The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-31 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31.

THE recent decree of the Emperor of the
FRENCEI in favour of the free importation of foreign
corn and flour during the next twelve months is
framed in a manner calculated to suggest ideas of
a change of policy wider and more lasting than
that which a prevision merely against a casual defi•
ciency of food implies. It is not the first time
that French ports have been peremptorily thrown
open by command of the Executive Government to
guard against the danger of impending scarcity;
but it is the first time, we believe, that the dif-
ferential dues on foreign shipping employed in the
grain trade have been wholly superseded for so
long a period as a whole year. Under other cir-
cumstances, this suspension of the Navigation
Laws of France in a matter so important
as that of corn might not, perhaps, de-
serve particular remark, save in so far se
it might be regarded as furnishing an
additional illustration of the error and evil of the
exclusive system. We cannot forget that in 1840
a precisely similar course was recommended by
Lord DISBY and his friends, as the best
means of reconciling the exigencies of temporary
famine with the permanent maintenance of agri-
cultural protection. Sir Mincer PEEL appreciated
clearly the consequences of such a measure, and
refused to adopt it because he foresaw that in a
country like ours, with a free Parliament and a
free press, free trade in corn for twelve months
would inevitably make itself free trade in corn for
ever ; and he wisely and honourably declined to
be a party to accomplishing a great good by means
of a great political swindle. The political con-
dition of the two countries, however, makes all the
difference in the moral probabilities incident to
such an act of administrative power as that in
question ; and few will be found to contend
that NAPOLEON 111., if ho lives and reigns
as Imperial master of France in August, 1861,
may not if he pleases restore any differential
duties on corn, and differential duties on the ship-
ping wherein it is borne, provided no serious defi-
ciency in next year's harvest shall appear immi-
nent. Were the present ruler of France a
mere royal jobber, with no higher ambition
than that of politically living from hand to
mouth, and making as much money as possible
each half-year out of the business of governing,
we should attach no permanent significance to the
decree we have referred to, and we should antici-
pate from it no other results than those of a cer-
tein but short-lived good. Many things tend just
now to create in men's minds a different impres-
sion regarding the designs and purposes of the
thoughtful and taciturn Chief of the French govern-
ment. Everybody understands that to his indivi-
dual conviction of the superior policy of Free
Trade, rather than to any general progress of
opinion made in that direction, is attributable the
Commercial Treaty of January last ; and every-
body understands that in a ritime whose stability
depends so much on the permanent sequin/cones
of those who are governed in the general tenour
of the acts of Government, it can never seem ex-
pedient, and can never be so, to stir controveraisi
and unsettle established usages, unless there he a
prospect of substituting another and • better
system likely to prove more creditable to its
authors, and more popular with the many. For
the moment it cannot be doubted that the Euraaon
incurs a considerable amount of odium amongst
the classes interested in monopoly by the mea-
sure. he has taken to reduce it within bounds ;
and the practical benefits which the COIDEN
Tivaty are calculated to afford eventually have
hardly yet become palpable to the naked eye of
labour. At such a juncture it is hardly con-
ceivable that the Imperial resolution would have
lightly been taken to suspend not only the
eliding scale of duties on grain for the space of a
twelvemonth, but aloe the differential charges on
Mesh, American, and other vessels freighted
therewith- Nor can we persuade ourselves that
the additional jealonly with which the latter part
of the decree lately published is likely to be re-
garded would have been provoked just now, mime
the step so taken were one of a series in a peat
though gradual change of policy silently predates,
mined. In • word, we venture to entertain
the hope that we have now before us the com-
mencement of an improved system of commercial
intercourse in shipping as well se in manhandle ;
and that the relaxation now panted to vessels
employed in the corn trade, no matter what flag
they sail under, will ere long be followed up by
similar measures regarding ships employed iu other
branches of commerce.

In the Report of the Select Committee on
Men haut Shippmc, to ‘4lmh we have recently
called attention, the anomalies of the existing

system of French Navigation Laws are strikingly
illustrated, and the international policy of their
removal is strongly urged. The British ship-
owners who carry on the present restricted and
scarcely tolerated intercourse with the colonies of
France, Spain, and Portugal, find their ships
placed at an immense disadvantage in the
unequal competition which they have to encounter,
while they have the mortification to see foreign
ships resort to our own colonies, and secure
much higher freights than our own ships when
chartered to a port in Europe. From the Mauri-
tius to Europe, a French ship, enjoying the option
of the British or French markets, obtains a
freight for sugar of 3/. 10s. per ton, while English
ships are taking cargo at the low rate of 10s. per
ton. "It is very galling," says an extensive ship-
owner, to " see my ship lying in Calcutta getting
" 15s. a ton, and a French ship lying alongside
" getting 605., 705., and 80s. a ton ; and the
" Committee cannot but express an opi-
" nion that this is • state of things
" which requires that every effort of the Govern-
" meat should be directed to get it placed upon a
" more equal and satisfactory footing." The pro-
fits of the French shipowners arising out of this
system of differential dues is estimated at not less
than 300,0001. a year, the greater part of which
is paid no doubt by French consumers in the shape
of the enhanced price of foreign produce : and it
is also unquestionably true that if the trade were
thrown open, no such exorbitant freights as those
now netted by the mercantile marine of our neigh-
bours would be obtainable either by us or them,
the inevitable tendency of competition being to
equalise as well as to reduce profits : it is, never-
theless, true that a substantial grievance would be
removed, and great and unrequited loss to the
shipowners of both countries would in future be
obviated. The sagacious arbiter of French inter-
ests cannot fail to recognise the irrefragable logic
of those who contend for general competi-
tion as opposed to exceptional privilege. The
self-interest of his dynasty concurs with the sug-
gestions of abstract reasoning, and prompts him
continually to prefer the comfort and well-being
of the many whom he governs to the factitious
enrichment of the few. Some few shipowners
of Marseilles and Havre may grumble at
the premonitory symptoms of remedial change, as
our own old friends of St. Michael's-alley were
wont to do previous to the repeal of our Naviga-
tion Laws in 1850. But Naeoison 111. has
nothing to fear from their rll-humour if he entitles
himself to tell thirty-five millions of Frenchmen
that he has initiated a policy which secures for
them permanently the cheapest freights for corn,
sugar, coffee, wool, cotton, tobacco, and all the
other articles of foreign produce they consume,
and that he has thereby permanently rednced
the cost.

Ut Court.

BALMORAL, Auorerr 28.

Her 31ajesty, accompanied by Princtea
and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Bung, left Alt-na-
Guiwich yesterday morning, Rod returned to the Castle in
the evening, having ridden round by Loch ('nllater.
The Prince Consort went out deer-stalking, and returned
to the Caatle in the evening.
The Prince and Princess of Leiniogen arrived at the Castle
yesterdly on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Consort.
Lady Churchill has relieved Lady Macdonald as Lady in
Waiting to her Majesty.

They; wan no addition to her Majeaty'A dinner party.

Despair-hes for the Governor of Caoa la were sent yester-
day from the Colonial•ofrice.

The Prince Dori* Pamphili, accompanied by the
Rev. W. Cala Ms left Itaarigy's Hotel for Ostend.
Lord Panmure and the Hon. Mime Mettle have
arrived at Claridge /2 Hotel from Wiesbaden.

The Prima.; Frederic William wax " churched"
on Sunday bid.

The Iciness and Princensee of Piedmont, includ-
ing the Duchess of Genoa, arrived at Como on the 28th,
and were received by the population with great enthusiasm.
Kosauth'a sons, one aged 19, the other 18, are now
at Milan, and are shortly to meet their father ►t Turin.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, FRIDAY.

An appropriate monument is now in preparntion,
to be erected at St. Paul's Church, Penrance, to the
memory of old Dolly Pentreath, who is said to be the last
person who 'poke the Cornish language. This will bear a
suitable inscription, and is, conjointly, being prepared by
the vicar anti Prince Lucien Bonaparte
The Nazione of Florence announces that it has
received an order from the government to suppress the
Anne of Savoy which it bean on its first page, until it has
applied for and obtained permission to use them. The
Nazione adds that, since it knows of no law prohibiting
the use of those arms, it does not intend to comply with
the injunction.

Also that the promulgation of these statutes
should not in any way prejudice the right of the
diet to claim changes and modifications of proved
necessity and utility.
The autograph letter should likewise announce
the immediate promulgation of the electoral law
both as regards the formation of the provincial diets,
and the definitive constitution of the enlarged
council of the empire.
The ministers hope that such an autograph letter
would prevent political debates in the Reichsrath,
and allow the government to tranquilly close the
session with the increased confidence of the
country.

"Letters state," *aye the Courtitutiound, "that
Prince Oiovanelli has purthaaed from the Duke of Modena
a east estate on the banks of the Adige ; also that an agent
of hi royal higimeas is now at Padua, charged to sell all
the real property he pastimes in Lombardy and Venetia.
These circumstances appear to indicate that the duke has
abandoned all hope* of returning to Italy."
A letter from Beyrout of August 16, from a
special correspondent of the Prase, who passed through
Eopt on his way to Syria, relates the following :—" The
Viceroy displays great energy in favour of the Christians.
Pour ulemaa of Caine her* preached in the Mehemet Ali
mosque the doctrine that the Christians ought to be eater-
! minated, the viceroy asked the governor, who cares to
I give him an account of the affair, what had become of the
guilty partial. On being told that they were iu pries, his
highness rcp'ied, ' I am glad to bear it ; had it been other-
' vise, you should go to prime yourself.' He them gave
orders that the four ulemas should be strangled, and they
were executed accordingly at owe."

VENICE.
TRIESTE, FRIDAY.

Nonni ATIASTIC TiLlmt•rs.—A letter from
Captain Allen Taw& dated Haldersvig, August 7th, states
that the lox was en the pat of starting for looked altar
• soccowtal warm of the Parbe Isles. All wan oo board.
Tan P,OTAI. Clll,lllllS.—The public, and espe-
cially the Meade at tho N parsons wrecked in the above
ship, will ho wary to hats that the Ray. Stephen Hughes,
the * good elergymia of Llawalga, has been confined
to big bad foe vow wooli+ hams severe attack of rhen-
ium& foyer, brought as by ausliweed exposure daring the
bolomat winter of the pent year, in the dreary bay el
Moratins. A oorroursolluet, who called to thank the worthy
risqyaina tar his Mod attentions to the wish,. of the
widow of the liwaratad Dr. Hatch, the surgeon of the
Royal Metter, whose maim we interred at Llanafigs,
heard Smith that regret which he feels will he participated
in by • sympithir—eg public generally. He was informed
that • body —a female, with a weddiorring on her Inger
had been recovered so reeently ea • month ago.
A uctrzer Coins, he, —The finding at gold, silver,
sal coooppppeerr case, ornessents, and other relics, having led
iershie confusion rad diwittisfa-tii.ii •llloei the
ladies and those debiting a right to them, her
Wjrei ty's government have issued, through the Secretary
of State for the Home Department, the following Instruc-
tions :—" Whitehall. Aug: 27. —Sir, —I am authorised by
Secretary Sir George Lewi. to inform you that the Lords
Oammiseionen d the Treasury hare been pleased to autho-
rise the mimed to Anders al eeriest coins, gold or silver
ornameets, and other Mks of antiquity is Uland and
Wale., of the actual mho of the articles no the same
Twin; delivered up foe behoof of the crown, and I am to
rtvirst that you will instruct the police offiners of your
county 4. gire notice of the instructions of her Majesty'.
goverunwrit, and to inform all persons who shall hereafter
make discoveriee of aay each articles that on their deliver•
beg them to the sheriff they will receive from the tromory
rewards equal in amount to the full intrinsic value of the
articles. In all cases where it shall come to the Wielded.*
of the police that each 'Akio. have been foond, .sd that
the pemetes having foiled them refuse or neglect to deliver
turn,Xll' fleare Taisho devirm Oust me: wires may be
lawn for their recovery, awl that information may be for-
warded to him. —I &le, sir, your obedient servant, G. (*Live..
Tu the Chief evesidibie at --
."

The Austrian government, foreseeing an attack
on Venetia, is most actively carrying on the works
for the completion of a branch line to connect the
Venetian railways with those of Germany. On the
sth of September the line from Nabresina to Udine
will be inaugurated.

This railway will enable Austria to transpot a
considerable force to Venetia in a few days.

THE CALLERIAN EXPEDITION.
XESBLVA, AUGCBT 26 (Yu Masasuzze).
Colonel De Flotte, the French republican, and
one of Gartlaldi's officers, was killed in the an-
ent before Reggio. Garibaldi ordered
splendid obsequies in his honour.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Avo. 22 (vil MAIBUILLINS).

. , .
Notwithstanding tee representations or tae am-
bassadors, iturchul Puha remained at Constanti-
nople until K de Lavalette again insisted and ob-
tained his departure, in order that he might be
brought to trial in Syria.
The Mussulman inhabitants are assuming a
threatening attitude. The garriao• has beenin-
creased, but the soldiers' pay IS still in arrears.
According to advice. from Syria General Beau-
fort, in a proclamation, had prohibited the Maro-
nites from renewing the conflict.

THE EXPRESS, PAY EVE Nf"f:\lNG, AUGUST 1, 1860.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
THE JOURNEY OF THE EMPEROR
NAPOLEON.
MADRID, &tram. 30.

The Emperor of the French, on hie return jour-
ney from Algeria, will atop at Barcelona, where he
wisher to have an interview with Queen Isabella 11.

It is asserted that the ministers have agreed to
propose the following resolution for adoption by
his Majesty, namely :
That at the opening of the first full sitting of the
Reicharath the President Archduke Renier should
read to the assembly an autograph letter of the Empe-
ror. In this letter, after having stated the sincerity of
his intentions to give satisfaction to the legitimate
wishes of the people, the Emperor should promise
to take into serious consideration the views ex-
pressed in the two reports of the committee of 21.
But while awaiting a means to reconcile the oppo-
site tendencies of the majority and minority of that
committee, the Emperor, in order not to adjourn
the political regeneration of the empire, con-
siders that in his sovereign capacity he should
grant the statutes of the provincial diets,
and fix beforehand their precise privileges,
thus assuring and guaranteeing the autonomy of
each province.

Lady George trey went no further than:ltio Janeiro, but
returned to Seemed in the Boecawen.
Sir Frederick Grey and lady left for Englead on the 6th
ultimo.

Admiral Keppel had gone on a cruise in the Brisk shag
the east coast, taking Neilson and the sources of the Nita
expedition, which arrived in the Forte, and a party from
the Cape, which had volunteered to moist. The expedition
would land at Zanzibar.

Parliament wee prorogued on the 17th. In the sesaion,
which lasted eighty days, thirty-one bills had been passed,
and nearly a million sterling voted.
The excavation* for a breakwater in Table Bay had been
commenced.

A telegraph line from Cape Town to the frontier would
be laid down next year.
The Natal railway bad been opened.
The Free state and 'Fransviud were tranquil and
Pip•

One hundred Mapal Kaffir hunters had been manacred in
Zululand.

The frontier liters were unsettled, and horse-stealing
had increased to an alarming extent.
No news of Dr. Livingstone's expedition.
The missionesise in Nosilikatees had been badly treated.
Mr. Moffatt was daily expected from that country.
Business at the Cape was exceedingly slack. Import■
were very dull.
The only vessel which had cleared with exports was the
nail steamer Norman. Shipments of wine were withheld.
Salt was in great demand.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(rim( ova OWN

PARIS, TIOBSDAT EVINING.

MINI a

Count de Morny, who was expected to make a
speech at the opening of the Council-General of the
Puy de Dame, did not appear there ; he has gone
on an excursion. At the Council-General of the
Bits Rhin, MarshalMagnan said he had it from the
Emperor's own mouth that peace would be main-
tained. But he added—and the addition manifestly
qualifies the first assertion—that it would be con-
trary to the intentions and wishes of the Emperor
if the good relations between the powers should be
broken. The declaration in this form cannot be
called reassuring, for it is quite certain that when-
ever the Emperor goes to war he will always say
that it is not his fault. Marshal Niel has been
also making what is called a pacific speech at Tou-
louse ; but he says, quite naturally for a French-
man, and quite rightly, too, if his words have no
double meaning, that it is "in the friendship and
not in the impotence of France that the guarantees
of peace must now be sought." Unfortunately the
distrust of France, admitted and complained of by
the Emperor himself, is at this moment greater than
it has been at any moment since the battle of
Waterloo ; and, therefore, the assertion that peace
will not be broken if all the powers remain friendly
with her, means very little.
M. de Martino, son of the Neapolitan minister,
is announced as having arrived at Marseilles (by
this time he must be in Paris), with despatches for
the French government.
At the Bourse the Rents, after trifling fluctua-
tions, closed with some firmness (attributed to
Count de Persigny's speech), at 68fr. 10c. and
68fr. 5c., with a rise of 10c. and sc. Mobilier
rose 3fr. 75c. Railways, in the, quotations of
which there was no change worth noting, were on
the whole rather weaker.

lam very sorry to hear, from a source which I
fear ix good, that Lieutenant de Flotte, of the
French navy, member for Paris in 1850, was killed
in Calabria (at Solano), while charging at the head
of one of Garibaldi's column~

THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO SYRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Auou 13.

The curtain has risen for the first act of this
drama, and how it will end is a question no one
can foresee. There are two perils against which it
is difficult to guard • firstly, the explosion of
Moslem fanaticism in the interior on the news of
the arrival of Christian soldiers ; and, secondly,
the danger that the Christians, thinking they have
now a chance of doing so with impunity, may be
tempted to retort on the Moslems the insults and
petty injuries they have so long endured as au in-
ferior and despised race. Arrant cowards in face of
the peril they have provoked, nothing is more
probable than that they should be braggarts and
oppressors when they feel themselves protected by
men who can and will fight. The particulars of the
convention, though doubtless known to you in
England, have not reached ne, but we carry out
the first troops that have been embarked from
France. The Borysthbne was to have sailed for
Syria on Sunday, August 5, but an hour before she
was to start, and when they were getting up steam, a
telegraphic despatch came to delay her departure
until Monday morning, and at the same time an
order was sent to the 16th Chasseure at Toulouse to
proceed at once to Marseilles and embark for Bey-
rout. They arrived during the night, and soon
after eight on Monday morning began to march on
board. In less than two hours we had shipped
450 men, the colonel, and other officers, and the
medical staff, with all their camp material, the re-
mainder of the regiment leaving by another boat,
which was to start on Tuesday. The steamer being
already full of merchandise, part had to be dis-
charged ; but although they succeeded in stowing
the rifles and knapsacks in the hold, a mountainof
luggage before and abaft the saloon, which is on
deck, wofully limited the space available for the
troops and emend-elms passengers. But the
French soldier has notoriously a marvel-
lous tact at packing himself up cleverly ;
I and somehow they all managed to stow
themselves and to avoid confusion. Happily
the weather has been favourable, saving a heavy
squall of rain on Tuesday, which drenched every-
thing exposed to it, including a good many of the
soldiers ' • but the sun came out, they hung their
blankets up to dry, and it only appeared to afford
matter for jokes, and of these there seems an inter-
minable source. Every little inconvenience, and
the ingenious contrivances for counteracting it,
affords material for fun, and we have two or three
loueties on board, who are inexhaustible sources of
amusement. Every evening ono or other gathers a
little knot round him, and with songs, jokes, and
drolleries, keeps up a constant gaiety. The officers
and passengers gather on the roof of the saloon and
form the boxes, the older soldiers mount on the pile
of baggage immediately below us, and the others
lie about the deck, representing the pit and gallery.
The performance commences when we have dined
and continues until about ten, during which
time we are kept in almost continual
laughter, the amusements being varied by some
capital singing. The superior officers, those of the
medical staff especially, are very agreeable, intelli-
gent men ; but the angular delusions prevalent
among them as to Beyront and its capabilities, and
as to the relative merith of Druses and Maronites,
are rather amusing. They have taken for gospel
the dreams of Lamartine and other poetisers of the
East, and for literal facia the acoountsof the Drnse-
Maronite war published in the French papers. But
after the absurdities which have appeared in the
leaders of one of your contemporaries, I can scarcely
be surprised at the errors they fall into ; but as we
happen to have on board two gentlemen intimately
acquainted with the country and with the whole
progress of the war, the French officers have learned
many things which have somewhat astonished
them, and which have shown them that they
will have an extremely and difficult part to play in
Spia. We have also three correspondents of the
PWnch press on board, one of whom, a big, coarse-
looking man, with a red ribbon always exhibited,
had clearly made up his mind to lay down the law
on all matters, and with a voice as big as himself,
the first time we met at breakfast, he began en-
lightening us all as to Syria and Syrian album
Ignluckily, he started by announcing • personal
acquaintance with the country and people, but soon
I convinced us, who had been in Syria, that his
knowledge was derived solely from books and
newspapers. We lost no time in pouring a broad-
side of counter-statements into him, which silenced
his fire for good and all, and put an end to what
threatened to become a nuisance. I suspect from his
wild notions about England and Christianity in the
e-st, that he belongs to that solemn sort of Chari-
vari—the Gazette de France. We expect to meet at
Beyrout other troops, which were to embark at
Toulon on Monday, and a battalion of Zonaves
who were to start from Algeria, so Beyrout will
hardly know itself, and our arrival will create im-
mense excitement among the Christians, native
and European. The letters from thence of the 19th
state that the arrival of Fuad Pacha had put an
end to the panics which seemed to have seized all
classes since the massacres at Damascus, but busi-
ness was still very stagnant, a state of things which,
however, must cease per force on the arrival of the
French troops. The occupation will be a godsend
for the traders of BeyrouL and Damascus, putting
into circulation an amount of money which
will go far to make up for the losses they
may suffer from the ruin or bad faith of many
of their debtors. Some of the French officers
had embarked so hurriedly that they had not time
to complete their outfits, and having been some-
what disabused as to their notions of Beyrout and
its resources, they were naturally. desirous of ob-
taining the various small conveniences of which
they stood in need at Malta. Au order however,
had been given them that no one shouldi go on
shore at Malta in uniform, and it was very amusing
to see the borrowing of plain clothes that took
place, so as to enable almost all to avail themselves
of the opportunity. The reason of this order I can-
not conceive ; some said it was to conceal the de-
parture of the expedition from the British authori-
ties, supposed to be adverse to it ; others thought
it was to avoid the chances of any affront to
the officers in the russinned state of hostile feeling
existing among our troops towards the French
army. One thing I can answer for—none of the
officers visited the fortifications, confining their
researches to St. John's Church, the armoury, and
an hotel where they could breakfast. We were all
fairly roasted out of Malta in about two hours, and
glad to get on board the steamer, where at least
we had shade and the sea breeze. I was glad to
find that the Latin inscription on the guardhouse
opposite the palace, a monument of bad taste, had
escaped the notice of most of our fellow-passengers.
What must foreigners think of the statement that
"In 1815 the love of the Maltese and the unani-
mous voice of Europe gave the Maltese islands to
great and invincible Britain " ! The sooner we
scrape this out the better—the batteries of Valletta
are much more to the purpose. The affection
of the Maltese is just now prompting them to
spread the report that we have fomented this
Thsise-Maronite war, protecting and encouraging
the Druses, with a view of destroying all forms of
Ohristianity in the Lebanon, except Protestantism.
They add, that we have refused to aid in putting
the outbreak down, and pointed with exultation to
the French crusaders we have on board. The de-
parture of our fleet for Syria counted for nothing—
it was only to protect our commercial interests, and
this is a specimen of the Roman catholic versions
of our policy in Turkey. The destination of the
French troops on arriving at Beyrout is not known,
as it will depend on the instructions of General
d'Hautpoul, who will probably be there as soon as
we shall, but it is thought they will at once be
directed on Damascus.

BEYROUT, Aunuer 15.
At Alexandria we found many of the inhabitants
of Beyrout waiting to see the effect produced by the
arrival of the French troops before daring to
return, and a boat-load of the family of the Micah*
came on board to visit the officers and urge them
to avenge the Christians. They were lodged in one
of the palaces of the Viceroy, and numbers of other
refugees were housed by the Lazarists and others
at Alexandria ; but there wai; an unmistalceable
feeling, very like contempt, when the French wi-
thers saw these broad-shouldered young men, who

had fled without striking a blow. At Jaffa, where
we found the Victor Emmanuel, a tine two-decker,
the sullen looks of the Moslems corresponded with
their hints that the ships would not always be
there ; and it appears that the officers in command
of the little Turkish garrison had been at the head
of a conspiracy to massacre the Christians ; as a
punishment, it is said, that he is to go to Acre.
Altogether, the arrival of the French troops and
the foreign ships of war seems to have exasperated
the lower class of Moslems, and very serious cow.
plications may easily arise. On leaving Jaffa
the Victor Emmanuel dipped her ens 4n, gave us
some hearty cheers, and her band played " Partant
pour la Syne "—a politeness which completely won
the hearts of even the most anti-English of the
officers on board, and elicited a apontaneous clap-
, ping of hands from the soldiers. The circumstance
' was very warmly alluded to in a speech made during
a little fête on board, in honour of the Ifith
August ; and it is to be ho pn.l and desired that the
feeling may be maintained here at Beyrout, where
we found a large fleet of men-of-war, and Moslems
looking at them with anything but pleasant eyes.
How the French troops have been received I must
tell you hereafter, but it is said that at Damascus
Fuad Pacha finds great difficulty in repressing the
fanatical spirit existing there, in which case we may
look for a movement of French troops in that direc-
tion, as soon as reinforcements arrive.

THE STEPNEY MURDER.

INQUE3T.-(THLS DAY.)

The iuquest touching the death of Mary Emaley
was resumed this morning by Mr. J. Humphreys, the
coroner, at the Railway Tavern, Globe•road, nearly opposite
the scene of the murder. There was a much fuller attend.
ance of the general pablic than on the previous occasion,
when it was confined to the witnesses, the police, the jury,
and those who were otherwise officially connected with the
inquiry
Mr. Rose, the solicitor of the deceased under her marriage
settlement, and Mr. Ratcliffe, the solicitor to the trustees
under the late Mr. bailey's will, again attended to watch
the proceedings.
After the arrival of the coroner, upwards of half an hour
was occupied in a private consultation between the coroner
and the police who have charge of the case, before the
court was opened.
The jury having answered to their names, the coroner
called

Mrs. Caroline Barnes, of 17, Grove-road, who deposed as
follows—l live at Lauriston Cottage, opposite the de.
sessed's house. On Monday morning, the 13th of August,
I saw deceased making her bed on the first floor. I saw
nothing else remarkable during the day. The next morn.
ing I saw some one moving paper-hangings, and concluded
that it was Mrs. Ernsley. I did not observe who it was ; L
took more notice of the paper than of the person. It
was about twenty minutes to 10. Ido not know
whether the person was • male or • female.
was standing at the time by the scullery window in my
own house, which commanded • view of the deceased's
house. Mr. Emslefs bedroom window was not open. I saw
the front room window of the top floor moved up by a hand.
At the same time a observed a slight piece of paper with a
red pattern hanging down outside tho window. I did not
notice on that day and on the two following days whether
or not that window ren.ainod open. It was not usual for
the top window to be open. Ido not remember seeing any;
one go into the house on Monday night or come out on
Tuesday morning.
By a juryman—l saw no one enter the house between
Monday and Friday. Several people knocked at the door.
W illiam Smith, a boy living in the service of Mr. Lind.
sill, lineudraper, of Mile-end-road, deposed—l received
directions from my master to call on Mrs. Emsley on 31on.
day, the 13th inst. I did not call then, but I did call on
Tuesday morning, at about half-past Bor 9 o'clock. I bad
called before about three week.. previously. Mr. Lindsill told
me Mrs.Emsley was in the habit of going out and leaving the
house without anybody in it,as she lived alune,and said I must
go at a particular time. I went with a bill. I knocked
several times, but got no admission. I looked through the
keyhole ou the ground floor, and I saw that the back-door
was open, and 1 could see right into the garden. I had
never boon inside the house. When I knocked I looked up
to the window to see if anybody was there. 1 saw that the
blind of the window over the door was drawn. I noticed
that none of the windows were open. I heard nobody, and
saw nobody. 1 again applied between 8 and 9in the even.
ing. 1 knocked, but could not gain admission, and went
hack to my master.
Archibald Mann deposed—l live at No. 13, Globe.
lane, and keep an apple-stall at the corner of Grove.
road. I knew the deceased. I think I maw her
on Monday evening, the 13th instant, between
6 and 7 o'clock, passing my stall I did not see her
return. There was • man with her; Ido not know hie
name, but I had previously seen them together; be worked
for her. I saw him several times going to the house. He
told me he was going there. On this occasion the man
came back in about an hour afterwards with • truck
having a stove in it ; he appeared to be going to her house.
To the best of my recollection this was on the Monday pro.
vious to her decease. I should know him again if I saw
him ; in fact, I know him well.
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Mr. Richard Farnynough—l reside next door to the house
of the deceased_ I knew her by sight very well, and have
often spoken to her. I remember roe evening about the
13th August my dog barking at night. I heard it more
than once. The first time, on Monday, 13th, from midnight
till about 4 a.m. I did not get up that night, but I took
notice of it notwithstanding, fur the dog does not
usually bark so much. I beard no none or any
thing to attract my attention beyond the barks
ing of the dog. 'rho dog barked again on the
following night (rein about the some hour to the same hour.
I gut up on that occasion and opened the front window, and
looked out. 1 saw nothing whatever to attract attention.
The barking induoed me to put in security my own
valuables, and place some money I had received from the
Westminster Bank that duty in a trunk, which I placed
under my bed. I had some conversation with the deceased
about the sale of Ler paper-hangings. That was
I should think about four or live days or a
week before the murder. She offered the paper
to me at prime cost, but I refused, telling her if I should
want any I would pay hero per centage. I told her I had
a house at Newport, in Shropshire, and I would write to my
tenant to ask if he wanted his rooms papered. " How long
has he been in the house r she asked. I replied eight or
ten years. "Don't you write," she said, "for it will be in-
troducing a bad practice, and he will be wanting the house
Tapered again." (A laugh.) I took her advice, and did
not write, arid I felt much obliged to her, for the tenant
has since papered the rooms at his own cost. (Laughter.)
By the jury—The dog was not tied up, but running loose
about the house. I have had some conversation with my
servant, the girl Bridget Macdonald, about the dog's
Larking. She said she would not swear anything
about the matter. I did not notice anybody knocking at the
house on Tuesday. I heard some knocking at the door on
Wednesday end Thursday.
By the Coreeer—lt did not appear strange that the
knockings were not answered, as 1 knew Mrs. Emshor used
to go out early in the morning, and frequently stay out all
day. My faintly consists only of myself, my wife, and the
servant Macdonald. Nu one slept in the house that week.
Mr. Rowland deposed—l was lately warrant officer at
Wonthipttreet. I now live at 25, Barnsley•resid, one of the
houses of the deceased. I collected her rents and did her
repairs. She loft me at my own house about two o'clock on
Monday, the 13th, when I paid her some money. Slue
was not in the habit of admitting etmagers to
her house unless they came about reptile. On
the same day the deceased had a dispute with a man
named Smith, a shoemaker. She spoke to me about it and
appeared very excited, and told me that Smith had torn
her basket. I went to Lim to try and settle the
matter, and heard him threaten her. lie said, "
serve the old bitch out." He was lame and had
a crutch. The dispute was Acid arrears of rent. She said,
" This man wanted to rob re ; I have got a note he."
Nothing was said about a cheque. She said what I have
just repeated in the hearing of a man named Fox, whom
deceased was going to put in poression. I understood her
to say that he wanted to !Ai her of • 501. note.
By a jwyman—l did not see the note. She had a balance
to pay for paper, and my impression was that she was
going to pay Nome of the money that day.
By the Coroner—She bought the paper for shout 150 f.
She paid
that Wrier, I believe, that alio was going to pay with the
note. The dispute tookce about haV•past, 1. It was not
an unusual thing for her to quarrel with her
tenants, or for them to say something in
reply. They abused her, but I never heard them threateu
her. She has told me that they have threatened her, but 1
never heard them do so myself. The man who hail the
quarrel with her lives nearly opposite my house. It woe
on Friday afternoon that I tint beard she was not to be
found. I generally saw bee about once a week.
Mr. Joseph Biggs--I live at 25, Portlaod.road, Bethnal-
green. I ant a minister of the apostolic church, and have
been so twenty years. I was on intimate terms with the
deceased. I believe I was entirely in her couridence.
wrote her letters for her and her receipts, and have done so
for the last four years. I saw her frequently, BOHM •
times twice a week. I used often to call on
her. Almost every Sunday evening I called upon
her. When she used to call et my louse I frequently saw

let 11 tor. I mad to all on her co Tomdsy, because that
warn the most eommewisist dog whoa she wanted to go out,
Anil It was lily habit to go with bar. Hatt saw her alone
ill the thuolay Wore lb. murder. 1 sprat the evraiii4 with
he,. I wont sheet eight n'ekirk, sad about two.
I soen • letter to Yr. Cooh• to maks an appointment
1..1. at the paper. Wises haands Um: appututstast
to
now cm the Toseday I ale. made an appointment with the
to
.hieureal to sm. sad most him on the Tussda=imi
at Acres at her boom. 1 ilid sot go
.t..yeti at tome to hare an early iliaser with
111, .00, li.t.alemd to get there as rise alter es I amid.
141 art get there before ttalf•put I. I thew knocked
**Tyrol time., hot could not get adanissem. I wai1...1
oar &lame sad Monied. lint reedit seat gain ohni.•
ram. col 1 thought mho had goms out. I 'Folic net a
• of toper, " Mr. Nap cagod— gfra Estate. 1.104 at
1"°
:.0.1 1 threw it down the arm. 1 did sot call
I ...ported she would call as me. It was not unuouil
of late for me sot to me her fir miring as from the :Mods,'
to the Friday, breams her barium* Mid so much alout
kWh".

fly •• lama--I as a Malnwer.
Its the l'oetswer- the has drpooted melds, sad
with nor tor safe keeps& I InAl so paper in which
thainsin al any .4 her peoperty. either in the ahripi...f
• will or ethane... I know of a. will beteg in existews..
I have no reams 4. behove that she made say will : but I
ho .he tally blended to do sin. I wrote receipts for her
'a the Vanity evening, Ike hot time I saw her. I wrote
the T'. p 1 risen to a not 1... k .he hid. but which I
kept. That hook Aid not cogitate the secount .4 the whole
.4 het property. I awl to prepare the receipts at my ow e
home swept aadm special rl7cumstartms. I cannot my how
massy hawses booboo& h reference to. It is la the cu,tody of
Mr. RtAlir, the labeller, hi *Men I horded it ow. r irheo I
heard of the death 44 thud's...ed. The receipt I wrote ow
lot nanday is the owe produced 1.
eiryamer-11.1.. not know what was the amosat the
swab, riallected ia the week. I onaisot my bow
mash she menived on the boaday. She med to
say to rat somothwas haw ant& she 11.. d col.
Metal. Ind 'hey won more pagrag weeds, of which
I leek as Wis. whoa elle received on the Meaday
uss 'rte property. of which I took oo account ins the book.
I catem4 give aa al the ananont. I was sot no
latiorte term" with any member of Mr. Emsley'a
family. I .1•1 am Immo any of them. I propersl
m•r....re to her firma the bat I. theme worth, '• the
will .1 the Lord be dome." (A lau,:h. I AU the inter•
mane hetweva a. Ida that nation began AM coded by run
eating •• the la•alo will he dross. (Laughter.) Mau I
...LA tore al. att her property she told me that the trust
ig-vertir ea. shoat aka'. • year. I do not know the
on....int .4 her other poyety.
Mr Jane.. Wright I live at Mileirad•
wood I an, c•.11....-tor deal A;trta. In conropiesee
.4 the 1,...,4.4 the 1.44 unpin,. and what I saw in the mews.
par..r., I • rote to We that I MIAs the person who tabled oa
her on the :....iturtlay pre.s.o. to her thigh. It was them
between 'in and warn. I went them to inspect the
leper at her more*, with the view of selling it for her.
When I went to the home the eionromaa bet ore
in. I *rid omit.... will Mrs. Essaley and she showed
me • go-d many patterns e 4 paper .ml told a
they were very cheap, Having looked them over, I
went down into the whir., and had a elms with
kin for half... hour. I .aw :1 rota eitting es the
maim between the passage and the leek door, sad Mn
Liatoliry teal to him. as we wen gong opetaire, "He into the
garde. and me if you cannot had some weeds to pill up
The roloner mad the jury bad now beard all the
that mall be laid before them. At lb. out meeting,
a. they would recollect, he obeerred that there might be
other el-Weave to 60 1411 i WM* thosm which erin not then
in A6t .rate to be preeentaL That remark arose from
~..ornon., stem. which had haw made to him se b ituprines
that 6.4 t•o ueil out to be perfectly fruitlce. He .hd not
mesa to °mien:doe the advents:lr of ouch CvlllltilUnif,i•
hos.. Bundy yeaterday be received a letter from
a elerenwo it. Lawn, and although it spoke of
what mixht not he .4 any moment, it was eel! that ever?.
gerrion who thought he could throw any kelt ,ma unea-
se.... a till* kind should communicate what he believed
would treat to promote the ends of justice. The
jury would bear is mind that they were
willed with the view not only of ascertaining
the • AllAti.t death, hat also of dim-over*, if pnesible,
who Ir.a the forma by whom death was oecasioited.
There wao, therefeee, a twofold object in the inquiry. sot.
wttit.teml. II g the advantage to society of ror•oleta. courts,
tho tratln..r. of which were almost Iwo
e•e• ii A roort ins own rimed there wum no praoi-
iolity of re-opening it, and he thought, therefore,
that hie 'hay would he lest ibacharited by hut
adeturein; the mart. He did not think there w••ult1
he any alvantage in calling them together, petlaspe
meiarily, from their Moors by Aziag a given day ; for, not-
withstanding all the activity, seal, sad utelkl<ewe .4 the
cabers, there was no such evidence in their possessosa u would
justify hint is lanai • positive time foe resuming the in.
quire. He should, consewaeutly Millie exercise of his din
eretinil, adjourn the mart sine .11.. At tb. same time, as
the matter was owe of great importance, be thought it right
that the Jury aboald Ire bound over la a high, sum than
Ito v tool been hitherto, .0 that if Mtlythittg further turned
up to Justify it they Tight he esllcl together iu a .!Dirt
period po.ittly at half andtorit's notice.
A juryman-1 wish to say that there is • ',phew, whom
it it believed, not only on my own part, but ea the part .4
some of my brother •jurymea, it would be desirable to
examine.

The ('oroner su-xested that if it was thought any acleast.
tage would be derived from caning the rennet referred to,
14 any ..they, Islme hon. it would be better to communicate
with Ithe coroner) prinitcly, otherwise it was pwaible
the ends .4 petic.• might be frustrate/I.
The ;unman had mem...sell the 'eater to the police
netters in charge .4 the ease. but as be had not received a
sitisfs,tory answer, he thou,;,tit it beget to apply to the
"dais head.

rh. r.woriew would he glad to re.- lee any information
Iron the ‘watletoan as to an, pout which kw suppoeed
eocild tr.d to the elucidation of the caw, aad act oral it
hereafter

jur% no'. Oen hound orer in recognisance. of 501.
h t.. Att..u.l aganb when sonaniotioL

SERIOUS PIRA' AT BLACICWALL -(THIS DAY.)

Between the hours of twelve and one o'clock this
morsiss information leeched the Loaders ire Mates. that
o terrible Iler hml broken out is the Woe ladle Docks. et
Poplar. 4, o hull spot assay of tie lead mins* a. well ea
the powerful llostnig mire hem &nth wark Argue. •tesftd•
After the laud empires had sot i• far as Poplar, the fireless
Lintel that the “Itthreak had takes place is the exteniive
same of premier. helongine to the Themes 100 Steam Duet
C...isparsv (formerly Mars'sl.4tuate is Oreharii-yeni, I.llack-
wall. The premien several several sere. ('p.m this space
were alerted the worhshope, the raw nag, the engioe
Moe s, sod the *ides gems.

The clinometry apposes to have bees made by the watch•
man employe! us the works. Smoke Miming in dose
Mellen from the mekshope convinced him that
the place was oe Ire. He at °see pare the
eseeelerry alum. In a very few minutes the dock
eompamrs imps. atteeded as well as the bilged* enlace
fess Wellelane.opiare, Jeffrey-spar% Watling-streak
Vartisipluestimit, noutkerark.bridge-rred. ehanes-dreet,
and other more distant depots. brinzio,, woth thou powerful
babes of Itarm mad Mr. &ides, the chid
edger of the A 4Striet, and esOaears Seantom
Perryd. Jwtwl. the allow is madesed d the
upper Omit. sad several other elld.k l'pna the arrival of
lb.. powerful form the 11.00.41 wove Mt to work fr en a
lewd rwlifslY of the Zest Loados easpeay's amiss, but the
dawn emovldy amemed a featful mreadeney, ea that at tut
them woes eel Ism than 2.10 fed of dams ascee•
shag law the air. The ilevAntatiue continent. sad the
lames estendsil au the nechanl.hoses Tar.nk the
property of Ur. 0. liremovl victualler, and Noy 4
mad 3, Orehard.phee. let Nal so teiresseata. Woof* to
Masers. Meat and 4 .0. . the brewers, of Tuttenhasivouraread.
Hy sews to-day the M was gut motor, bet it was not entirely
lentinceialied. The whole at the weekdays, the taw mills.
plats( rooms, asl elegise homes, are hissed Jowe, sad
She steak im the yard weer* daseased by Are. This loss
will fall es the Phalli% Odle, The (*char, hoew Tavern.
sew( Nos. 4 mid 0. Ordieril•ploee. an al.n med. &temp.! by
ire arid water. The sues of the catastrophe is unknown at
present.

TUX WELitla •ND Tar. EitNITRN.-011
It .day eirfl.ll/1X lasi, when it 11011,TIV lotion that the " his
Mil." ir.lsipeal at Melfonl flares, aim* of the
forliraii who Imre at chapel seemed to he struck with a
pun,- ; they all rattled forth from the differuot places of
worship, l.nvise the ministers to preach to euiptt *cuts.
A very slims time after the people hat "halted,' the
Prttn hen site and followed, thee sting the curious
spry mete .4 the guiding the sanL in Ilse way
liar shuald so. • PI 411. .i.arad.
Twit Wisottrsi Disrfacr AND TIM FllltNell
Ta"TI, Os Weilueeihor morning • special meeting of the
Huttlerifiebt Chtnitvr d Commerce was Wird to delihe-
este 111.41 what steps shintl he takes is eendiezins with the
I. reach Trude. A letter was read buns an Emboli sonat-
ina. ors the restimid, ahle to speak with authority us the
matia. that 110.. the mercilessa and rrisenfac-
tarces is the Ifsditrrsitchl .recut were alive to their in.
r. it-tts, and took step.. to promote the same, they would sot
ohtau sorb a tariff as would enable them to wad their Vial.
lido Fore* seder the new treaty. The letter added that
I h.• ralrst.otra mode to convince the authorities in charge
.4 'he question of the necessity for bow ,r 4 injure., duties
hid failed. The imestion haring Nan iliariaiaad, it was re•
...hod to note smother attempt; in casings-tins with Leeds
end Wales*. Di oder tie Prowl arthritis' to maks urns
,se • rod Mr. Weir sr roilractod to bald hinself
is r,111111e.. to poressd to Parr at any errs-et, r a dept..
1,00 froal the iluddemileld Chandler. It was resolved to
advertise foe soMeriptinas to defray the up, 11e47 .1 Cie .1...-
p.st,t.ft, which haws abwely reached a considerable era.
ador.t.rdor Crowder*.