas-day. " We should
systhe Time*, " est sot Mimosas Oilmen soon tiookrboly
sio bow thas shs iN oposilot " motion's" of do Pris-
ms Uri hod beso IN ad of wombs/sea pd,
skims/ to nom to sktir honk& If evor tins was • son
Ise sismoey, this Is am; t sear tkmo woo • one la
tokkli oborkry V soma paisy, thls Yeas; twee the..,..
• son be übeth mood policy sad jeatios en Isiarrinagosbh
WWI. this k oat."

INDIA.

Bombay journals of the 26th ult. have been re-
ceived this morning.
The Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief
left Cawnpore oa the morning of the 6th and arrived
at Fattehghtir on the 12th. They encamped at the
Luck peers Bagh and immediately held a station levee.
The &mbar was held next day, and was attended by
a large number of native chiefs. Lord Canning's
camp is expected to be at Delhi about Christmas.
The Owle Gazette has heard, with reference to
the grand durbar at Looknow, that " a list of the
' recusant talookdars and city nobles' has been pre-
pared, and that no less than sixty odd names are
enrolled upon it! Each of these worthies has been
called upon to account satisfactorily for his absence
from the viceroy's ditcher, after being summoned,
and some thirty-five or forty of them after having
obtained admission tickets from the secretary."
The Bombay Times is informed, " upon good an-
thority,:that the share to betaken by this presidency
in the expedition to China will consist in furnishing
two Queen's regiments to its strength in the coming
spring. A powerful force of artillery is to leave
England early in the year for Egypt; the transport
of which from Suez will be entrusted, we are told, to
the Indian navy. We believe that this artillery
force will consist of close upon 1,000 men." The
receipt of the despatches from the home
government regarding the enlistment of the dis-
charged soldiers for service in Chins wee fol-
lowed by a general order, in which the Governor-
General stated that he had "received authority
from her Majesty's government to grant the boon
of two years' service to those men of the local
army who had not taken their discharge under
the general order No. 883 of the 20th of
June last," and that his Excellency has also
received authority to permit " such men as have
taken their discharge, and are not compromised by
part taken in any act of insubordination connected
with the question of discharge, to enlist for service in
China in any of her Majesty's regiments of the line,
or her Majesty's artillery or marines, which may be
now in China, or proceeding thither; soldiers so en-
listing will receive a bounty of fifty rupees, upon the
condition that they enlist for ten years' service."
The Bombay Times has been told—

A very imporisat change is about to take place in the con-
stitatka of the executive comet of the Viceroy, which is
to be modelled somewhat after the fashion of her Majesty's
cableet. The members of council will become secretaries of
state, and, as each, resposalble for the conduct of all matters
in their several &preemie, The mom secretaries will
become abdomen:coteries we presume ; sad should this im-
portant change really trisect 's, we augur the happiest re-
sult* them/row The alasrares of the council board will no
loupe rustle a steadlag offence to grisvinoe-mongers ;
mad, walk !Waal reepoessitilltise devolving upon each
amber of the SOIROSIMIIat, we shall have the best guarantee
of ideal depertmental conduct. We are told that the new
ladies ablaut will stand as follows :

PILIBIDEIT LND 81CAZTA POlt POLITICAL AFFAIR/
—Lord Cassleg.
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Hon. Isituranr—Sh Bartle Free.
EIRCIMILIIT AT Walt—tlir JUDOS OIMPOOI.
MINUTIA or lIIIMICI—Right Hon. James WilBoo.
The power of ophdon will give India a good government
yet We me ideo sawed that the admission of nou-Ndelal
members to the Legielative Council has bac decided upon.
In Central India, it is feared that it will be neces-
sary to carry on the war in the jungle. A body of
rebels, under the notorious Bhagojee Naik, lately
found their way to a village about twelve miles from
Novick. About 100 of the Ahmednuggur and Mes-
sick police, led by Mr. Boater, went after them, and
succeeded in c►pturing the leader, who was hanged
on the spot when he killed Captain Henry a year
ego, and in killing another chief and 61 men. Minor
insurrections are going forward in other parts of
India. The hill tribes in the Dewitt are giving
some trouble, and a party of Rohillas have been
creating disturbance's near Hingolee. Troops were
sent after them, and they were surprised in a ravine
a few miles from the cantonment of Hingolee.
Fifteen of them were killed, including their leader,
the Itohilla Jemadar Shereef Khan. The Rohillss
have also advanced on some villages near Hydera.
bad, and we fear that their movements will not be
checked without considerable bloodshed.

Of the state of the rebel army in Nepanl the
rumours are perfectly contradictory—it is now said
that the Nana intends to maintain his position—
then that he intends to retreat. One report is
that he is dead, another that there was a con-
saltation in his camp, and that the several
leaders agreed to unite their forces and place
them under his orders. Side by side with these
reports ars details of the dispersion of the Nana's
followers in all directions, and the miserable
plight to which they are reduced for want of food
and clothing. " One thing is certain," says the
Bombay Gazette, "that our troops have taken the
field against the rebels ; the 64th Queen's have pro-
ceeded to the Goruckpow frontier, and one or two
engagements have already taken place, in which u
usual the rebels retired, betaking themselves to
jangles and oat-of-th•-way places. It is now stated
that Jung Bahadoor is going to assist us in expelling
' the rebels from his territories. About eight or ten
thousand Ooorkha troops with forty guns have
already marched down the hills, and Jung will join
the army at Bootwal. If this be the care, the dis_
comiiture of the rebels will be • quick and easy
work."

The following is a summary of the commercial
intelligence:
GOTWIRINT SECURITIES teal might after. Firm
have fallen to 88i, and Fire-end-a-HaU to 94i. Fours
remain at 75 per cent.
Elena:lo2.-4n ooaseq•enos of a better supply of China
drawn paper, the tendency Ms been gradually upward.
First-clam bills have sdriuseed to 2a. lid. to 25.1 3-16 d,
Documents are selling at 2.1. lid. to 2a. lid. per rupee.
FREIGHTS.—A slightly war feeling Ms prevailed, the
tonnage on the berth for Liverpool being large. From 16e.
to 17s. 61. is now generally taken, though • few engage-
mats are made at 20e. The list rate is current for London,
sod for Chins is. 10 to 11 may be quoted, the demand for
that quarter hernia somewhat fallen off.

The Bombay Oasette reports that the British
array in the presidency Is Is ea excellent state of health.
The latest ?stomata a ooesideratle diminution of himpltal
ewes. It is also utisfactory to find that the government Is
giving attention to the eatabliehmeat of barracks in the hill

restarts of Norther India. "The Girlies of our soldiers
have been long nocared for—have been left to straggle no_
assisted with the necessities of their position in this country.
We are now raising asylums fur them on elevated bill
stations, and establishing schools kw the education of their
ladder."

The Delhi Gazette nye that " the Ban Raja is
going to Wu Christian and marry the daughter clone of
the esoUon writen of the government secretariat. Tee
Nejah of Koopoorthtilla set the example by marrying a
young Chrietian lady, and it metes others are going to fol-
low it."

BITTEN BY A SNAKE.—We are sorry to learn
that Mr. D. Tamar of the P. sod O. Co.'. B,rvice, was
bitty. by a ornasnoss snake the other evening, at his reel-
dr•es, Cklnchpoogly. The unfortunate !Rothman, while
walking to the tompound of his home, trod co the snake,
which hit him to the roll of the leg. Imusdiately after-
wards Mr. Tamer hilt a dirsinava cowing over hum, and be
Waned. Fartunately • Mr. Davie, who is residing with
IWO, had the presence of wind to maks an incision, and to
soot the poison oat of the wound. We are glad to stet.
that Mr. Tamer Is yammering, slitioturh very slowly, his leg
laving swollen to maim:mows eve.—Boniey tlesitte.
All tee Belgian journals agree is stater g that
cold so fulmars at the pretest has not lam hit in that
country fur several years. Navigation on the canals barn
Mopped sveryalasts.

EXPRESS PROM PARIS.

(110 N OVA OWN

PARIS. TEVIIIDAT EVIIIIIIII.

The Emperor's new pamphlet—for it is mere
affectation to say that he is not the author or the
prompter of "Le Paps et le Cmigro.4"—wu not
published till four this afternoon. A crowd was
round Dentu's office all day, expecting to get it
sooner. The work will make a tremendous sensa-
tion, and will cause a great outcry from the church
Party.

A second hostile meeting took place yesterday, at
noon, between the Marquis de Galiffet and Count de
Laariston. As on the former occasion, the com-
batants fought with swords. Both being perfect
masters of their weapon, nearly half an hour
pawed over before either party could succeed in
wounding his adversary. At list, the count's
sword entered the marquis's hip, inflicting a wound
near the bone, bat not of any gravity. The monde
then interfered, declaring that honour was fully
' satisfied. The two opponents shook hands, and the
affair terminated.

The temperature in Paris has undergone, within
the space of lour-and-twenty hours, a most extra-
ordinary change, the frost having completely dis-
appeared, and a thaw of almost unexampled rapi-
dity having made an immense progress.
M. de Lenardidre, member of the Legislative
Body for the Dent-Sivres, has just died suddenly
in Paris. He bad passed part of the day at his
club, playing backgammon with Marshal Baragnay
d'Hilliers, and when the hour for dinner arrived he
expressed a wish to dine there. Having been in-
formed that the number of places reserved were
filled ap, he went to a restaurant is the neighbour-
hood, and had just taken his seat when he fell from
his chair and expired.
The fourth and last concert of Sivori went off
last night with much applause. The violinist quits
us in a few days for London, where he gives a oon-
osrt at the commencement of the ensuing month.
He afterwards proceeds on a professional tour, dar-
ing which he intends to visit the principal towns of
Ragland, Scotland, and Ireland.