The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-01 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

NEW YORK, JAN. 20.
The steamship Black Warrior arrived here this
morning with Havannah dates to the 16th inst. She
reports that part of the Spanish fleet, consisting of
one ship of the line, one frigate, one sloop, one brig,
and one steam frigate, sailed from Havannah on the
12th inst., for a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, for
the hoalth of the crews ; but a rumour is afloat that
the real object of the cruise is to pay their respects
to the Mexicans at Vera Crux.

The United States steam frigate Wabash, having
on board Colonel Anderson and his forty followers—
the last of the Nicaragua fillibuaters—arrived at
Havannah on the morning of the 16th.
The weather in Cuba continued very warm; busi-
ness was dull. Exchange on London, 118 to 120.
Messrs. Neill, Brothers and Co., of this city, in a
report issued this morning state that the southern
cotton markets are again showing considerable
heaviness, as indicated by telegrams dated the 19th
inst. Prices having been carried over the limits of
orders, a disposition was shown to wait for the re-
action which was likely to follow the late rapid ad-
vance. American spinners had withdrawn from the
market.

The great musical hit of the season at St. Peters-
berg is Don 0i001114911., atilt Madams Dina Santa, Madams
Basle, TootlesMt, Marini. and Evarardl In the chief cha-
racter'.

Complaints are made by the Opera managers at
Cmstantinople of the difficulty in pleasing the Turks.
Neither Italian, German, nor French magic goes down with
them. On the other hand, the dasiemeee enjoy the most dia.
tingulabed favour.
Miss Balfe is in Paris with her mother, and will
am long, in all probabWty, be seised at ace of Ohs large
theatres in Italy. The gifted Whet of this young Ugly
remains in Leedom, It is rsereeted, is being oat his popular
opera The Bohemian Girl, Immolated into Italian, for Her
Majesty's Theatre.

THE PENNY-A-LINES.
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The Emperor of the French, exasperated at the
late attempts on his life, is said to have blamed the French
police and declared it to be the worst in Europe. TLe most
efficiemt auxiliary of the English police is the newspaper
press. Everything out of the common way that happens in
England is photographed, as it were, in the daily and weekly
newspapers, and held up to the gaze of the world. Is there
a stranger lands at any of our ports or travels about the
country with anything singular about his person, manure,
or luggar—is there anything mysterious observed shone the
inmates of a house or shop in any part of the kingdom—
forthwith such singularities or mystcriee aro made the subject
of a newspaperparagraph, and such paragraphsere copied from
one journal into another. The metropolitan newspapers keep
oirrespeadents in various provincial towns, who transmit to
London passgraphs of every unusual Ocenrrenee that comes
under I Len observation. In fact, the English newspaper,
though it may contain leading articles, law and police in-
telligence, reports of public meetings, art criticisms, fashion-
able movements, reviews of books; births, deaths, and mar-
emu ; foreign and shipping news, advertisements, the state
of the public funds; the trade, the weather, and the share
and money market; records of accidents end offences ; is not
considered complete without the aid of the paragraphist.
Now no matter from what mune, everyone reads the par-
ticul;rs of trifling bat singular and unusual incident' ft-
corded in a newspaper. A week or two mince a paragraph
appeared in a London journal, mentioning that a gold ring of
great valise and of a peculiar make was found in the stocking
of • thief apprehended in an English provincial town,
end within a few hours after this was published, the
mint of police in Paris was enabled to track
• gang of Parisian jewel robbers, of whom he had in vein
been in search. At the time of the murder of O'Connor, Kane
years glue, there was a description in a London newspaper
of • passenger by the Channel Islands mail packet whose
behaviour was unusual, and immediately this was published
a detective started for Jersey and apprehended Manning, the
murderer of O'Connor, there. It was owing to an incidental
remark in a newspaper that the pollee were put upon the
right track to discover the proofs of guilt of Cottrvonier, the
Swiss valet, who assassinated Lord William Rums% But
the newspaper paragrephist not only eaglets the police in the
detection of criminals, bat he oftentimes unconsciously pre-
vents crime from being attempted by exposing inadvertently
the preliminary movements and contrivances of scoundrels.
Criminals of every class, from the assassin to the petty thief,
dread and detest the newspapers for their inquisitiveness and
garrulousness. If France had a newspaper press as omni-
vorous and übiquitous as that in England, it is highly pro-
bable that the Parisian police would have had some intima-
tion of the movements of Pierri and Orsini, and of the diabo-
lical preparations in the Rue Lepelletier. But the Emperor
of the French abhors everything in the shape of a news-
paper, and the consequence is that his police lose • most
valuable auxiliary in detecting plots against his life. lin
Majesty may depend upon it that Italian bravos in France
would dread the newspaper paragraphist, or penny-a-linsn
frustrating their villany more than they would the unassisted
cunning of a thousand Vidocqn. The French Emperor,
although he resided in England, never could have estimated
the manifold and important uses of the English newspapers.

The Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter Hall, per.
form Blyah on Friday next, Feb. 6; Madame Clara Novello,
Miss Dolby, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr.
Bentley, principal vocalists.

HA:TipAL MSS.—An interesting sale of musical
property took place on Friday and Saturday, at the rooms of
Meears. Pattie& and Simpson, in Piccadilly. The principal
lot in the sale, No. 183, consisted of thirty-seven volumes of
Handel's works, including nine oratorios and sixteen opens,
the whole being beautifully copied under the composer. own
direction, by hia amanuensis, J. C. Smith, for presentation to
Mr. Bernard Granville, • gentleman of fortune, and an Went
admirer of Handers genius. It would appear ham the
auctioneer's statements made at the sale that these volumes
offer very considerable variations from the printed text, and
present some interesting points for the consideration of any
future editor of Handel's works. After a somewhat
languid competition the hammer fell at 180 plums,
the purchaser being, we believe, • member of the
Granville family. The following lot, 184, consisted
of a trio, entirely in Handers own handwriting, parts of
whkh, a Ss to non lewd swore" and "Q 6•71410 non lel" ere
printed in Dr. Arnold's edition, but having an unpublished
middle movement, " Lontano dal too bens." This lot was
bought by the purchaser of the former for the eum of 28
guineas. Lot 187 comprised • " Gloria," written for a
double orchestra and chorus, occupying eleven large folio
pages, entirely in Handel's autograph; some manuscript
scores of Handel's works, written by I. C. Smith, but not
appearing to be of any special interest, were added to this
and the whole sold for sixty guineas. The organ built far
the church where formerly officiated the Rev. Richard
Cecil, Bishop Wilson, and the Hen, and Rev. B. W.
Noel, formed a lot in the same ale. It was knocked down
at the RIM of 2301.

We are requested to state that the convocation of
the prelates and ckrgy of the provinoe of Canterbury will
not sit on Friday, February 6, bat will be further pro-
rogued to Wednesday, February 10.
The Siicle says that the novel spectacle of camel
and dromedary racing will be provided for the Pariaians this
coming spring.

The Fier: Mourant Brock, incumbent of Christ
Church, Clifton, has announced his intention of shortly
delivering an op= air discourse opposite the spot where the
Leigh Woods =goody was perirstrated.—Brestel Guar&
VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF
WALIS TO THE ROYAL POLTTICHNIO INSTITIITION.—/Lt
an early hour an Saturday morning Professor Pepper was
taken by surprir with a visit from the Prince of Wales and
Prince Alfred, who were accompanied by Mr. Gibbs and Dr.
Becker. After viewing the numerous =Jetts of interest is
the galleries, =snow coszoorsenic pictures, Montanarre ex-
quisite Mexicanr:E
, and also groups by Madame Mon-
tanan, relate= the royal families of England sad
France, they to the large tank, to view expel-
meets Migrating submarine blasting and the operations of
the diver. The whole results were very sucoesaful, and the
miniature "Royal George" was blown to atoms, which se.
cended end looted upon the surface of the water. Their
Royal Highnesses, afterkindly throwing some golden His-
urea of bar most melons Majesty to the diver under
water (the whole of which were duly found and appropriated)
passed to the large lecture-room, to see the electric raped.
meats with the great deem hydro-electrical machine; wee-
meats nowhere else to be witnessed on such a grand sad
imposing nude. The Prince of Wake remained In less
proximity to the machine, and appeared to be much plumed
with the gigantic sparks, the falling star, and the aurora bs
vacua. ANT staying till about one o'clock the party re-
tired, expendag great satisfaction with their visit.
GLASGOW A CENTURY 13 ees.—Smollett's three
yens at Glasgow stodentahip were but an extension
of his acquaintance with Scottish life end its ha-
moms. To canon= what Glasgow was at that time is
almost beyond the powers of an Englishman. "Can you
direct me the usenet way to a town in your country of Scot-
land called Glasgow F' ashy young Oebaldistone, before he
leaves England, of Andrew Fairservice. " A town ea'd
Mangey ? echoes the indignant Andrew ; " Glasgow's a
nosy, atea ;" and, under Andrew's guidance. the 'dm-
tersr and the reader enter Glasgow together. Defoe ocere•
berates Andrew's description, speaking of Glasgow in 1727 as
"the emporium of the west of Scotland foe its commute
and riches." and, "in a word, one of the cleanlieet, most
beautiful, and best built cities In Great Britain." And yet
then, and for ten years later, the population was not our
17,000. But it was the time of the rise of the West Jed&
trade, when the Glasefords and Dunlops and Cunninghems
and Campbells and others, whose names are identified to thie
day with the cenunerce of Glasgow, were availing thiamine'
of the new opportunities &Ceded by the Union to Scott*
=tupelos, and acquiring, by their mingled thrift and sew
city„ what were considered colossal fortunes These " Ses
bum princes," as they were *alkyl, were the aristocracy id
Glasgow. On the Plainstanes, where they walked day It
their mulct cloaks, curled wigs, and cocked hats, with Ode
heeded canes in their hands, all &hen made way far dna
with reverence. Inderior to these were the " weaver-bode
and other members of the trade corporations, many of ens
wen substantial =kens. Distinct from both, and yet =f
!bag with both, as a kind of intellectual element, INS
little knot of college professors, medical men, and
The Professor of Hotel Philosophy at that time
=trinity was the metaphysician Hutcheson. The Pm.
lessor of Mathematics, and one of the eceenteldties of the
tom:, was Robert Simeon, the editor of Hada Await
a younger medical men were William Cullen and
Hester, the future chiefs of British medicine,
(tl:r
unknown to fame. Half of the warm wen
and, if any of the others had his deal= sheet
kept them to himself. The whole social sooner=
place was lied, frugal, sad anthodicaL The
chimes, with few exceptiens, livid not to
upend
but in Boors having but one =this-room the
family ; and such a thing as a private sonny was
in the tows. The master of every respectable
was= king and priest, seldom spokes to by his &Him
servants, and never without awe. la the manner
to his shop or oonotberlionas; he retwansil le the middle 1r
the dey to dinner; the afternoon was nabs again lido
nese; and only in the emetic= did be vein aid sissail
plasmic. The habit than was for the mien is meet
,taveres while the weenest.dolks and young &Ike lied
tea ; but punctually at nine o'clock the step of the goad ma
war, again heard at his own threshold, and all was hushed It
family worship and supper.—Quarterly Aegis's, Janasq•

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lot, 164, oonsiated
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were lidded to this lot,
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the Rev. Richard
lot. and Rev. B. W.
It wee knocked down

the convocation of
mr• of Ceatarbury will
will be further pro-

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