The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

TEE MAIL ILUVICII.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.
The steam hip Tagus left this day with the
usual Peninsular mails and dam pssiengers. She is ens
of the oldest ships in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
service, having been running now for 20 years. lost year
she made sixteen passages with the Penizeular mails, rot •
disarm°, of 39,128 miles, end entered 192 times into Varian/
ports st all periods of the night sod in all kinds of weather,
f ITbe steem•ship Northam, which left here on the let of
November for Bombsy, to convey the mails from thence to
Suez, arrived at Maurine' on the 22nd of December, and on
the 24th proceeded to her destination. The Peninsular and
Oriental Company have now 62 ships employed in the trans-
port of the mans, viz., be' wean Southampton, Malta, and
Alexandria, 9 ; between Suez, Aden, Ceylon. Madras, and
Calcutta, 8 ; betwe.n Bombay and Suez, aid Suez, Mauri-
tius and Atonal* 7; between Bombay, Ceylon, Straits,
and China, 10; between Mauritius and Reunion,
1; between Hong Hods, Shangehe and Canton, 7;
between Hong Kong and Mazdlls, 2; between Manerilles,
Malta, sad Alcundt is, 6; between Southamptem, Vigo,
Oporto, and Lisbon. 3. The following are the days of be:
from Southampton for the pasta named:—On the
pasture
20th of eerh math for Gibraltar, Malts, Alexandria,
Aden, Galls (Ceylon), Madre', Calcutta, Penang. iliegepore,
Hong Kong, Shanghse, and Manilla. On the 12th of each
mouth for Gibraltar, Malty, Messed,* Aden, Bombay,
Maurine', King Geoex'skliowid, Kangaroo Totaud (Ado-
hide), Melbourne, S .On the 12th and 27th of every
month for Gibraltar, Mal Alexandria, Aden, and Bombay.
On the 7th, 17th and 27th of each month, for Vigo, Oporto,
and Lisbon. It is expeoted that the departure of thesaid
Australian packet win be delayed in corequenoe of the anti-
cipated late arrival of VW homeward packet at Suez. The
Avon broke down 60 miles from Lisbon, when within 60
hours' /deeming of S mtheropton, sad after a voyage of 8,000
mike. Sash as accident ban never happened before to any
of the Royal Mail Company's shim

THE RECENT DISTURBANCES AT SACEVILLE COL.
Leon.—On Thursday lest the Hon. sad Rev. R. W.
&thrills Wise, owl J. Hoary Rogers, Esq., the essisteat
wardens of the college, held an inquiry in the Co/lege-had,
in 1100C441DCO with the statutes, into the origin of the lets
disturbenoss, 'shish eventuated in the committal of ono
of the fetes'' pensioners to Lewes gent. The hots
elided in the come of a lengthened investigation,
is the presence of nearly ell the inmate', having
proved to be so murk at variance with the espresso.
bilious made to the magistrates on the preceding Monday,
the assistant wardens determitted to place the evidence in ths
bands of Mr. Lanham. of I:ckfleid, with a view to ulterior
preendings—Sesser Advertiser.
A MAGISTRATE UNDERFoaIed, En.,
J.P., found himself in • moot disagreeable and somewhat
perilous position the other day, in Cr. sling the pound at
Tom All-Atones, Chatham, used for musketry prude°.
The officer in commend ripped the firing et first, but it re-
othunew cd before lie. Foord had got out of it. tangs, sad
the worthy magistrare was compelled to ecek Debt, by lying
flat on the potted until the practice was over. Re ewe not
»Bawd from his danger until he had spent more then hall
hts
an hour in listening to the bullets whining over head.
Think of the military biasing away at a civil authority in
this et) lo i—Meisktorte Journal.
SUFFERINGS OP MINERS.—The latest particulars
at Victoria report that the Friver and Harrison rivers were
copse, and that the shouter Enterprise was at Langley, with
her bottom wore though by the low Chest suffering bed
been esp.neuctd by the animus coming dews. A party of
about 120 h-.,1 c are down the river in cams, Datil they
struck the tee bdow the mouth of Hansen River. They
then 10 rased for Langley overland, supposing it to be forty-
five miles dial ant. The distance was granter. A tail ha to be
made over high mountains, through ten Mehra of snow;
*loathe waist d ep were yodel, the cold being intense,
awl the underbrush WA end pissed with difficulty.
They had only one day's poviWon*, and were three days
without food. litany were frost-bitten. A Dutchman and
hie wile, names unknown, were fioren to death. Com.
phtely exheueted, many sat down to die. Sir. Bryant, Into
superintendent of Lillian& trail, gave up four miles from
Langley, an! adrieed his eon to to on. He also give up
two miles farther on. George Frew* a hardy pioneer, late
LUho t trail surveyor, formerly surveyor of Butte county,
California, lay down, worn out with to I. When bop was
waning fen, the whhtls of the steamer Rwereelte, which
bad got out of the icn wee limed, and they aft re ravel and
carried to Lentley. Rumours ate eottlietiug mto the num-
ber of deaths:
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CITE OP LONDON HOSPITAL FOR Dieltsths OF
Tan OM; VICTORIA.PAIL-A sermon In aid of the
funds of tint useful iestitethe was preached on Sunday Ise&
at Reton-chthel, Ea-square,by the Rev. Henry Chnst-
m F.R.B. The prevalence of pulmonary coat-
plaiets testis couwec, sal the Witt off .rd...d by its hospital
to the suffering paw in the populous die riots of the metro-
polis, were urged es tolling for the support rif them. pads-
tnth's hrearete, and a collection was wadi amounting to
431.4 e. Id.
METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE.
ClTY.—The aggregate number of patients relieved
during the week ending Fantasy 6 arse—Medical, 672;
surgical, 419; total, 1,191. of which 310 wen new cues.