The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-29 00:00:00

'G, DECEMSER 29, 18b8.

TEST INT ELLIGE
Tux lONIAN ISLANDS.

An Attache of the Britiah Banbany at Vienna ar-
rived at Corfu, on the 18th, bearing despatches for
Mr. Gladstone and the Lord High Commissioner.
The following appeared the NMI evening in the
c that Gasetia of Corfu :

Pekoe, Corfu, D.& 18, 1868.
Ingharee,—l love the honour be treemait to your bigh-
orn, it your ialbnerelou rod dot d the Kest itreelleut
the Beaste, the otoompayiss embed of e tlespeeth which
I hew remind ham hr Maisitfo leash,' at State for
the Coheetel Depreluomt, b seemmer to the Wrest and
protest, heireoled to Yr by the km reyeseadoilme for
Cork surd the in mosicdpal elkere of this Wend.—l have
the basses to to, Ingham., your most obedient bumble
esrmat, Joint Yoram.

Rio Higtoor Sir A. Diariddr o, G.C.N.0.,
Proidoof of Ur eario, &O.
EXTRACT OF • DINPATCIII ADDAMS:OD TO Till LORD
HIM( CONNIIIIIONITL, 1T Till SIKRITAT or STATi
101 TNI COLONIAL DIFAWINIIINT, DAVID Tlli BTR OP
_DICIOIIIII3. IsBB, No. U.

I have eirinowiedge war timpsiehos of the 25th and
Mit al Novelabar, =Waft reoppoilvely ea address from
the tea orprineatatives of the leland of Carta, and a protest
from the enadolpality of Cork on the sabjeot of your con-
adantial despatch to Mr. Lebow:there, of the 10th of tune,
1857, which obtained pahlication in the newspapers without,
aa you are already aware, the sanction or privily of the
government. _ _

-
The teem of theme two documents Is the it.., end then-
fore, I shell wane my observations to s Aegis saner.

You will Inform the reprommtatives of Cain and t►e
mcuskipallty of that Island that I have received with regret
the addresses which they hem sent to tae through you.
Her Majesty's goverment do not entertalu to. desire, se
Indeed they do not poems the power, to .soapy Cain and
Pito se oolonles under the British Grown. Nor dose It
enter into the views of her Majesty's goverment to &ppml
to the powers of Europe for en abrogation of the treaty
under which England bee hitherto Wiwi, sod will at-
tend, to the lonian Islands a probation whisk Id requind
for the internists of Europa, and which is tar most ellieHme
than any that said be afforded by the sovereignty el Omen.
There is, Indeed, no ham& motes Bee from bowler
don, and adder every form of goventment grieving's
requiring redress may aria. If any each grievances now
inlet to impede the erniefacitory working of the lonian Oda•
cattalos, they need but to be temper►tsly stated, and
rationally privet, to IMMO en the part of her Majesty's
government their beet Minis within the droll of their cm-
atlintimai powers to lad a remedy or a solution for limo.

In the sissies of Mr. filaristeim le the lonian Wasik
than maw am opportunity from which I tram the lonian'
val not after thsemelves to be diverted by visionary sad
Imprectieshie whom.

It Is est witlde Mr. Giellebee's power to ormother the
ahrogatka of the Treaty of 1816, or the awake of the
lonian Lbw& to say thee to amp& Her liejtety's go-
vermeil oseeet laved Met** sego powwow air woeld
they if they owl. Bat 111. white Ids powers to inglina
blamed of existing letperhodoes owl ask ream, sad to
recoaismad wo► resesares of improvises'. as Nay reader
the practical worlds( of the testae elostlitetlos mere hat-
=aims with the oatmeal results of sellieveranset.

With se cordial a dire for the welfare of the lathe
Islands se say einem of their own ea lona, I meld en-
treat the teals= to exueise 'dada, eirtnneetrnes with
the Woman judgement which below to prankst politic a,
to co-optssbe with her Majesty'. goverment In the gabs-
'oar to tarn tide favourable opportunity to good account,
and to nano free the Ptutectoraus, which Greet Benda le
hotted to preen.. %violate, those dooming.. uritkit she is
ads sad willing to exteud.—l hen the honour to be, dr,
your wet obadieut humble earvist,

B. B. LTTroN.

To the Lord High Oomodeoleasr,
SO Join Young, Ban., dm.

UNITED STATES.

(IT 11.110N/M0 TMLNSIIII,I4
MON 001 OWN 0011111PONDZS

The steamer North Briton, from Portland, 18th
inst., has arrived. She brings the Canadian mail,
111 passengers. and Boston journals of the 18th
and New York of the 17th. with telegraphic advice'
from the latter port to the evening of the same day,
las already announced via Halifax.
Satisfactory explanations had been received at
Washington relative to the recent trouble with the
steamer Washington at Nicaragua, and a number
of documents on the subject had been communicated
to Congress.
It was expected that the Secretary of the Trea-
sury would issue the proposals in a few days for
the remaining ten millions of the twenty millions
loan authorised by the lest Congress.
The Senate, by a majority of one, had refined to
take up the resolution in favour of the abrogation
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
In the Home notice had been given of a bill to
modify the tariff, and impose specific duty on iron
and other @Mielea to which that principle can be ap-
plied. A resolution had, also been introdaced with
• view to obtain a modification or redaction of the
duty on American tobacco by foreign governments.
The steamer Washington was about to sail for
Nioaragm, with Californian passengers.
A telegram mys that assurances had been received
by the President from the representatives of foreign
powers that there is neither intention nor wish on
the part of their respective governments to interfere
with the policy of the administration, in relation to
Mexico end Central America.

Letters from Havannah of the 10th inst. state
'that thousands of revolutionary placards were in
active circulation amongst the people, and that •
NM, watch was kept over the movements of
streagors at New York on the 17th.
Keeley market was unshanged. Exchanges with-
out alteration. Stooks dull and &Wising. New
York, 83) ;', Illinois Central, 83; Central, 69; Erie,
171; Michigan Central, 49. Cotton firmer. Mid-
dling uplands, 121. Flour and wheatetesdy. Cora
dull sad heavy. Beef steady. Peek sad bard firmer-
Segos buoyant. Coffee active and firm. Iron
quiet; &cash pig, 28 dole. Spirits of turpentine
firm, at 49e. Tobacco heavy. Freights quiet.
Cotton takes for Liverpool at 31.18 d. New Orleans
optima markets dull oa the 17th, at 111 to 1 fur
middling.

THE CAPE.

PLYKOIIII4 TVISDAT.
The Norman etsanship arrived bete this evening ;
she left Table Bay, Nov. 20th; St. Helena, 29th;
Amend" Doc 4th.

The seamy was prover/um and than we' a pros-
pect of an abundant harvest. The redaction of the
military forte mesas easedsms. Small-pcx had
proved fatal la 1,600 oases.
Intelligens, has Lees repaired from Dr. Living-
stone to the 4th Oet. The expedition' had reeekted
Lougee. River, and was tolerably healthy.
The Malabar was wreaked ia Table Bay oa
November 6. The Bossiawen and Lye.: were
in Simons Bay. The Hermes wee to be sent in
esereh Persist

NJURESB FROM FARM

(7103 0133 OWN

PARIS, TITSIDAY Emma.
I think it highly probable that the Paris Con-
ference will shortly be convoked, not on account of
the Danube navigation (for that is a question which
the majority of the Powers refuse to re-open) but
on account of the affairs of Bervia.

The confirmation of M. de
don, announced in the dfoaiterr, does not assume
the form of an "amnesty," which alone—as all the
lawyers are agreed—can, as distinguished from a
mere pardon, do away with all the collateral conse-
quences of a sentence. The defendant, therefore,
in spite of what M. Chaix d'Eat Ange
thought fit to say, remains in point of
theory in a different state from that of a man who
had never been condemned. He would be regarded,
is a recidivists in cue of a second offence ; sad
soma people pretend, but I think they are wrong,
that he is deprived of his vote at an election. How-
ever, the Court of Appeal his relieved him from the
only really serious consequent), of the decision of the
police court. He is no longer a suspect under the
law of public safety; and I have reason to believe
that the main object of the prosecution was to hook
r him into that category. The pardon will now, of
worse, have effect, but without placing M. de
Montalembert under any obligation. The
time for lodging a pourvoi, to have the
judgment revised in the Court of 01111111-
%Wl], his expired. The pardon is thereface now
legal and regular, which it was not before. All that
was said about M. de Montalembert being a "

'm pa.

termined martyr" was rank nonsense. He will
make no ridiculous clamour to be taken to prison ;
be does not now " accept" the pardon, which
he wonld have doss bad he refrained from ap-
pealing ; he simply remains quiescent. The pardon
of M. Douniol, the responsible editor of the Correa-
pendant, which is only now announced, must strike
every one as a pure matter of coarse. Bat he has
already paid his floe of 1,000 fr., and there is no
doubt whatever that in point of law the pardon
does not compel the state to return the money to
him ; whether, in fact, he will get it back or not is a
curious question.
The Emperor, while in the pardoning vein, has
relieved M. Pierson, the editor of a Lorraine journal
called the Revue de la Maw, from a sentence of one
month's imprisonment and from 400 fr. out of a tine
of MM. which was imposed upon him. There is
something grotesque in an imperial pardon leaving
subsisting a fringe of a sentence, a mere shred of a
tine--a sum of 41.

The Univers proclaims its triumph over Abbe De-
lacouture, the only French priest who publicly pro-
tested against the infamy of the Mortara ouse, in the
following terms :

If we are well informed the Abbe Debenture hos ro-
oked a warning from the seolodestical authorities ea the
suited of the letters which be has published cc the Martini
odsir, aad more particularly Motive toe parephist whisk be
hoe jest brought out on the slums subject.

The ramcours which excited uneasiness at the
Bourse yesterday were thought little of today.
The Rente was tolerably firm, but did not realise any
advance on yesterday's quotations ; it eloped at
73fr. and 73fr. 6c. Mobilier rose lift. 260. Most
of the railways were about 2fr. 600. higher. It
was announced that the shares of the North of
Spain Railway Company would be issued to-morrow
on the Paris market.

ELBC77ON.

At Brecon yesterday, Major G. C. Morgan, son of
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., of Trainor Park, wee returned
without opposition for the county, in the place of the late Sir
John Bailey, Bart.

The Dm: and gallant mambas tau migrated by ail
father, being unable to attand blamed from Gran Wilk
The pliant major, who distinguished himself in ths;ernek7
chara at Haddam, t• a moderate easservatise.

BOUTH-IVBSTEEN AND BIIGHIVN AND BOUM
COAST 0011.PAN118.

We regret to learnlo a very serious dispute hes •
arias between two of sir ndMir wlllt
same decked to the settint, will in rail
ell Igo r
=lra inuinvWMMß eenges:i re;4= ,wih
tissi
sal Ml► Cow
Ousgeglee, gehenedlg Mee d the bed
masepg" ages els kingdees, est UM new
with • iris~ d asieable forborne*, Iswerileamila
other white its elbeiled • tavoisrable siren le Mat
of a/most all eihr nereelne Minya. It we le N.
membered thet belh. Maio Mee MR tub de
garrlsea lowa of Parinesendi Ms meth
posenriag OM the bet Ism
miles of the Bright= =eeriest Railway, ham
Mavaat to Petsmenthi, grate that owlet le the
thath-Westen_Ostepent left tionod ea useeneue
with the dean Polditenintineunimr In pewee d seareter
woe, the Intina Seta Mein Omens on
a, lien ee in* aeibberie, saji=
sotto, we, On lersanthMeatera dinners few%
ohm del their Wag weal be prevented to
railway tram Reset to Pallometh after the 'frith's",
The nein wu weieneet by the Beenh-Weetere Orr
pent as mei fonael, sat heloadod to Wee the bed
neellea of inlet etewilheelir Mr. &St, the nomeel
=of Wok test does to Foreliain,...zeteel
esissresed to take • pilot
• fies earrispe, over the disputed pa7at ."2
the
mffisty. On snide ig the Havant junotion, jut below .
Ceram, Mr. Brett jewel a locomotive engine,
to the Brighton and &nth Cost Company, standings
the creassug, with the evident intention of preventing fun
=g any faiths in the direction of Portioned.
cony had weed at Its confederates present. ng
Brighton and Booth Coast party, with • view further h ob.
strain their opponents, had torn op a small portion of Ugh
rells on the main Portsmouth down line, which the Booth-
Western adherente, who ware very early on the grimed,
carefully releid. The contest was a drawn battle for lea,
time, and until one of the Borth-Western oaken.
observing the Brighter locomotive to be usgewilei,
suddenly jumped tips it, sad potting on the stem%
ran • few yards knead, thus allowing the Booth-
Western train to get on to the main Portsmouth line.
The Brighton and Booth Coast party were, however, too
quick for their opponents, and before the Boutli-West
train could get bar aped oa, they had eneoteded in ante
displacing several of the down mile—rendering it impossible
foe say train to go forward. It was now 11 o'clock, and the
Routh-Weetern train stood directly upon the crreeing, block-
ing up both roads, and obstructing the whole of the Brighton
sad South Coast traffic. Mr. Bost held this position is
nearly a couple of boors, bet at length finding that he could
not get forward to Portemonth without using more videos
than would be justified, be retreated In good order, end left
his opponents in undisturbed possession of the road, which
wee speedily rebid, and the trains of the Brighton sad Bon&
Cost Cowpony pared on without further interreptioa be
Portsmouth.
For the present the Booth- Western Company an rise
prevented booking pump* to what has hitherto bees ow
Mend one of their termini, but it is hoped that in a few ders
the existing difficulties will be latietactonly arranged.
both parties continue asthma the probability is that Oa
Board of Teas will be celled upon to interfere, in which are
the public will probably be thepiners.