The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

IHE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER I*.

the cookery of " that foggy isle." M. CaIIVALEMee
highest praise of England, after all, amounts to
this—England, as a commercial, iadwalrial, and
fees-trading nation, has immense interests to pro-
tect in every sea ; she has given the most precious
bastages to peace—but if she is attacked, she will
dal knockdown blows. The Coiestittaionnel seems
to think that it was the duty of M. Cuaysualt to
writs home that England was going to the
dogs, and totally incapable of self-defenes.
Bat we are sot at all persuaded that he would haws
served the interacts of the allivoge, which even the
Owittitetienwsl miasma to advocate, better by saying
that Ragland was anew prey than by remarking
that she was • precious, and porsibly an ugly, cus-
tomer.

We do not Mtn& much importance to inch squibs
and cracker, me the psmpblet with the alarming
" Gwen l l'Anglais," which that amiable
humanitarian Socialist, M. Loots JOURDAN, has
lately dung into the air. On the contrary, we re-
joice that M JOURDAN has said his say, as oar
Surrey volunteers are determined to flee their rifles,
" la t►e open," where it makes a little fizz, and
Awe nobody any he,m. In all probability M.
JOORDAN'S windy indignation is perfectly sinters;
le thinks be is serving Femme, and therefore
" Humanity," by declaiming against English
"egoism," and who knows but with those
slashing stvokes of the pen he may be cutting
the Saes Canal ! At all events, we are glad
that be is allowed to write and to print, since to
M. JOURDAN we are indebted for the noble words of
M.PZTRAT on bakalf of the land and home of liberty
Setter, we say, a hundred times that the JOURDANS
sad the Britain, and the VEUILLOTS should
bark themselves hoarse, that bloodthirsty lyrics
should be set to music by authority for the Zonaves,
and that the Central bureau of public opinion should
flood the provinces with savage abuse of " that foggy
" isle," than that all this religious rancour and
hamanitarian hate should be gat acrid up in the
Roily bosoms of bilious publicists, and that we
should fancy ourselves beloved by men who
can never hear the name of England men-
tioned without foaming at the mouth. We
are infatuated enough to believe that this peculiar
rage is fu less dangerous when it is unmerited.
Our own sensations teach us that were we less
accustomed to publio speaking than we are in this
t pantry we should be far more sesceptible to the
bad language of our neighbours ; es it is, we despair
of teaching them how great a load of evil-speaking
England can endure, whilst she contiones to merit
the generous sympathy of those enlightened men to
whom the land of liberty is a secmid country.

We have been earl:need, however, to find such •
writer as M. PRZVOST-PAHADOL, who, like M.
PITILAT, knows England. her language, literature,
laws, and institutions intimately and by heart,
reproaching is with our " Isolation" in Europe, and
taunting us with our armament, as the penalty we
pay for our neutrality. Can M. Paavo•t-PAaaDot.
pretend that England would be mare honoured
or mon secure now if she had fought side
by side with France at Solferino, and signed
the peace of Villafraoca ? Dors he mean that
England ahonld have fought with Austria? Is
England more honoured or more wore for having
fought side by side with the Zonavee at Sebastopol?
Questions we decline to answer, but which suffice
to show thit the best service England can render to
the pose* and liberty of Europe is to keep the
peace herself, and to make her own rights, liber-
ties, and interests secure.

LATEST INTIILLIGRIVUE.

PIEDMONT.

The Minister of Marine has ordered that 'Tuscan
and Modenese mariners shall be received, without
restriction as to number, amongst the crew
of Sardinian vessels, and that Sardinian
sailors shall embark upon the vessels of
Tummy and Modena without giving the gal-
rantees usually required before sailing under a
foreign flag. "These important regulations," says
the Piedmonts,* Gazette, " Wive for their object
the identification, as much as possible, of the navies
of the governments of Central Italy with those of
the government of the Msg."

TUSCANY.

We reed in the Tutu Nowiterr:

'. The Tuscan deputation after its departure from
Berlin, had the honour of being received officially
and is a friendly manner by Prince Gortchakoff at
Warsaw on the 25th ult. In returning through
Berlin it also had the honour of being received offi-
cially and with kindness on the let by Baron de
Schleinitz."

THE REGENCY OF CENTRAL ITALY.
PARIS, Tr ESDAT.
The Constirestionnel of to-day, in an article signed
by its chief editor, Grandgoillot, on the regency of
the Prince de Crignan, says :
" The acceptation of the regency by the Prince
de Carignan would have canted the open interven-
tion of Sardini► in the affairs of Central Italy, and
then Sardinia could not h►ve prevented, on the
other hand, the entry of the Neapolitan troops
into the Roman territory."

THE UNITED STATES.

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OPROW 0171 OWN COI

NEW YOB.X, Nov. I.
The trial of "Old Brown," as he is called, was
brought to a clam lest night by a verdict of guilty.
This result of fours. tacit •1 no surprise, bat the
indecent and inhuman pri eipivtlion by which the
whole procsedings have been marked have excited a
reaction, even in the feelings of the ultra corset Ca-
tivo", in the prieoner's favour. He was, as I men-
tioned in my lit letter, brought into court on a bed,
with four revere wounds in various pets of his body,
and @resigned while unable is sit up without mist-
*nee. Moreover, though he dt elered that he could
have no confident e in the Virginian @sunset arsigned
him by the court, consideilng the excited state of
the public mind, end the ferocious hostility ex-
hibited tswards him by all demos of the
community, he wes refired the two days'
delay that would have been nrcelsary to pro-
cure legal erliegen!, from the Free States, upon which
he could rely. The consequence was that the mem-
bers of the Messachusetts and Ohio her, whom he
employed, did not make their apparent:o in court
until all the evidence for the pre:rcurion was in ;
end they were corer .1 led to enter upon their duties
without r insultalion with the prisoner, without any
accurate knowledge of the facts, and little or none of
the Virginian criminal code. On Saturday evening
they had been without sleep for two nights—pertly
spent in travelling, partly in study—an pressed for
en adjournment until Monday inimaing, to enable
them to recover from complete physical exhaustion.
The prosecution fiercely opposed it, on the ground
that all the women in Virginia " were harmed by
alarm and anxiety as long as the trial lasted," and that
the jurymen wanted to get home to their wives;
and the summing-up was accordingly commenced
alter nightfall, and continued during the evening,
soil the prisoner's counsel only escaped having to
address the jury through the extreme lateness of the
hour. The trial closed yesterday, with the result I
have stated above. For gross inhumanity, for fero-
cious indifference to the commonest claims of fair
play, it has never had any writhe in this country.
There are, I am glad to say, no American " State
Trials;" and the only parallel in modern times for
the mockery of legal foams which we have just wit-
nessed is to be found in the reports of the Irish
treason oases in 1798, or of the Scotch courts when
Lord Broxfield adorned the bench of the Court of
Session. Before the week is over the Virginian
ladies will breathe freely over Old Brown's grave,
and the Virginian militia lay down its arms in pesos
of mind; but the abolitionists have nevertheless
achieved a moral triumph. Brown's attempt at first
excited great horror, but the absurd panic into
which it threw the Virginians, and the cowardly
eagerness for his blood which was displayed in the
meaner of conducting the trial, has done much to
turn the tide of sympathy in his favour.
Desperate attempts have been made by the demo-
crats to fasten the charge of complicity in the
attempt, upon Seward and other leading republicans.
It was generally supposed that the outbreak
would have a serious influence upon the fortunes
of the free-soil party in the coming election, by
alienating a large number of its timid members, who
naturally shrink from supporting any doctrines
which seem to suggest, let it be ever so remotely, a
social convulsion. Bat these efforts to fasten some
portion of Brown's guilt upon a large number of
honourable and eminent men have failed so im-
mensely that the affair is already beginning to lose
most of its political importance. Not a particle of
evidence, in spite of the revelations which we
have been promised every day for the last fortnight,
has yet been adduced in support of the charge. The
extreme abolitionists, it is true, make no conceal-
ment of their admiration for Brown and his exploits,
but between them and the republicans there is still
a wide gulf, much as the events of the last few years
have done to narrow it.

As regards the unfortunate prisoners themselves,
no party and no cause in the world need be ashamed
of them. I doubt if the annals of any country can
show instances of greater fortitude, greater heroism,
a stronger reliance upon the weight of an idea than
these men have exhibited.

The Assembly of Modems having is its lest sitting
doomed that the domain of Casteivecchio, which is national
property, should be presented se • gift to Dictator Farint,
the War hmasdiately returned Janke in a letter, In which,
however, he respectfully declined accepting the donation.
Thermos, President Malrausi and some deputies waited
upon K. Parini, in order to perauede lain to acoept ; but he
• " Geetleteee, do not deprive me of the glory of
dying poor." This dieinteresteduess has crested a great @sn-
eaks at Modes&

Lettere from Erzeroom state that the cold weather
bee already set in, and that snow has begin to fall. The
ass advice' report that Hie Majesty the Shah of Persia
had lit Taken to return to the capital. The Perrin
goverment had despatched a high dignitary of state to
proceed to the frontiers of Aserbigisn, to meet His Ens'.
leery Sir Henry Rawilmoo, H. B. M. Minister to the
Persian court, and oondoct Ms Emellency to Tetterae.

The Levant Herald of the tad says :—" Oa Sun-
day wooing his Exoallency Sir Henry Bolster Wt the Bas•
plexus for Volo, where he will meet his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred, who was expected time yesterday or today
hi the Etuyalus. Priests letters bake= as that both at
Volo and Larissa, which the prince was also tot Lea, great
preparations were being made by the authorities and priv►te
essidents to give the royal midshipman a briliieut reception.
♦ squadron of fierlyk Parka's cosseeks of the Behan had
be,. told off to form his snort dining a round of excursions
to Mount Olympus, and the various:places of filtered within
and around the classic plain of Phonate. The ambassador
will return to the capital early next week.

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The Sligo papers of Saturday bring an account of
a terrible explosion in a flotr-mill, by which five persons
were killed on the spot, and several others more or keg in-
jured by barns.

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INSANE SOLDIERS AT LANOL—After the diseOn.
Hanscom of the premise for sate tiles, the military authori-
ties at Chatham ere again about to resort to the system of
setting at liberty theme soldiery, who are found incurable,
In the pablic street., a communication having been yesterday
morning receive t by the tma authorities at Rochester, in
which city the Military Lunatic Asylum at Fort Pitt hap-
pens to be skulls, that as Meese soldier would be set at
liberty in one of the streets this looming, the notice being
glees In order that the MOM II y steps may be taken I. pre-
vent his cumniuktg any (admit', and to enable the police to
apprehend hem. The Meyer of Rochester, to WllOOl the
coutrounioation wet addressed, brought the subject before
the *Mice of the bench of magistrate* at Chatham yesterday,
when It wet stated that, in coememence of the expense us-
tailed on the palish in which Fort Pitt lies by the military
authorities discharging the lunatic soldiers, aod thus causing
them to be chargeable to that parish, steps would be taken to
resist the conduct of the government, which is believed to be
wholly Illegal. Several insane soldiers were emus time since
discharged from Fort Pitt at unities pried.; but, in comm-
unism,* of the representations made by the authorilles,
directions IMO gime to discontinue the practice, which,
however, appears about to be recommenced.
FLOATING LIGHTS AT SEA.—MT. Ferdinand
Situ, Inventor of the indesiractible lights applicable for
telegraphic purposes at see, and also to Foist out the proems
of bile-buoys in cam of shipwrecks or other such disasters,
end which were exhibited for the approval of the Lords of
the Admiralty in September Imo, in the presence of Commo-
dore the Hon. Btr Jams Drummond, C. 8., and the of
of Woolwich Dockyard, lest night performed • rooms of ex-
periment. at Blackwell fur the eatiefaction of Ad-
miral lltHerdy, Capt. F. R. Ward, members of
the Royal Natioaal Lifeboat Institution Committee;
Capt. Roberteon. Surveyor- Omerel ; Mr. Lewis, Se.
mum; Mr. Om, and other members of the
Board of Trade who were present. The experiments com-
menced at 6 o'clock, when a number of the doming lights,
Washed to lines, were mat into the river trout the pier. On
!Weft to the surface, the phrephorio subetsece of which
they are composed suddenly !meet into • blaze of light, sad
was wily extinguished by being dragged under the water.
The apparatus kneaded for the telegraphic light resembles
• moderator table-lamp. This was placed on the jetty near
the water's edge, and was operated by the inventor. In spite
of the opaque fog, which completely eashrouded the river
from beak to bank, the strove glare of the phosphoric light
penetrated fur some considerable die' mote, end we igrotefully
asknowledge4 by yeveral boatmen, who would otherwise hove
bad great difficulty in making the pier. &miler experiments
IMO entered into a few days ago in the pre of Admiral
Gordo& sod the Brethren of Trisity House, together with
the officers of the exploring ship Fox. It was then pro-
acetaced test the eleventh's was extremely suitable for all the
purposes above named, butt hegotoes sot recommend the
Yes apparatapplicable for Ugh
- Daring the part week, some one entered a back
bedvoem at Mr. Cobb's Itailentv Tammy; Stretford New
TIPIIM, and eels frees • chest of drums la his bad-Toole,
2IIJ. It is supped the robbery was effected shout 7 o'clock
in Wow ing. sad by new sae wen acqagated with the
praise.

• VOLUNTIBB ItIFLE CORPS.—(TEId DAI.)
thin esoreinir a meeting pf the parishioners of St
MertMedo-the-ntade was held in the Vali" Rom, to
take late eceaideratien the propriety of fouslng • v01.••t...
rile oorps he the parish; the Rev. W. G. Ho , •
*set I. the °hair. lettere approrinv of the objects of the
meeting were read from the Duke of Northumberland, Lord
Overstoce, the Earl of Ripon, Sir Wm. Gomm, Lieutenant-
Colonel Crichton Stuart, ko. Several subscription. of 101.
were annonnood, sod one of 201. Irom the London General
Omnibus Company.
The CHAIRMAN said he hoped the fact of his being
called to the chair was a token that the titration was for the
preerestion of pews. (Ern, hear.) He believed it wee the
uniaereel desks of the nation that the country should
remain at peace with all the notices and languages
of the work. (Hear, btu.) When they looked round
at their neighbours, they found it difficult to
discover any cause of quarrel with any. They were in a state
of profound peers, appereutly at hest, with their nearest
nsightsur ally. Their fleet* sod their armies were combined
together, sad they were pursuing together the path of civil-
. leetlest. Yet there prevailed instead of peace sad tranquillity
wnetery feeling. Some Mere to say that wee
might take place before • long time elapsed, but he
hoped it nes only one of the rumours that sometimes
alms over mankind without say real foundation, and that it
would leave no Uwe behind. As a change, however, was
not only parible, but probable, it behoved them to take such
step u were best tined for the preeervation of peace ; and if
piece could not be preserved, then such measures as would
pat them in a position to meet the unhappy state of things
that must ensue should he taken. A war between
England and nonce would ho one of the greatest calamities
that could lappen, for it would not only effect the two
nations themselves but the whole world. Therefore what•
ever government or tuler brought about such a elate of
things would be guilty of a great aims against humility.
This movement was gathering strength throughout the
country end it would sot do for the inhabitants of
the royal sod loyal width of St. Martin's to be
behind hand. The metropolis was the heart of the
country, and if a blow was struck it would be
struck at the metropolia. It therefore behoved the
metropolis to be to the vanguard of the movement, and of
the
heers rostropo).lis that parish ought to be amongst the foremost.
(C
Mr. Scott' moved the first resolution es follows That
in the opinion of the mt sting, fur the purpose of strengthen-
ing the national army for the internal defence of the country,
it was expedient to form a vrAunteer rife corp.." Then
were nine perished in Westminster, and If each parish
formed its own company, there wield be • brigade of at
least 1000 man for the whole of Westminster. Though they
were • little behind hand, he hoped they would make up for
lost thee.
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Mr. Bose emended the resolution. He said that there
was no use banking the question they were met to consider.
It was dee opinion of military men that one or two armies
could he landed in this country and that there wean° military
lore, ready to resist them. Civilians mutt in this met bow
to the opinion of military men. (Hear, hear.) He was not
going to abuse the Emperor Napoleon. Far from it. But
he mast tell them that the Emperor Napoleon had crested
the moot magnificent steam navy in the world. He did ma
give the Emperor Napoleon all the credit of creating that navy;
foe a consideration of the state of the French navy was a mat-
ter which bad been bequeathed to him by the French republic
of 1818. The French nstion had no need of so large a navy
to the protection of her commerce. She could only want it
for the purpom of aggression, and they knew that it Inman idea
of the first Napoleon diet all tee French navy should bacon-
, trued in the Channel. In addition to their navy the French
had en army of 600,000 men' and amongst them he regrettc
to say were pagan ooldiees from Africa who would cat one's
threat fora glees of wine. This oountry did not want war;
they wanted peace; but it the French government
forced war upon them, they would meet France with the
heath= of old times—with Agincourt and Cressy and
Polotkris and Trafalgar and the Nik, in their memoriam, and
they would do as their ancestors did—beat the French.
(Chasm.) They would rather receive French wines, velvets,
and site; but If France imported weapons of Will into
England, then they tuna meet them and beat them.
(Cheers.) Mr. Soots then urged on the young men to Join
the movement in person, and the old ta subscribe their
money.
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Thi Motion wag put and carried.
Mr. DALSTON moved a resolution, to the effect that the
best mode of organiaing such a force for the city of Waist-
minster, would be by local sections of ineopaniee is the
mental perishes, to be eit died in their own looditiee with
local officers of such rock as might be afterwards deter-
seised by the lord-lieutenant, and to be enema by the corps
themselves. He thought it would be advantageous to form
the corps by lord sections, as it would promote good feeling,
monomy, sad emulation.
Mr. Pantos seconded the motion, end hoped they would
not glop short at 1,000, but would raise 2,000 men if required.
(Cheers.)
Mr. MAI/MALL spoke in favour of the resolution. He
believed that the Emperor Napoleon was too clever, shrewd,
sad knowing, to attempt anything so desperate sod
rash as au thvaatou of this corutry. But Geeing
that he had on army of 600,000 men, be might be forced
against his will into such • course. Their best policy, there-
fore, wee to take ouch a *tap ma they were then met to pro-
mote. (Mom.)
The motion wee then put sad carried.
Mr. ANTIIO3IOII Moved the sent resiolation, to the effect
that own of the eectlins should be coosidered se forming
part of the voloniesr ride corps of the city of Westminster,
under the command of each sueerior Boor so might be ap-
pointed by the lord-lieutenant, or other proper authority.
Mr. BARTON seconded the 0201i00, which was unroinsmaly
adopted
Mr. M.P., congratulated the parish on the
numbers present and the enthumissm evinced. It augured
well for the future efficiency of the corps. He regarded this
movemeet as a peaceful and economical one, fur the stronger
the volunteer body at the commend of the goverment. eo
much less would it be neceenary tokenism the standing army.
He waggled to be able to inform thew that governinentcontan-

plated Providing all the mow for the volunteer nogg, which
would bring sdmimion into them within the range of rU
chimes of the imuniry. (Hear, hear.) He ormeincled by
moving the formation of • committee to oarry oat the object
of the meeting.
Mr. Lieu amonded the motion, wHob wry tarried.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman eirmiattaad the pro-
wading..

lIIILLAII'S MONTHLY CONCERTS. The tenth
arks of concerts at St. Martin's Hall, under the able ditto-
don of Mr. John Relish, commence to-morrow evening
with Handers ellmandre• Feast, and Professor Beoriates
delightful cantata, The May QUCCII. Honig the season will
be produced at those praiseworthy concerts a amid mass, by
Charles Cionnod (composed for the olebmiion of St. Cecilia's
day, in the church of St. Enstachs, Paris), and a new ors-
Melo, John the Baptut, compared by Johann Hager, of
Vienna.

THE FOG.—(THIS DAY.)—During the whole of
yesterday, and throughout this morning, a dense fog
*greed over the metropolis and Its suburbs—the southern
dinrkts suffering the most severely. It was found impos-
sible to wry on business in the City without the aided gee
or candles ; and much obstruction woe ceased to the teak
In the roadways of all the principal thoroughfare.. A new
bee Mao:Men* some of them of a serious nature, occurred
through persons coming into contact with vehicles, and being
run over—and several cases were tithes to the Westminster
and other hospitals. On the river a good deal of damage was
leaked amongst the shipping through vessels coming into
oollialon, but no thee of lose of life had last night been re-
ported. It is a singular fact that notwithstanding the dense-
ness of the fog, and the extreme cold in town, at Sydanham
the weather was bright and warm, and the Crystal Pathos
shone north in atilt, wonted beauty. The fog did not cesm
to extend In that direction beyond New-cross. At Upper
Holloway also the sun those brightly throughout the day.
Tai LATE FRAUD AT NOTTINORAII.—On Satur-
day morning, Michael Flood, deeerited aa an auctioneer sad
dealer In foreign fancy article., Shade-hill, Hatt'heiter, was
takes before the county magistrates, et the Shire hall Not.
tieghani, charged with obtaining a quantity of starch from
Messrs Thome. Hall end Sots, starch manufacturers. New
Lotto., near Nottingham, by means of fraud (the particu-
lars of which have already appeared in the Zayre:o).
It appeared from the additiosal evidence adduced that Mr.
Ralderate (the gentleman who Coat the halves of 8001. worth
of Beak of England notes), in his counting-house, in the
presence of hi. cashier, Mr. Brow), cut the notes in qua-
d" and the latter paid oeethalf of them into the Bank, sod
the other half were lust in September by Mr. Holdaate. The
prisoner, in reply to the charge, said he had no iMention od
fraud when be sent to Meson. Hall. The half of the note
he forwarded to that pattern= wee nne among several
others which he bad received from Mr. Faulkner, of Mac.
clashed, and hie wife had lost the other half of the same note.
The prisoner's solicitor (Mr Briggs), on behalf of hisclient
pleaded not guilty; the bench then committed him for trial at
the eissioes. Application was made to allow the prisoner
ball, bat the magistrates declined to axept it, and Flood was
forthwith wet to prison. . .

FRIGHTFUL BRUTALITY.—OR Thursday laat,
Charles and Williem Bennett, labourers in the employ of
Mr. Fisher, farmer, Soave were charged with mastoids(
Sash Wattle, of WilleebarOash. The propecutrie who wee
very lame from the injuries the had received, deposedi that
she met the two grinners on the previous day. at the Kent
Arms Ina, in charge of a wagon. She was going to Brom-
ley•green, to be housekeeper to • person there, end she
asked them if they would give her a ride in their waggon as
they were going In that direction. They consented, end
she started with them between three and four o'clock.
When near Kisganortb, they made indecent proposals to
her, to which she refused to secede, when they raid if the
would not she should get down and walk. They did not
stop the waggon, but obliged her to jump out; in mom-
pathos of which she fell, and ooe of the wheels passed over bet.
Dr. Carts, told the prisoner*, they had rendered themselves
Sable to a fine of 201. or ell month.' imprisonment; but he
sad Mr. Burr. had decided to mitigate it to a penalty of dos.
or three months' with hard labour. It was very fortunate for
them Mr. Gibbs sod the other gentlemen come up, or the
proassaarLa might have been seriously injured or killed, end
um would have bed to answer a ler beerier &arse. MS
were usable to pay, and wets cotstaittet—Essies