The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

r 'LIVENING, MAROS 9, 1858.

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P4tRIB, MONDAY EVIININO.

The rumour of Saturday that Lord.Malmesbury's
note would arrive here officially to-day is not con-
firmed ; and I feel no doubt, from various circum-
stances, that it will not be presented just yet.
The pamphlet containing the French government's
views of the state of the relations between France
and England, of which a great puff preliminary has
been made, will, I believe, appear to-morrow. The
author is M. de la Onerronniere, who, doubtless,
has settled his work in consultation with the Em-
peror. lam told that the pamphlet is conciliatory
in its tone, and contemplates with equanimity the
possibility of no conspiracy bill being passed if it
shall turn out, upon the prosecution of Bernard,
that the existing English legislation is sufficient.
The following vague article in this evening's Patrie
seems to show very clearly that nothing is settled :

What will the English government do t In what terms
should Lord Malreesburra answer to Count Welowskra
note be worded ? Hs this note been sent ? How will it be
received by the French government ? Such are the ques-
tions—the frivolous questions se we think—which the
foreign journals have been disowning for some days past.
These questions could only be Interesting if the change of
Wren, in England had in any way modified the situation,
end this we know is not the teas. We know that the new
Cabinet professes the same principles, the same sentiments
is regard to France as were entertained by the last. Its
very first declaration was one In favour of the allianos and it
ell such measures as might tend not only to preserve it intact,
but to make it still more solid. This is the point de depart
of Lord Derby's ministry. The language of it. principal

members leaves no doubt whatever on this heed.

The question remains es it was and awaits the
Wall solution. In our opinion, therefore, the forms, more or
leo new, under which this solution will be presented, and
may be adopted (sera presentee, et pourra etre disopt4),
cannot be a subject of uneasiness. We cannot participate ist
the impatience exhibited by the foreign journalstowhich we

allude. The programme of the new Cabinet is before the

world. We shell conlidently wait to see it executed in the
meaner the most conformable to the Interest. of the alliance,
the principle, of equity, and the special character of English
legislation.

The news that England had consented to the ex-
tradition of Hodge, the English subject arrested in
Piedmont as an accomplice of Orsini, is contradicted.
A correspondence from Turin says that the English
cabinet, being applied to by Piedmont, to know whe-
ther it would object to Hodge being gent to France,
gave an "evasive" answer.
It is taken for granted that the Court of Casse-
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tion will have rejected the appeal of Orsini, Pieri,
and de Radio, on Thursday next, and that they will
be executed on Friday morning. It is said that the
prospect of this execution is the reason for the post-
ponement of Count Walewski'a masked ball, which
WOA to have taken place on Thursday, the Mi
Caroms. It is remembered that when the four
sergeants of Rochelle were executed the procession
to the scaffold was met early in the morning by
maskers coming away from a owl ball at the Tuile-
ries. A song was made about this event, and it is
now wished to avoid the possibility of a similar
scandal.

An Englishwoman, the young wife of de Radio,
has arrived in Paris with her two children, to solicit
the clemency of the Emperor. Madame de Radio
has presented a petition to the Empress.
The Bourse has again relapsed into the state of
inaction which has prevailed for a long time.
Doubts of tho stability of the Derby cabinet, and a
fall of only / in Console, sufficed to paralyse the
market. The Rents fell 15c. for cash and sc. for
account, closing at 69fr. 23c. and 69fr. 20c. Mobi-
lier fell Bfr. 75c. The railways were much offered,
and fell from Mr. to 7fr. 50c.

A bill for amending the law of patents has been
presented to the Corps Legialatif, the principal
object of which is to relieve individual artisans who
work in their own lodgings and keep no shops, from
taxes on their inventions. It is said that no less
than 140,000 workmen will experience the benefit
of the proposed new law.
M. Emile 01livier has pined a great cause against
M. Berryer. The Imperial Court of Paris, presided
by M. DeLingle, pre judgment to-day in the long-
pending case of the Marquise de Guerry against the
Community of the Ladies of Picpus, which claimed
to be entitled to retain the whole of the Marquise's
property, as a member of the sisterhood. The court,
overruling the judgment of the Tribunal of the First
Instance, has ordered the community to refund the
sum of 475,000 fr.

read a second time bi a majority of 33 to 11. The
chief opposition was from the Roman catholic
members. Bit this bill the father of a child above
seven years of age, of sound mind, unable to read or
write, and not attending any school, is liable to be
tined double the amount of the school-fees, ample
provision being at the same time made for the
gratuitous schooling of children whose parents are
unable to provide instruction at their own expense.
The harvest, which was proceeding at the time
our advice' left, promised to be one of the most
abundant yet gathered in the colony. Reaping-
machines and steam threshing-machines were get-
ting into general use. Respecting the labour
market the Argus says :
lost now ell men of the labouring classes here are fully
engaged. Until reaping commenced there were more seek-
ing work than the farmers could provide for, and had not the
corn ripened more suddenly than was expected, the demand,
even now, in the midst of harvest, would have scarcely been
equal to the supply. It was anticipated that the harvest
would have been more protracted than usual, but the heat
and dryness of the weather during the last few weeks have
obliged the farmers to pat on all the extra hands they could
get, and make the most of the short time within which their
reaping operations must be concluded If not secured im-
mediately when fit for the trickle, the overripe yank quickly
shed. Much of the wheat is usually lost for went of suffi-
cient hands to cut it in time ; but no loss from this cause
will be experienced during the present season. All the men
available are fully employed, bet there is no deficiency
of Wear, unless it may be in a few of the outlying
districts, the requirements of which are but small, and are
likely to be quickly supplied after being publicly
known. Water is beginning to fail on the gold-fields, and
there is a daily increasing number of men obliged to leave
them, and seek employment elsewhere. Many of these are
accustomed to farm work, and are but too glad to go to any
part of the country in which their services may be in re-
gent. For a month or six weeks longer the harvest-field
will afford employment to all who are fit for that description
of work, after which period we much fear that the labour-
market will begin to exhibit a tendency to plethora. The
quantity of work offering will be decreasing as the
number of men seeking It will increase. The extra hands
paid off by the fanners will have nu other recourse than
the public works to be undertaken, end these are not
likely to be carried on very extensively. From
the goldfields they will be completely excluded
until the winter rain, have repleniahed the creeks and
reservoirs.
to=the extent of the public works that are likely
on during the autumn and winter, kis teepee-
sible es yet to form a very defillite opinion. Although at the
time we write the labour market here is in a most satisface
tory stabs, our readers in England who may think of coming
hither must not calculate on finding it so in • few months
hence. The national railroads, so long looked forward to as
a means of providing employment for all, are likely to disap-
point the general expectation in this respect, and our public
men are so slow in their movemen ,ta that the evilsof last
winter may be experienced again before they have decided
on taking measures for their prevention.
It is ,noticeable fact, that at the time our journals
at home are discussing more frequently than usual
" the great social evil of our large oities, the same
sad topic is exciting precisely the same attention,
and leading to the same remedial suggestions, at
Melbourne. Public meetings have been held in the
colony, and deputations have had interviews with
the governor, with a view to the adoption of means
for the repression of vice. The Argue states, that
female prat itution prevails throughout the Australian
colonies " to a frightful extent.
It has base proposed here (says the Argus) to establish a
Female Home for the accommodation of virtuous young
11.0011114 both on their drat arrival in the colony and during
their intervals of non-employment. But any measure' of
protection we can devise here will be of little avail if the
amorality of our female immigration be undermined before it
reaches our shores. And it did not require the positive evi-
dence adduced at the Melbourne meeting to establish the
fact which many previous revelations had made notorious,
that young female immigrants coming to thew shores are
subject to a succession of demoralising influences, lasting
during the whole currency of their voyage; that
they are exposed in the vast majority of cases
to a systematic conspiracy to corrupt them; and
that It le less than • miracle for a young girl, sent
out to these distant shores without matronly protection
during the voyage, to land here the same incorrupt, pure.
minded being that she was when she left her mother's
roof.
All female immigration for the future ought to partake of
a family character. if households cannot come out to Aus-
tralia undivided, it is at least essential that no daughter of •
family should be allowed to leave the shelter of the roof-tree
for this distant voyage without being placed under the pro-
tecting surveillance of some person of her own sex, of
character and discretion. We should not acquit our con-
sciences if we did not impress this matter upon the earnest
and anxious consideration of all persons in England asso-
ciated with schemes eel female emigration; and more than
upon ell others, on the mothers of the emigrants themselves.
The following is the commercial intelligence of
the latest date :

In • g our usual summary for transmission to Eng-
land we ve very little to say that is enoouragbig in a com-
mercial point of view. The gold market shares in the
general dullness, and although prices remain unchanged,
they ate entirely nominal—at 31. 14e. Bd. to 31. 16e. for
C.astleasaine and Sandhurst; 31. the. for Mount Korong
31. 16a Bd. for Dewily, Maryborough, Fiery Creek, and
Avoca; 31. 168. to 3/. 15s. 9d. for Ararat and Pleasant
Creek; 31. lee. to 3L 17s. 3d. for the Ovens; and 31.178.8 d.
for Ballarat.
The Money Market opeud for the pear as quietly as could
well be imagined. During the last two weeks in December
there had been some peasant, but the 4th instant having
pseud off well, and without any other stoppage than that
previously made known, of Mr. Nicholas Riordan, a very
perceptible lull ensued. The arrival of the mail with the
startling intelligence of the compelled suspension of the
Bank of England Charter Act, sad the existence of a mone-
tary crisis, more rapid in its growth and more widely spread
than any, perhaps, since 1826, had produced • great sensa-
tion in this- market. The fact that Mocks of imported goods
are greatly in excess of one wants, and that many Arms have
become hampered by the impcesibility of realising_ ls ad-
mitted on all hands; sad for some time put the banks have
been checking transactions, by the determination they have
shown to diminish the quantity of commercial paper held by
them. The effect of this is that speculation is prevented,
and the market preserved ia a more healthy condition than
during any former period of glut and low prices. There is
no scarcity of spare capital, as the land sales of the past
month amply testify, but for commercial purports there is
none available outside the banks. The last movement in
the monetary world came into ope at'on at the commencement
of the sew year. The whale tof banks now grant intermit
an deposit+ ; thou which have recently come into the move-
ment at the following rates :—On the monthly minimum
balance of current amounts, if not less than 2001., 2 per cent.
per annum; on sums deposited subject to three months'
notice of wittwawal, 3 per cent. per annum; on sums depo-
sited subject to sin months' notice, 4 per out. per annum
and on sums deposited subject to twelve months' notice, 6
par cent. per annum.
Exchange on England Is, at all the batiks, at par fur sixty
days' sight ; for amounts under 601., at I per emt. premium
for thirty days sight. Freights on gold, by direct steamers
or sailing vessels, Bid. per ounce, deliverable in London; In-
surance, li par cent.; by the Overland route, per cent.—
that is, 7d. per ounce as nearly as possible; insurance, to
ij per cent.
A very general and painful sensation was produoed on Fri.
day, the Bth lust., when the second editions of the Melbourne
journals made known to the public the suspension of the en'
tensile and old established house of Dennistoun's, of Glasgow.
The firm of Messrs. Denniatoun Brothers sad Co., of Mel-
bourne, although a distinct house from the Glasgow esta-
blishment, and the branches in London, Liverpool, New
York, and New Orleans, was thought at fleet to be involved,
and the resident partnere awaited the delivery of their ad-
vice' before determining what mune to adopt. On the mon-
*t following the delivery of the mail, they declared their
ability to meet all demands on them, and their Arm belief,
gathered from a perusal of their home advice., that the posi-
tion of the Melbourne house would not be compromised.

SYDNEY.

lo the Sydney Morning Herold of January 9,
we road :

.
The first reeponsible parliament of New South Wales is
dissolved. It wee en utter impossibility for the mieirMy
successfully to carry no the government. Their Lend Bill,
the cardinal measure in the Wads of the people at proem;
they were compelled to withdraw, while the sew Aseemeasit
Bill, on which they depecded for a large amount of reunion
was defeated by • majority of two, The division wee
followed by an adjournment, sabseqinaily by the
prorogation of the assembly, and finally by its dis-
solution. This step, though It did not take the
artistry by eurprise, hu crested no small amount
of complaint against the ministry. First, became it was
with reason believed that the dissolution might wail have
stood ever rata the Electoral Bill was pissed; and second,
became the several measures of urgenoy, each es the Muni-
cipalities Bill and the District Courts Bill, wblch were so ad-
vanced In their stages through the *Water., that they
might without any inconvenience have been completed before
the legislature wee diasolved. The abrupt manner, too, in
which the eseembly was dismissed, without • word of en-
case or apology from the minister, mated gnat
Maas.
Tb• iteciteniest now is as to the remelt of the new also-
Hose, which will commence neat week and terminate about
the end of February.
On Wedesaday the new Faitheap_wee opened—a
greet met in the sisals of the coloey. This eerminety was
performed by Sir William Davison, at seam His esaelleicy
was attended by the primed* enure of the montine, and
there wry a hag* and brilliant asemblege of ladies and
(seamen, with tbe rosemary guard of Mem outside.
Beet members d the mauler body ea the committee
bad 'data by invitation to assist at this mentooy
were she present. Titan were eddrame tram the Fa-
change Compeer sad from the Climber of COMMarelle with
• mitebie relay front his excellasoy. There eves also
ed.:IMM, end very able cute, from the Mush of Pews