The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-03 00:00:00

TO TEI IDITOII OF Ttil 11111111111.

iourncrticeoftiiTzarl of Dundonald's
lamented death, you refer to his proposed expedient for
destroying a hostile fleet at one blow. I beg to recal your
attention to one of the earl's letters on that subject, pub-
lished in the Tina during the late Maims was. After
observing on the refusal of the Admiralty authorities to give
hie invention 'a trial, he announces that, should they con-
tinue thus obdurate, he will disclose his plan to our (then)
trusty ally, the Emperor of the French. Now was Lord Dun-
donald misled by a chimera of his own brain ? If not,
and if be kept his word, he baa deposited a fearful
power in the heeds of Napoleon 111. No one, we are well
aware, can keep a secret better them that inscrutable poten-
tate. Well, then, did Lord Dundonald know of a way to
indict wholesale destruction on the /teens or 'oda:used an
enemy, and did he, disgusted with English official stupidity,
disclose the secret to the sovereign whose conduct has lately
given us so much uneasiness? It is to be hoped that the
lamented earl, who would never have knowingly betrayed
his country, has left it in the power of some one to answer
W questions. "D MACE, NOT DEFIANCE."
November 2, 1860.

The Ceylon branch of the Asiatic Society ban
elected Sir Edward Cressy, the chief justice, as vice-patron.
On taking the chair, he said :—" Although my own literary
pursuits have been chiefly directed to the histories and
languages of Europe, I have always taken a deep interest in
Oriental ethnology, and in the historical evideucea which
the literature and the architectural monuments of the East
supply, as to the early habitations and the movements of
the human race."

We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that
farther experimenta with Profemor Way's electric light
will shortly take place before the members of the Ordnance
select committee, prior to a report on the subject being laid
before the government.

Among the deaths of the week is that of Capt.
Maoonochis, inventor of the Mark System of Prison
Discipline, and the author of many tracts and papers on
that Nubject.
Many members of the suite attending the Prince
Regent at Warsaw have been decorated by the Russian
Emperor, and others have received valuable presents. The
edjetanta received the insignia of higher grades in the
orders already conferred on them, and Privy Councillor
Mire, the surgeon to the Prince Regent, and Court
Councillor Borck were presented by the Car with muff-
boxes, either bearing his likeness or with the imperial
cipher in brilliants.
Two commissioners have arrived in this country
from the Sultan of Moroooo, on a special mission.
The labours of peace (travanx de la paix), so
called by the Emperor Napoleon in his address to the
Corps Legialatif, are about to commence with the next
session of that body. The Minister of State is indefatigable
in forwarding to the Council of State plans and drafts
of bills relating to great works of public talk/.
The Emperor, during his late journey, decreed of
himself the execution of sever.d considerable works,
both in the lately &named provinces and in other parts of
France through which he passed. All than plan bars
been the object of profound study. so that the approaching
session of the Corps Legislatif is expected to be one of the
i most remarkable in remits of any which has occurred since
the proclamation of the empire.
There is to be a grand exhibition of Italian pio-
tures in Florence next summer, in aid of which the chief
Italian cities are to contribute large sunned money.