The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1858.

270 men, writes Dr. HALE, " many of them of the
" wont character and bent on mischief, were turned
" loose together into • low, half-lighted prison
" between decks, without an officer in the ship who
" had any previous acquaintance with the worst
" characters;" and, what appears more extraordinary
still, with no place whatever for the separate con-
finement of the refractory. The natural connect names
soon made themselves manifest; in that close and
'welt, ting atmosphere of moral pollution every
speci,s of crime rapidly developed itself. From
the first the manner of the men had been
unruly and turbulent; their conduct soon be-
I came openly and flagrantly mutinous. They
half murdered a warder, the surgeon nai,oxly
escaped with his life ; with horrible imprecations
and frantic gestures they threatened a general risiag
and an indiscriminate massacre. The women and

families of the soldiers and warders crowded wild
with terror to the cuddy and poop. The crew were
furnished with cutlasses, the guard were kept con-
stantly under arms, and when the prisoners rushed
in a body to batter down tl r bulkhead and bars,
which alone restrained them, orders were given to
fire down the hatchway upon the turbulent and
raging mass. The sight of the guns' muzzles
pointing down upon them produced& salutary efllct,
and the imminent risk of a successful out-
break was for the moment averted. Again
and again, however, in the course of the voyage the
mutinous spirit broke out. " Mamma- PERTH'S"
letter was written on shipboard, off Bahia, under
date the 3rd of last November, and we are yet
without information us to the circumstances under
which the Nile performed the residue of her passage.
Surely a statement like this, coming from one by
position and character so eminently entitled to atten-
tion, ought to produce a due effect on the Home-
office authorities. It is only common justice to Sir
GEORGE GREY and Colonel JESS to record our con-
viction that there has been on their parts an ear-
nest and anxious desire so to carry out the trans-
mission of convicts to Western Australia as at once
to afford a chance of retrieval to the more merito-
rious class of prisoners, and to avoid inundating the
colony with a flood of desperate and irreclaimable
reprobates. The fault has been the too common one
of placing undue reliance on the subordinate officials,
who have a personal interest in disembarrassing
themselves, at any cost, from the worst and most
troublesome class of prisoners. With regard to the
accommodation provided in convict ships, it cannot
surely be tolerated that these floating prisons should,
by offering no means whatever of separating
the worst class of prisoners from the rest,
increase to a maximum the chances pre-
sented by a protracted voyage of reducing all
their inmates to one level of depravation and guilt.
It is not, of coarse, for a moment to be supposed that
anything like cellular separation can be carried out
on board a convict ship ; all that can be reasonably
contended for is that a separate place of confinement
should be provided for the incorrigibly refractory
and the hopelessly depraved. Unless both these
points are carefully attended to, we shall lose all
the benefits of what might. ,if properly managed, be
a most admirable stage of reformatory discipline,
and what is far worse, we shall impoverish, degrade,
and ruin a colony which abounds in promise, and
ought to flourish in prosperity.

Ems COLLEGE.-BT. PATRICK'S DAT.—On Wed-
nesday morning the Head Master, the Rev. Dr. Goodford,
M and the Lower aster, the Rev. W. A. Carter, were each,
according to annual custom, presented with a badge with
the shamrock beautifully embossed in gold and silver, in
honour of Ireland's patron saint, by Viscount Caatlecuffe
(page of honour to her Majesty) ; this young gentleman
being the Liti:lpt Irish noblemen in the whey!, wboee father,
the Berl of Deese, presented • similar badge twenty-See
years ago to the late Dr. Keate, the then Head Muter, and
the grandfather of the prevent viscount presented • similar
token to the Head Heater of Eton in 1802. About twenty-
three of the Irish noblemen and gentlemen, after the pre-
sentation, were entertained by the Rev. Dr. Ouodford at
breakfaet. Among those present were the Hon. Mr. Law-
-1.-es (ma.), captain of the boats, Viscount Cestlecuffe, Lord
Wallecourt, Lord Kent* Lord Langford, Lord Brabason,
the Hon. Mr. Lawless (mi.), the Hon. Mr. Trench, :the Hon.
Mr. Needham, the Hon. Mr. Butler, the Hon. Mr. Vanua*,
Messrs. Smith, Barry, Hoey, Stepney, Humpbris LongSeld,
he., he. Viscount Csatlecuffe also ',Tempted his tutor—
Ottiwell C. Watertleld, Esq.—with the badge and em-
blem of the shamrock.

ST. PATRtcit's DAY was celebrated in Dublin on
Wednesday with much spirit. The outdoor reception of
Lord Eglinton, at the ceremony of trooping the guard at the
Castle, was very favourable. His Excellency appeared in
the balcony, with a large bunch of shamrocks on his left
breast., the band playing the National Anthem " Patrick's
Day,' "The Sprig, of Shillelagh," " The harp that once
throe Tan's Hall,' and many other Irish melodies. In the
evening there was a drawing-room at the Castle, which was
attended by Earle Clancarty, Bandon, Courtown, Leitrim,
Desert, Bective, and Mayo ; Countersee Dveart, Clancarty,
Bandon, Milltown, &afield, Howth, Courtown, Donough-
mere, Beetles, and Mayo; Viscounts St. Lawrence An-
dover, Gough (General), Eawarden. and Dunlo. Vis-
uountessee awarden, Avonmore, and Netterride. Bishops
Tram and Kilmore. Lords Clatmorris, Cloncurry, Castle-
maize, Carber7 Farnham, Kilmaine, Muskerry, Georgc
Hill; Ladies Elizabeth Borough, Caroline Burgess,Castle-
mein., Anne Le Pore Trench, Anne Butler, Mary Bernard,
Barbary, Barbara Leeson, Mary Monet, Mary St. Lawrence,
Plaskett, Farnham, Kilmaine, Rommore, Darragh, Clon.
carry, Virginia Sanders, Margaret Burke, George Hill,
Fanny Close, &c. Samoan says it was the most nume-
reuely atteeded for many years, the company numbering
over 1,900 of the nobility and gentry.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the even-
ing meeting next Monday, at Burlington Roue, Sir
Roderick I. Murchison in the chair, the following papers
are to be read —l. Contributions to the Knowledge of New
Guinea, by Dr. Salomon Muller, communicated by John
Vesta, Esq., F.R.O.S. ; 2. Latest Communication', on Aus-
tralian Exploration., by Captain Freeling, R.E., Surveyor-
Genera, and Mr. Stephen Hack, communicated by the Colo-
nial-Aloe.:
THE OATH OF FEALTY AT OXIORD.—In the
town council held yesterday the report of the Wide com-
mittee 'commending the expunging of the ohm. s forbid-
ding the mayor:raid sheriff from taking the customary oath
to the university was rejected by the casting vote of the
mayor, the numbers being 17 for and 17 against.
MEDICAL STUDENTS AT OXFORD.—A memorial
Ms Waybuns kirwarded to the Hebdomadal Council of the
University of OsSord, praying for a reduction of the term
of residemoe from three to two years in the ease of medical
elndsate. It appears that at present only two • year out of
more than 10,000 prifessional men take medical degrees at
the university, the great expense of college residence proving
in most cues an insurmountable obstacle. More than eighty
signatures have been attached to the memorial. Among them
are the names of the Bishop of St. Araph, Professors Den-
hay and Covington, Dr. Jolt, of King'. College; Dr.
Tempi, of Buoy ; Dr. Moberly, of Winchester ; Mr.
Kaye, and Mr_Maurice.

Pea CoRRESPONDENCE.—It is well that it
shouldbe widely known that there is no security accorded to
letters either received from or sent to persons residieg in
Erases. A French gentleman, residing le Plymouth, told
us the ether day that he seat a letter to his brother, who re-
sides la Paris, and that although he first gemmed and then
sashed it, It bad been opened, and was delivered open.
araraber gentleman who Ike. in this neighbourhood informs
es that kis letters were delivered in France after having
beta opened aad the lettere that he had received had been
andwaled with the official semi. In one of these
lettere the writer stated that there was a feeling in Paris of
great Insecurity, sad that the present dynasty was not worth
six maths' purchase. It is strange that the authorities
should have allowed such en opinion as tbia to travel. On
Saturday last a resident in Otorge•street, Plymouth,
received a letter from France. It had been opened, and
was sealed with two seals, etch as lugs as a half pens
Owe. The letter was mat to ua before it was opened,
roe us to rem it, the gentleman to whom it was addressed
being very Indignant at the evidence it gave of the eystern of
spa that sow reigns, throughout France.—Plymouth
Astrid!.

SOLVENCY MUTUAL GUARANTEE COMPANY.—
Tits ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above
company was held on Wednesday last at the offices, 38, Xing
William-street, Cornelius Rack, CLUnnati of the (Unc-
logs, fa the chair ARe* the clittal prelltoinaties, Mr. C. R.
Caudell, managing amen'' read the report, disclosing a
sa meet da state of the company's affairs, and recom-
mending the dsclaratlon of a bonus varying from 61. 6e. Bd.
to 231. le. per cent. on the prernhuns of participating mem-
bers. The report and lanoe-sbeet ware unanimously
adopted. Mr. -Rock was unanimously re•elected chairman of
directors, and the meeting terminated with an understanding
that the buatoers of the company was In futuro to be carried
on by the Mercantile Asaraace Coterany, to which all the
policies were In coarse of bolsi transferred.
CITITAL PALM. ONE SHILLINO DAT. --
To triuntsv, MAIL= Ig.—Admissions on payraeat, 883;
ditto b MKS thskete. 286; Mimi, 1,288,

rbt Conn.

Viscount Sydney Sydney had an audience of the Queen on
Wednesday at Buckingham Palace, and delivered to her
Majesty his Gold Stick of aloe as Captain of the Yeomen of
the Guard.

---Yesterday was the birthday of the Princess LIWM. The
Ducker of Kent paid a visit of congratulation to the Queen
in the forenoon at Buckingham Palate.
The Earl of Derby bad an attlienos of her Majesty.
The Prinoe Cor ,iort rod. on horseback with the Prince of
Wales, attended by Captain the Eon. D. de Boa.
Prince Alfred, auended by Lieutenant Cowell, arrived in
the afternoon from Alverbank.

The Princess Alice tooklL(l2.lva in a carriage and four in
the forenoon.

The Queen and the Prince Conaart, with the Princess
Alice, and the Princess Louisa, took a drive in an open
carriage and four in the afternoon. Lord Colville and Capt.
the lion. D. de Roe attended on horseback.

The Queen gave a ball in the evening to a party of be-
tween 160 and 170 of the juvenile nobility and gentry.
The Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Fanny Howard
and Sir damp Contra) and the Duchessof Cambridge and
the Princess Mary arrived about 9 o'clock.
The Queen, the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, Prises Arthur, end the Princemes Alice,
Helena, and Louie' enterei the Throne Hoeas soon after 9
o'clock, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess
of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary.
The Princesses Alice, Helena, as 1 Louis wore pink glace
skirt., with bouilionnies of pink tulle, tastefully trimmed
with wreathe of snowdrops.
The Prince's Alice wore a wreath of enowdrope round her
heed.

The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred wore the highland
draws.

Her Majesty's private band was in attendance and danc-
ing commenced.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations, but
some wtro prevented by domestic Unction from obeying her
Majesty's commands:
The French Ambassador and ;1., ,nesis de pernig.y,
Countess Lj (metre de Persigny ' Igian Minister and
Madame Van de Weser, Miss Master Alb. rt, and
Kiss Louisa Van de Weyer ; the Turkish Ambassador and
Madame Maurits, Mademoiselle Idusurus, and Mademoiselles
Rebuke and Cassandra Maseru' ; Prussian Minister
and Countess de Bernstorff, Count Andrew do Bern:4olH,
Countess Therm de Bernatorff ; Marquis and Marchioness
of Salisbury, Lord Sicken!' Arthur Cecil ; Earl and Coun-
tess of Hardy icke, Hon. Edot Constantine Yorke, Hon.
Alexander Yorke ; Sir John and Lady Pakington, Master
Herbert Pikington ; Earl and Countess Do-la-Warr • Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Exeter, Lady Victoria Cecil; the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis of Worcester, Lord
Henry Somerset ; Earl and Countess of Verulam, Lady
Harriet and Lady Jane Orimeton ; Viscount and Viscoun-
tess Strathallan, Hon. W. Drummond, Hon. Hersey
Arabella Drummond, Hon. Frances Drummond ; Lord
and lady Claud Hamilton, Miss Louisa Hamilton, Miss
Emma Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ormsby Gore, Miss
Ormsby Gore; Colonel the Hon. A. N. end Lady Mary
Hood, Miss Mary Hood, Master William Hood; Colonel Y.
H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Miss Seymour, Mies Florenos,
Master Hugh, Master Albert, and Miss Georgina Seymour;
Lieutenant-Colonel and Lady Emily Cavendish, Miss Caven-
dish; Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson of Invercauld, Muter
Albert, Master °creel= and Miss Amelia Fiuquhanim;
Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Hon. George Orlando
Bridgman, Hon. Frances Bridgman, Hon. Gerald Bridgman;
Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Master Phipps, and
Muter Albert Augustus Phipps ; the Duke and Duchess of
Manchester, Lord Churchill, Mr. Gibbs, Lieutenant Cowell,
LE., Sir James Clark, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey;
Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington ; the Counter.' of Cale-
don, the Earl of Caledon, and the Hon. Walter Alexander ;
Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Mies Victoria, and
Miss Evelyn Paget; the Duchess of Sutherland, Lords
Albert and Ronald Leman Gower; Earl and Countess of
Clarendon, Lady Emil y Hyde Villiers, Lord Hyde, and the
Hon. George Hyde Villiers; the Marquis and Marchioness
of Aberoorn, Lord George Hamilton, Lady Alberni* and
Lard Ronald Hamilton; the Hon. Charles Gore and the
Countess of Kerry Master Francis Gore, Mies Emily Gore,
Muter Spucer Gore; Colonel Hon. Augustus and Mrs.
Liddell, Master Edward and Muter Franca Liddell; Lord
end Lady Charles Wellealey, Mira Victoria, Master Henry,
and Muter Arthur Wellesley ; Sir Charles and Lady Mary
Wood, Master Frederick and Mies Alioe Wood ; Right Hon.
11. and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Miss Herbert ; Right lion. W.
E. and Mrs Gladstone, Master Stephen, Miss Mazy, and
Miss Helen Gladstone; Lord and Lady John Russell, Master
George and Master Francis Albert Russell; the Right Hen.
H. and Lady Mary lAbouchere, Miss Mena and Mute Emily
Labouchere ; the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lorn, Lied
Archibald, Lord Walter, and Lady Edith Campbell ; Vis-
count and Viscountess Emlyn, the Ron. Muriel Campbell,
Hon. Frederick, and Hon. Ronald Compbell ; Lord and
L Stuart.
t Blantyre, the Hon. Mary Ellen, Evelyn, and Gertrude
S

The Ditches' of Cambridge sad the Princess Mary visited
the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence-house, St.
James's.

A deputation on the subject of the Mutiny Act (Scotch
billeting question) had an interview with Gecerel Peel yes-
terday, at the oilier of the Secretary of State for War. The
deputation consisted of Messrs. William Kerr William
Murray, and William Dahymple (Edinburgh), Mr. Adam
Black, M.P. Mr. Baxter, M.P., Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart.,
M.P., Sir William Dunbar Bart., M.P., Mr. Fergus, M.P.,
Mr. Craufurd, M.P., 81r John Ogilvy, Bart., MX., Sir
Edward Colebrook., Bart., M.P., Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P.,
Mr. Dalgleish, M.P, Mr. Buchanan, M.P., Mr. Alex. 8.
ILL r., Mr. Cowan, m.r., Mr. Stirling, M.P., Sir
Graham Montgomery, M.P., Mr. Dunlop, Y.P. and Mr.
Duff, M.P.

A depntetion on the business of the Great Southern of
India Railway Company, had an interview with the Earl of
Ellenborough at the Board of Control yesterday. The de-
putation consisted of Mr. Chapman (chairman),
Cheetham, M.P. ((chairman of the Cotton Supply
don) Mr. H. A. Bruns, M.P., Mr. A. B. Bruce, C.R., Sir
J. Voice, M.P., Mr. J. C. Evart, M.P., Mr. Milner Gib-
son, M.P, Mr. Borstal', Y.P., Alderman Kershaw, M.P.,
the Hon. My Liddell, H.P., Mr. Notman, Mr. Rotipsll, Sir
Alexander Rammy H.P. Mr. Stephenson, M.P., Mr. J. R.
Smith, M.P., Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P., Mr. Townsend, Mr.
Woods, M.P., and Mr. Whitworth, secretary to the Cotton
Supply Aanciatkin.
bur Maurice Berkeley, K.C.8., had an interview with the
Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterel4 at the Board of Trade,
and presented a petition from the landowners and merehacut
ft the neighbourhood of Portsmouth for the improvement of
the entrance to the Longton Harbour.
A deputation on the subject of Hampetead-beath had an
interview with Lord John Manners yesterday at the office of
Works, in Whitehall-place. The deputation emulated of
Mr. Turner, Mr. Gurney Hoare, Mr. Pryor, Mr. D. Powell,
Mr. Le Breton, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Sudlow, parliamentary

-The Bishop of Montreal had aa interview with Lord
Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday.
A deputation from inhabitants and ratepayers of Milton-
next-Sittingbourne had an Interview yesterday with the
Right Hon. C. B. Adderiey, M.P., President of the General
Board of Health, at the otdoe of the Board, Whitehall. The
deputation consisted of Xeres. Charles Wood, William
Whitehead Gasooyne, John Frog* John B. Hole, and
Thome. Tarps. The deputation was introduced by Sir
Brook W. Bridges, Bart., M.P.
A deputation from the Society of Friends, consisting of
Josiah Forster, Anthony Harris, Francis Fox,Samuel Fox,
and Robert Forster, transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office, on tho subject of the African slave trade.

The roadway of the new Chelsea-bridge is now
complete and ready for opening to the public. Yesterday it
was crossed for the first time by their Royal Elighnesees the
Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, accompanied by
their attendants. Mr. Page, the engineer, and Profeseor
Faraday received the royal party and accompanied them
along the bridge.

Sir E. Bufwer entertained at dinner on Wednes-
day Lord Loraine, M.P., the Earl of Carnareon, Viscount
Exmouth, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Robert Call, M.P., the
Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., the Right Hon. C.
Adderley, M.P., Admiral Walcott, M.P., General Hall,
M.P., Mr. Butt, M.P., Mr. Warren, M.P., Mr. Peacock,
Mr. Ford, Mr. Gammen, Mr. Bimodal°, &c.
The Right Hon. Edward Horsman, M.P., received
at dinner, on Wednesday, at his house in Richmond•terrace,
the Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord and Lady Charles
Rumen, the Right Hon. Vernon and Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Lane Fox, Sir R. Bothell, Sir W. Somerrine, Mr. and Mn.
F. Dundee, Mr. Kinglike, Mr. Fonblanque, Mr. Elphin-
stone Duff, &c.

Mr. and Mrs. Northall Laurie have left the
Queen'. Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town.

Last night the Lord Mayor and a large party of
Mende attended one of the public 'rappers at Christ's Hos-
pital. The Duke of Cambridge, governor of the inatitallon,
was also present.

Professor Owen delivered the lint of his annual
series of twelve lectures upon Pahoontology, In the theatre
of the Museum in yerreye-street, yesterday, to a very large
and distinguished audience, including a great number of the
fairer sex. We were by no means surprised at this, as the
learned professor showed last year that he possessed the
hippy faculty of rendering his subject pleasant and profit-
able to the comparatively unlearned, ss well as to the pro-
fasted sauna ; the younger ladies yesterday seemed quite as
much ocnried La note-takir4 se the termitic The subjects;
for the present year are " Fossil Birds and Reptiles," sad
the lactates will be delivered on Thursdays and Fridays, at
time p m., the fee for the course being fixed at the low sum
of tive shillings.
_ _

A Vienna letter in the Inderpendance of Brussels
says —.Sir Hamilton Seymour, availing himself of a leave
of abase°, which he obtained some time ago, will shortly
Pay a visit to England with Lady Seymour, who has lately
recovered from a rather serious illness. Baron de Bour-
gooney will also pay a visit to Paris after Easter to fetch
Madame de Bourqueney and hie childnai to Vienna."

LATEST INfELLIGENCE

RELEASE OF HENRY WATT, THE ENG-
LISH ENGINEER, AT NAPLES.

(DT SUINARINI AND BRITISH TNLIORAPD.)
(TROY OVA OWN CONAISPONDINT.)
NAPLES, MARC!? 18.
Watt has received permission to return freely to
England.
The decree was signed this morning.

INTERNATIONAL DEALING WITH
REFUGEES.

(From yesterday's Moniteur.)

Some foreign journals have appeared to be
astonished that Franco should have asked
the Continental and neighbouring Powers to
remove the dangerous refugees from her fron-
tier. France has in that respect done no
more than use a right of international reciprocity.
Nobody was astonished that Switzerland last year
should have asked the French Government to in-
terser the refugees who desired the restoration of
royalty at Neufchatel. Nor was any one surprised
that Spain should have asked us to i,,terner the Car-
list refugees, and that the Cortes should have thanked
the Emperor for having prevented civil war by that
measure. The conduct of France, then, has been
founded on an absolute principle of international
right existing at all periods.

UNITED STATES.

By the arrival of the usual steamer at South-
ampton, we hive New York papers to the 6th inst., but they
contain no news of say interest.

The New York cotton market closed at about 12c. fur
middling uplands, and at 121 c. for middling Gulfs. Flour
was in good demand and firmer, especially fur good shipping
grades, which were not plenty. Southern brands also con-
tinued in good demand fur export, and the market cloud at
firmer rates. Wheat was quiet but firm, with Wes of small
lots of prime Kentucky white at I dol. 45c., Virginia mixed
at 1 dol. 20c., and Chicago going at 1 dol. 2c. Corn was
firmer, and sold at 680. to 70c., with sales of prime yellow
for export at the latter figure. Pork was firmer, with kaki
of mess at 16 dole. 80c. to 16 dole ttic. on the spot and at
16 dole. 7k. to arrive next week. Sugars were firmer and
in good demand. Coffee was in moderate request, and prices
unchanged. Freight engagements were moderate, and rates
were without change of moment. The dipper ship Wanderer
was taken up for Cronatadt, Russia, to load with cotton at
lc. per lb.