The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-26 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have received the following telegram :

. _
" NARBFJLLER, SATURDAY Mortanro.
"The Vedic, with the above mile, arrived at limousines
at 8 ii.nr. this day.

"The mails leiore for London at 10 a.m.

"The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the mails, was to
Lave Malta on the morning of the 24th, and may none.
quently be expected at Southampton about the 2nd or 3rd
of June.

"The Colombo arrived at Sues on the 18th with 120 first
elan and 104 other paneogers.

"OUTWARD MAILS.

" The Indus, from Southampton, the 12th, and
the Valetta, from Marseilles, the 90th, reached Malta oa
the 22nd, sod continued their voyage to Alexandria the
lame evening.

" 7'he Caad* with the London roads of 4th-10th of
April, arrived at Mlle oa the 6th of May

TNDLA AND CHINA.
CANTON, Arun. 14 (vu. Taizerr).
The Chinese reply to the ultimatum has been
received ; it is rumoured to be unsatisfactory.
The rebels in the provinces oontinue to be suc-
cessful ; the silk villages are threatened.

SHANGHAI, Aran, 7 (via TarrxrE).
Hangchow has been retaken from the rebels. The
silk districts are still in a disturbed state.
CALCUTTA, Aram T 1 (vu Tamar).
Ryot disturbances continue to take place.
(ammes rEassams.).__

POINT DE OALLF., MAT I.
Cholera is prevalent throughout India.
THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

SOUTHAMPTON. ParDAY.
The North German Lloyd's steamer New York,
Captain van &akar, with deice from New York to the 12th
instant, has arrived.

She brings 280,470 dollars for France, 20,000 dollars for
Hamburg, 1,250 for Bremen, but no specie for Englund ;
passengers in all, of which 29 are for Southampton, the
remainder for France, Hamburg, and Bremen.
She spoke the Fulton a few hours' sail from New York.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(rim ova mint coinsponmer.)

PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.

I don't delight in playing the part of an alarmist,
but I will never take upon myself the responsibility
of suppressing the truth from the fear of being
taken for one. It is within my knowledge that one
of the Emperor's most intimate councillors lately
said, in the hearing of several people, these words :
"We are on the point of twisting the neck of
England on the Oriental question !" What this
very stretched metaphor may mean exactly I do
not pretend to say. But this Ido well remember
that, so long ago as the peace of Villafranca, which
the English press denounced with a severity entirely
justified by the now recognised event of its utter
failure, the unavowed organs of the French govern-
ment were continually hinting that revenge would
be taken on England in the East. This idea has
lately been ventilated with a renewed impetus.
Everybody expects that the text of M. de Lava-
lette's speech to the Sultan, which must come out
within a few hours, will be alarming, and
will disclose a policy concerted with Russia
such as England cannot, in all likelihood, approve
of. lam far from saying that a castes beUi is likely
to arise. On the contrary, I think that every
move of the imperial policy with regard to Eng-
land is nicely calculated with a view not to over-
step the bounds of her patience. To thwart, to
check, and if possible to humiliate England, but at
the same time to presume upon our undoubted
love of peace, and our especial desire to be friendly
with the French nation, and to bring every ques-
tion to this issue :—ls it worth your while to make
war about it t—such are the tactics which have been
going on for years, and will continue to go on, so
that the onus of declaring war, if ever such an ex-
tremity should arise, may always be thrown upon
us. At the present moment, I have good reason to
believe that Russia and France are agreed about
certain schemes in the East, to an extent
little dreamt of by many politicians. My
informants go so far as to say, but of course I
cannot repeat such serious news without reserve,
that France and Russia have made up their minds
to a partition of Turkey ; that they mean to offer
England a share, and that if she refuses what is
offered upon their terms, they will, in the French
phrase, passer mare, i.e., go on in their own way
without her. I may possibly have fallen to-day
upon an exaggerated vein of information, but I
make no doubt that in one form or other the "East-
ern question" will very speedily eclipse the Italian
one.

I hear that the new pamphlet on Hungary, ex-
tracts of which have been published in London, was
purchased by the government for 10,000 fr., and
that it is considered expedient to suspend the pub-
lication for the moment.

General Bazaine's division is to make a triumphal
entry into Paris on its return from Italy on June
L One of the regiments, the 33rd, arrived at
Charenton from Toulon this morning. These
troops will march along the Boulevards, and defile
before the Emperor on the Place Vendome. The
spectacle will be on a small scale, a repetition of the
grand military display of last summer.
There is a remarkable absence of anything like
authentic news from Sicily. lam told that the
government has heard nothing within the last
twenty-four hours. The probability is that Gari-
baldi is in some part of Palermo, but that the
royal troops hold out in the citadel, debating
whether they shall make a sally upon a hostile
population, or embark for Naples.

- The fluctuation at the Bourse was considerable.
The Rente, after opening with a rise at 69fr. 55c.,
fell to 69fr. 20c. for cash and 69fr. 10c. for aooount,
with a fall of 20c. and 30c. Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c.
The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 75c., and Eastern
2fr. 50c. The other lines were lfr. 25c. higher.

At Montpellier, a few days ago, at a banquet
given on the oceasion of an agricultural show, M. Michel
Chevalier delivered an address on the subject of the commer-
cial treaty between France and England, in the course of
which he said :—" In France, as was the case in England in
1824, the government abstains with good faith from speak-
ing of free trade. It contents itself with removing prohi.
bilious, aa the English then did, and as they did also, sub-
etitntes • duty which is 30 per cent. ►t the maximum.
Let events follow their cowls ; experience, u I believe,
will infallibly and very soon pronounce in favour of a more
sweeping reform, and one day, by the force of things, free
trade will be proclaimed amidst the applause of the whole
public, as was the came in Greet Britain."
A letter from Beyrout of the 4th says :—" In
the plains about Beyrout, every man, woman, and child is
engaged with the silk worms. To-morrow or next day the
worm' begin to spin, and if the hot winds hold off • few
days longer there will be a very excellent crop—far above
the average. Prices, too, are good, contracts having been
made at 50 percent. higher prices than those at the opening
of last Damon. There has been a very good stimulus given
to the silk reeler' in Syria, no fewer than ten new reeling
factories being set on foot this year in Lebanon and the
plains. As • matter of course all this brings • great deal of
money
into the country, •md will o•use • large increase in
our exports from England and elsewhere. The change of
reeling to the French instead of the Arab manner, which is
being made all o►er the province, will increase the value of
the silk crop by 30 per cent., and go where one will young
mulberries are being everywhere planted. I have just re-
turned from • week's tour in Lebanon, and the peasants are
all busy with their silk worms."

Tun Wivi's Rive:Nos.—lt may be in the memory
ot our readers that 'murder was committed in Pens about
eight months ago by • Bulgarian and a Greek, whose victim
was also • Greek. Fortunately in this instance the guilty
parties fell into the hands of justice, and, after a tedious
judicial process at the Zaptish, they were, about a mouth
ago, Rally condemned and sentenced to death—unless (as
mwerulman law permits) the relatives of the murdered
man consented to accept " blood money," in which case
the punishment would be commuted for ten years in
the bagnio. In this case the widow of the victim is
inexorable, and refuses to listen to any pecuniary compro-
mise that can be offered, insisting on nothing short of the
lives of her of her husband's murderers. On Saturday last,
the leading members of the Greek community met in Pere,
arid called the woman before them, but after nearly two
hours of expostulation, entreaty, threat, and ever; other
form of influence that could be employed to shalt., her
resolution, she remained firm in her purpose. When told
that owing to the difficulty of finding an executioner the
sentence could not be carried out, and that she might
as well therefore make • virtue of necessity sod consent
to forego her right, she answered with an energy that
would be heroic if it were not savage—" Not find an exe-
cutioner ! I myself will slay them, if no other avenger
can be found." Priestly coercion, peninurion, money, and
everything else, failed to move her, and the executions
will therefore take plans.—Cereal Herald, May 16.

SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN'S AND MARINERS
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

The twenty-first annual meeting of this widely
beneficial association was held yesterday at Willis s Rooms,
under the chairmanship of his Grace the Duke of
aostouots, President of the Society. There were present;
Admirals the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Sir Georges
Seymour, F. Bullock, and B. C. Cam; Captains the Hon.
F. Maude, R.N., C. R. Egerton, R.N., M. Petro, R.N.,
Hawes, R.N., Saliva's, R.N., Westbrook, R.N., Wood.
roff, R.N., Keogh, R.N. and Bloomfield, R.N. ; Major
Moors ;C. and S. Gies, ke., R.N. J. T. Foster, Esq.,
R.N., J. T. Cornish, Esq., R.N., Arthur Ellis, Esq., R.N.,
G. Brograve, Esq., Colonels Nolloth and Gordon, William
Stuart, Esq. ; Revs. T. Ray, R. Berries, J. B. Owen,
and J. R. Starry ; O'Byrne, J. Viney, (inky, Long, Perrott,
8.. Lewis, A. Botefeur, Erg., &c.
The Rev. Mr. Srsazy opened the proceeding with prayer;
and letters were then read from Lord Henry Chohnondeley
and Montague Gore, Esq., apologising fur unavoidable
absence.

The CHAIRMAN said it must not be supposed that the
numbers in attendance at the annual meeturgs afforded an
indication of the interest taken in the society. The sub-
scribers numbered upwards of 60,000, of whom 46,000 were
seamen ; and their revenue, which in 1145 was but 2,0001,
had increased to 13,0001. The objects were carried out
almost wholly by voluntary efforts. The two bene-
volent societies which provided respectively for sue.
couring the immediate distress of shipwrecked persons, and
for affording preventive aid in the form of lifeboats,
received aid from government. This society stepped
in when continued help was wanted. Those who had been
rescued from the horrors of shipwreck were relieved in
their destitution, and if necessaryclotheuL These acts of
mercy were extended to foreigners as well as nor own
countrymen. Medals were given by the society for saving
life. There was not the same objection in the case of a
medal which could be urged against money rewards. A
medal was a mark of some distinguished action, and was a
poss~ron to be handed down from generation to generation.
The coasting trade of this country was one of its most vital
conditions, and an institution which aided in the welfare of
that trade deserved the highest consideration at the hands
of the country.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that during
the last year, by means of 500 agents spread over the Coast
of the United Kingdom, in conjunction with the central
office in London, 6,792 shipwrecked persons had been re-
lieved ; and 3,562 widows, orphans, and aged parents of
mariners had received benefits, making in all a total of
10,354 persons who had experienced the help of the society.
The income was 13,ray. ; but an excess of expenditure to
the amount of 2,5101. 10e. bil. had been aimed by the great
demand' arising from severe distress among the ,shipping.
It was stated that the committee intended to go on with
their scheme for establishing a pension fund and a hospital
for worn-out merchant seamen, supported by their own pay-
ments and any aid that the public might supply.
Admiral Sir Groans SEYMOUR briefly moved the adoption
of the report, and expressed a warm interest in the objects
of the society.
The Earl of ..QHREWNBURY and TALI3OT seconded the
motion. lie recollected being present at the inauguration
of the society twenty-one years ago. It was, he then
thought, a crying evil that such an institution had not been
founded before. It was difficult to say whether this or the
National Lifeboat Association conferred most blessings on
this maritime country, or had greater claims to public gra-
titude and support. He was very desirous to see the plan
of a hospital and pension fund, in connexion with this
society, carried out. They haul a noble inatitution--Green-
wich Hospital—for the royal navy, but none for the class
from which the navy was made.
The motion was put and carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. OWEN spoke on the question of the pro-
posed hospital, and moved a resolution expressive of the
coecarrence of the meeting in the views of the committee.
The greatness of this natiou was a naval greatness. The
mercantile marine was a recruiting yard for the royal
navy ; andj it might be considered that the distance from
which the Londouers had to send for coals to cook their
dinners and to cheer their hearths was one great cause of
our supremacy on the seas.
The Hon. Captain MAI;DE seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. BstNEs and other speakers addressed the
meeting, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of
thanks to the chairman, who acknowledged the compliment
in a speech in which he eloquently summed up the pre-
ceding arguments in support of tins aims with which the
meeting had come together.
Contributions, including a legacy of 2,0001., were an•
trounced by the secretary.

The Levant Herald,of May 18,says :—"M. Colas,
a leading shipbuilder at Bordeaux, arrived from Marseilles
on Saturday, charged with a mission from a French corn.
pony who intend applying to the Sublime Porte for a con.
cession of the whole lighthouses sernm of the Ottoman
Empire, with a monopoly to the company of the light dues,
the erection of lighthouses, and the carrying out of the
whole system. It is but little probable the government
accede to so extraordinary an application."

SPECIAL TRAINS TOR PRIZEIPIOBTB.—SOMe cor-
respondence has been printed which took place last year
between the government and the South-Eastern Railway
Company, from which it appears that the directors, in •
letter to the Home-otlice, written in consequence of an ex-
tract from the quarterly report of the chief constable of
Kent having been forwarded to them, assured the govern-
ment that the train arrangements which had been com-
plained of were made without their knowledge or authority,
and that they bad taken steps to prevent any facilities
being granted in future to enable people to attend a prize-
fight. Six months later in the year, a magistrate repre-
sented that there had been a special train to Etchingham
for another prim-fight (between Sayers and Rrettle), and
when the police on the spot applied at the Etchingham sta-
tion to telegraph to other police stations in order to collect
their force, they were told that the telegraph would be
occupied for some home. The directors replied that the
applications for tickets for the ordinary train on that morn-
ing were so numerous that it was necessary to divide the
train into two portions, seramting into a distinct or
special train those who hail taken tickets for Etchingham,
but that the company must carry by their regular trains all
who presented themselves ; and that, as to the telegraph.,
the reply given at Etchingham was, that the instrument at
the time was in use between two other stations, and as soon
as it was at liberty there were :i7 messages waiting to be
sent off before the police inesslg,e could go. Here the cor-
respondence ends. •
THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—The new belie are to be
presented to Sayers and Heenan, at CiaMoll26-gardeDa. on
Wednesday. On the day after the men will proceed to
Manchester, where they have engaged the Free Trade
Hall, for their exhibition on that evening, and on Friday
they will appear at Liverpool. After they have completed
their tour in the proeumes they will go together to the
United States.

GOSSIP AWENT THE DZIIHY.—BeIrs Life Says
" The pace was very bad for the first half-mile, when it
improved, and the time was four seconds fester than last
year, which, though not first-rate, told hotels so effectually
that not • single horse this year galloped into the paddock
to pull up. Mr. Ten Broeck stood a ' screamer' on
Umpire, but lost by every other horse in the race ext
Horror. Mr. Merry, who hacks his horses very heavily
when In gorses!, is reported to win between seventy aad
eighty thousand pounds ; and his present triumph—the
object of his ambition—will atone for the disappointments
occasioned by the unacoiuntable defeat of Hobble Noble
(for whom he gave the late Lord John Scott the unproar-
dented sum of 6,500 wines when a 2-yr-old) in Daniel
O'Rourke 's year, and of Lord of the Isles more recently.
After Mr. Merry, the chief winners on the race are Mr.
Payne, Colonel Ouseley Higgins (who executed a portion of
the stable commission), Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. Graham
Smith, the latter of whom ' throws in' for ten thousand.
There are few cleverer light weights than Cuatance, who
hes fully warranted the confidante reposed in him by both
owner and trainer on thus occasion, and to carry off the
Derby at his age (19). is a feat that no other jockey has ever
accomplished. It was a slim of luck, likewise, for John
Sharp to tumble into such a ' good thing' after his long
and harassing journey. Nuthourne broke down in the
near foreleg, in the foot of which he ices pricked a fort-
night before the race, and way going so well at
the time that a general opinion prevails that he would
have won—what they say of all hones who meet with
• similar fate. The ' settling' promises to be a most
satisfactory one, notwithstanding the large sums that will
be required to meet Mr. Merry's and other claims, as the
winner, who was one of the earliest 'fancies' of the public,
is generally considered a harmless hone fur the Ring."
The Illustrated London News says that Thonnanby twice
over jeopardised his chance by stumbling; but. his little
jockey, who carried some =ix. of saddle and saddle.
cloths, and never rode in a Derby before, recovered hint
very cleverly. It is said that Heeunn stand to wiu 1,1001.
upon Umpire ; but, like Mr. Ten Broeck,he did nut come to
see him in the paddock. Toni Sayers was also in the
stand, and, having now determined to cultivate the arts of
peace, he has male a good beginning by joining a volunteee
rifle corps.
A Fautt ONE. —The followingiflatance of fenti-
nine deceit is causing a good deal of gossip in Cambndge
we forbear, however, to mention names. Mr. —, a
tradesman of Cambridge, was betrothed to a young lady,
Miss S., of F—, • neighbouring village, and Tuesday
week was the appointed "happy day." The cake was sent
home, the furniture all supplied, the guests invited, the
clergyman "spoken to," the dies for the bridal party hired,
and the gentleman had sent two rings to the fair one for
selection. Two days prior to the Tuesday, however, he
received a letter from his lady love, stating that the
marriage must be deferred for a few days, under circum-
stances which she would explain. On the following Wed-
' neaday (the day after that fixed for the gnat event) the
bridegroom expectant received the following note :
"London, May.—Mrs. M. (late WAS 5.,) pre.entw her com-
plimenta to Mr. 8., and begs to inform him that she was
married this morning (Tuesday) in Loudon. All presents
will be duly returned ." This precious specimen of female
delicacy finished with " Your's faithfully,' kr. It appears
that the bride had been engaged for five years ; and the
jilt had really been trifling with the nffeetions of a young,
confiding, and worthy man. To add to the heartlessness
of the affair, the husband brought to Cambridge one of
'the rings sent to have it changed for one a little smaller.-...
Cambridge Independent.