The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-26 00:00:00

TABLE TALK IN ST. PETERSBURG.

A letter from St. Petersburg of Nor. 15, published
by the Haves Correspondence, whist' never wittingly siz-
eableness, news ditagreesble to the Fsench government,
N) e:

" Ina report addressed to the military chummy by
Primes Bariatsinski, thacommande vin-chief of the provinces
of the Caucasus, most favourable accounts sre given of the

fortified towel Ood

e the west of the Cu.

plan See. Inseam quantities of military stores of all
kinds have been, daring the last few months, sent from As
trakan to Derbend by the Volga, and this immense materiel
may be tuned to account, when t;me shall serve, by the
carp* d'arusie, which, as it is thought, is destined to suc-
cour the Shah of Penis, our ally, in the probable cue
of hie territory being invaded by an English expedition-
ary nay. Eania, whatever may happen, will not be
taken by surprise in those distant conetriss. It is known
that l 3 1 Charley,* oats of the moat intrepid defenders
of Sebastopol, has been appointed by the Emperor com-
mander of the carps d'arente echeloned between Saks sad
Ennui, is the immediate neighbourhood of the Persian
frontier. Many people at St. Petersburg think that this Sery
general, with all his forces, may very likely get to Herat be
fore the Eighth, who ere expected to disembark at Bashir,
shall be in line of battle. The opinion gains ground in
tailitasy circles that if the English government should really
carry its plan into execution, events will compel as to inter-
fere with all the power which, thanks to the activity of our
g la, we can dispose of in Asia.
However, it will be scarcely possible for us to p
the English from effecting a leading upon the two principal
islands of the Persian Gulf, son from instilling themselves
in the town of Bashir. They will annex them to their pea-
melons in India, in the came manner end under the same
pretexts as they did in the case of Aden, in the Red Sea."

• Mb wane is otberwise written Ihrouleff.

THE WE4THER.-(THIS DAT)

The weather in the metropolis has, daring the last I
twenty-four hours, undergone eztracrdinary changes.
YiWterday morning the air wee comparatively mild, bet
became by the evening piereiogly cold, the wind being due
north. During the night there was a be .p fall cf snow,
ocoompeatied with frost, and at daybreak the streets and
housetops, for the Best time this season, showed a
white coating. Very early in the morning, however,
thaw set in, rein fell, and the temperature rose. But
before awe a thick yellow fog settled down upon the
City, sad this combination of disagreeable, rendered out.,
door locomotion eztramely inconvenient and unp'euant.

Streets sad pavements wan sloppy, tad vanities and poder
trials/ baspattand with mad..

From the non-arrival of the Continental mails, we eon
clad, that a 'sow storm, has also been experienced in the
Channel.

There is at Milan a gigantic statue in stone, called
sew &padre (men of 'tone), which fulfils the same office
there is Pesqulno at Rome. The other night a piece of
►read, with a piece of paper attached to it, wee found stuck
in the mouth of the " man of atone," end on t►e paper was
written, is Wieser* dialect, a couplet ezpressiog the fo:-
lowisg mailman :—" The man of stole will eat this breed
when the Emperor of Atari& shall reign over the hearts
of the Lombards." The simple suspicion of howler( been
the author of this pasquinade wee sufficient to came an un-
fortunate was to be thrown into geoL

THE RED SEA.—" The navigation of the Red Sea
is not so difficult u has isra repreeented," says the Morti-
mer do Is Flotte. Oa its toasts are two lines cf reef,
wbieh leave between them and the land a wane deep
eutough for vessels of small Wastage; and this passage, being
oat of the reach of high waves, is preferred by small
vessels, though the latter ars wider the necessity of costing
seethe every evening es is rivers. It is also suitable for
mall steamers. The lithe steamers take the great channel
in the middle of the sea, 60 miles wide 750 tong, and which
is nuked by reeks throughout its length, bet the position
of the t. correctly laid down in charts. Is the Red Sea
are member of ports, island., and anchoring plans, in .1
whit* vessels can obtain shelter. The winds which gene-
rally prevail from the Isthau of Sues to about 200 miles
within Babel-Mandel are those of the north-west; bat
west winds prevail from June to Atigast."
THE LATE JOHN ARTHUR HERBERT.—English
art baa recently sustained a severe loss in the death of Mr.
John Arthur Herbert, sue of the Royal Academician, which
took place at Mouriat, is Prance, and was occasioned by on
attack of typhus fever. He was the author of " Phillip IV.
of Spain Knighting Velesques," one of the most admired
pictures in the exhioition at the Notional Gallery this year,
and ens which, by its genuine feeling and bistorie truth,
attracted the special commendation of her Majesty and
Priam Albert, who highly complimented Mr. Herbert on
his seit's suones sad promise of future distinction The
painting Itself, we believe, was purchased by the es-Lord
Mayer, being selected for his lordship by an academician
whom he bad comatissiosted to porches. the best cabinet
p'e'en in the exhibition. Mr. Herbert, at the time of his
death, was only in his 22nd year. He had bean agitated
at °aeon College, under Dr. Wisessa. and after leaving
wheel had studied painting under hie father, with whom be
bad spent two years and a bellies France. The body hu been
brought In Ragland, and buried at St. Johr's wend.
TOTING/UAL TO ANDREW ARCEDECINE, ESQ.—

Oa Tuesday last the committee appointed to carry oat the
wish,' of the subscribers met at the White Hart Ice, Wick.
ban Market, whence they proceeded to Gieverieg Hell.
Hero the Rev. 0. T. T , the chairman, in a short but
appropriate speech, had the b of handing to the High-
Sheriff a pair of massive miter claret jag., besting the Ed-
lowing Inscription Presented to Andrew Armdetkoe,
Req.. High Sheriff of Suffolk, as a token of the high esteem
la which he is held by his friends and neighbours!' It is
worthy of mention that avery subscription was entirely
uneolietted.—Burx Herald.
THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE WESTERN VALLEYS
RAILWAY —Nawroay, Nov. 24.—Today the ioquast on
the body of John Richards, Eremite, in the employ of the
Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, who was
killed oa the 19th inst. on the Western Valleys branch
Hee, was Iwoaght to • tertoiaati.a, the jury having sat at
AberbuCto hear the evidence. The question arose whether
the points were detective, or whether broken springs had
'eased the engine to jump off the lime, as was the cue on
the Newport sad Hereford line. William Thompson, rail
inspector, said the points were all right about an hour
before the accident, and the road was is a good 'audition.
Mr. Leybesree Meted that Col. Tolland. one of the govern-
ment Impactors' bad musined the See, and stated the
@Wee did not leave the rails from its faulty eonst•uetioo,
uor the breaking of its springs. Some other witneseet
havieg been examined, the jury returned a verdict of
A,4liztal death."