The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAT.
The Magdalena arrived to-day with the West
India mails. She left St. Thomas on the let inst.
Amongst her cargo is specie in silver of the value of
440,303 dollars, and 461,851; dollars in gold. The
weather in the West Indies has been of the most
extraordinary nature.

At the time the Magdalena lay at St. Thomas
the tide rose higher than was ever known ; the sea
rolled in most violently, and a number of disunited
ships ran into St. Thomas for shelter. It was re-
ported that a ship had foundered outside St.
Thomas. The Bahamas and Jamaica packets expe-
rienced the most frightful weather. The swell was so
great at the Windward Islands that the passengers
could scarcely land. All the ships met with in the
Atlantic were under close reefed sails. It is believed
that a fearful hurricane bad raged to the north of
the. West India Wands. This weather had been
experienced since the 19th ult.
The Conway arrived out at St. Thomas on the
Slet ult. She had experienced very bad weather
ever mince she left Madeira. The wind in the West
Indies hod shifted about in the most remarkable
manner from the S.W. to the N.B. ; in coming from
Jamaica the wind shifted about from:all points of the
compass. In Honduras there had been a commercial
panic, and great distress was felt.
The Magdalena's mails were landed at
Southampton.

THB MED]

MALTA, Nor. 13.
Her Majesty's ship Terrible is ordered to premed
to Trieste to embark Mr. Olsdetoes for the lonima Islands.

Newspapers and Mho. articles by post have arrived for
Prince Alfred and Ygior Cowell, ea that it is pretty dear that
the Euryalue is to come to Malta. The officers of the navy
appear Tory pleased with the prospect of having • royal
prince among them, and intend taking great one that the
army officers do not monopolise him among them. A
number of anecdotes are related among the officers about the
Prince, all very such in kis favour. His relative, the Prince
of Hohenlohe, who otwarnands her Mansty's ship Scourge,
en the coast of Syria, has been vary ill with Speer. At one
time serious fears were entertained of the dissent proving
fatal.

Her Majesty's ehtp Himalaya arrived ow the 9th with the
Sad battalion of the 9th Regiment, and proceeded on the
next day to Corfu.
Her Majesty's ship Vigilant left on the 7th for Tripoli,
taking a health guardian with her. The sailors of the fleet
are allowed freely on shore, and are behaving very well, very
few of them wattling the police, though poor .Tack sairosly
gets fair play in Malta; the liquor he drinks he pays very
dear for, and it is of the very worst quality, adulterated in
such a manner with salt and cayenne u to bedews him to
drink more from the very thirst that the drink metes. The
low publio-bounes sell the vilest of liquors to the mike.%
which sot only taw:irate., but drives them into • state of
delirium, frequently injuring seriously their health..
The lower elms, who keep these dens, appear to have no
Aar of detection, and carry on their wisdom' trade soder the
very eyes of the police, who, as fare. I out loan,
take no
measures to prevent these poisonous drinks being sold.
The present governor has taken some steps about these low
spirit shops, by preventing women of ill fame from frequent-
ing deem ; and it is hoped that he will, when he him time to
attend to the subject, remedy the sale of the poisonous
drinks.

The aide and ice creams of the natives do not appeer to
have much attraction for Jack, who, however, occthionally
may be sera with one, and • good deal puzzled what to do
with it, but some knowing one relieve, his embarnseament
by suggesting that he might mix It with ram and drink ft
that way. Nor does the Malta beer, named Bavarian, qa te
suit Jack's palate, nor indeed say Englishman's.
On the loth November, loitering= day, Sir Joha Penne-
father gave a ball to all the dire. A review of the troops
preceded the ball, at which a number of sailors attempted to
appear in grand style on horseback, but their miaerable nags
at the Grit sound of the drams beat a rapid 'retreat. On one
of the sergeants of the 4th Sedation Rider, being appointed
adjutant, the other sergeants had a meeting, and iron*.
diately, among themselves, seheoribed to premed him with •
pair of silver eandleetleks, with • suitable inscription.
Lord Newb)rough, in his yacht, the Vertu, is stall at
Malta. The refitting of hie yacht will require about another
tottnight, when the whole party will return to England.
The Marchioness of Hastings has been detained at Rome
by the illness of the marquis, but will arrive at Malta on the
Itch to spend the winter, the marquis proceeding to Egypt
for the winter.
Her Majesty's ship Desperate arrived from Athens this
morning.

Tar ADULTERATION OF CONPECTIONERT.—The
Lamest of thin week crsataiaa • report on thaadultentlion of
sugar confecitioaery, a subject Just sow posemeed of much
interest, in coneoguenee of the meant wholesale polotainge at
Bradford. Of 60 samples submitted to analysis, maths moat
11 only were grossina, while not leas than 34 were adulte-
rated. The eta aotorious " Deff " was defeated In 13
samples, together with, in most cases, large proportions of
flour. The Lear was found in as many as 33 of therapies,
either separately, or together with the " Daff." The hods
of flour, or starch, generally employed, an potato and wheat
flour but Indian corn flour was present in several of the
articles, and, in one instance, sago-powder. The erect of
the adulteration varied greatly, from one-fourth, one-third,
to even nearly three-fourths. The confeatonery analysed
consisted of Images of various kinds (laoluding ginger,
myenne, and peppermint) mad Scotch mlargre, several de-
scriptions of comfits, conversatioe MTh., sal many other
articles. The ordinary adulteration of °ornate ts with who/at-
e mr, which la thus cunningly employed. It is net usually
mined %natty with the sugar, bat the areaway, or other
seeds, are lest coated thickly with the wheat• Soar, and the
an is efterwards added. The effect of this proceeding le,
that when put into the month the sugar only comes into
contact with the tongue ; and hence these comfits have at
Antall the eirestnem of the genuine comfits. This
tioa is easily dieermered, either by simply breaking the
comfits areaway% when the ~less of wheat-flour may
usually be readily distinguished from the outer sugar por-
tion, or by placing than is water, when the sugar will he
dissolved, but the wheat-flour will remain, retaining newly
thomillthal sine and form of the comfits. All rehrenos to
the ~ions pigments employed to colour anger MAO.
thetery le purposely omitted. Many of these, it is knows,
=Mhighly injurious and even poisonous properties=
y been noticed in the report, Mehl indeed
have beat the picture revealed of the adulteration of
lozenges end sager onhotionery in mmeral. The articles
analysed were all purchased 4the metropolis within the
last few days, end the sweet and addreseds of the vendors.
many of Asia wholesale lied marozfecturies confectioners,
us given in the report
EXPULSION PROM A CONvENT.—An interesting-
looking girl, Margaret Heaton by Rome, wee yesterday
brought before the Liverpool magistrates under the following
circumataaces. A police officer, who was ;swim
Browubw-temet at an euty hour the same morning fund
bar. minting ea sew sew sad 4 great trouble. She lad
mei tamed oat of • caareat, she said, established by the
Slaters of the Good Shepherd, in Priam Edwin-street, suer
too, and which la also need as a pealtentiary. Daring the
heating of the cam, yesterday, It was elicited that the pri-
soner had bees somewhat irregular ia her life, sea that her
father had pieced her in • ceavent (depositing • see of
money towards her mairitenantia) with a view to her refeirma-
don. In reply to the bench, the gist said aba wee impelled
because she had been talking of the 't thine of tbde ~la "
to some of the other inmate.. The ~oh, aline ladybug her
to lay her tees before the priest of the diemlet, diewneed the
priemer.
DESTRUCTIVE Ftlll.—Yeeterday morning, between
the hours of roar and Sire o'clock, a distinctive flee broke
out as the premier of Mr. George Smith, sebeesordel, No.
SO, Beilmal-green-coed, Meepengere were iiegstobad far the
ermines of the Leaden Brigade, which arrived ta gut* ~-
cession. A plentiful supply of water war obtained hat the
ere was net sehdoed Wove the premise* were destroyed.
The mut is unknown. The loss will fall en the rboxia

CLAIM 07 A 117881 AN PRINCE TO A ',ALYCE
INHERITANCE.

An interesting question has just been submitted
to the French Council of State : The Emperor
Napoleon, by letters patent dated the 9th of April,
1810, erected into a duchy the domain of Navarre,
snd conferred it on the Empress Josephine, and on her
death it pawed to her grandson, Priam AUtuitas
Beauharnais, son of Prince Eugene. Prince Augustus, who
had been duly registered as proprietor of the doh,
tamed, by royal ordinance of the 6th Feb 1834, paw so
sell it, on condition of investing the proceed, in limes. Re
died is 1836, without children, and his brother, Prism
Maximilian, beams his heir. Among other thbigs, Priem
Maximilian earns into remake of the Itcnte ken the mit
domain; the anneal amount of that Rents at Arm am
62,890 f., but by the conversion of the Five per Cents. it le
to 66,601 f. Prince Maximilian married a daughter el
the Emperor Nicholas of Ramis, and received the
title of Duke de Lendttenberg. He died la No.
yember, 1862, leaving lama. Foar years after his widow
her Imperial Highness the Duchess de Lenektenierg, indeed
from the Preach government for her eldest me, Priam
Nicholas Maximilianovitds, the Armed Reds with the
interest due on it. But the Minister of Finance refused te
give it tip, on the
_ground that the Duke de Leuchtrabmg,
having beoome • Russian, and bedng qualiikd to mooed ill
the Russian throne, had forfeited it. The Dachas
spinet this decision to the Council of State. Not si=
that the Prince Nicholas is :Russian, the advocate c( bei
Imperial highness, M. Falk*, maintained that a silkirst
might pass to a foreigner, and he argued that the prince had
as much right to it as hie father and uncle had. With re!
=stao Ms succession to the Russian throne, the
mid that it was perfectly Memory,
r LL vas limbed from his mother, and four
beenehes already steed between her and the throne,
he reabileined that the Emperor Napoleon bad in.
the dank to go to the family of the Empress Jose.
phis* without regard to their future position, the donation
being in fact made from family affection alone. The Minister
of Finance, on his part, budded that the possessor of
nieijoral forfeits It by voluntarily owing to be a Preis=
and in proof of his assertion pointed to the fact that
Bernadotte, on becoming King of Sweden, bad forfeited that
which he had possessed. He showed, also, that though the
elder
brother of the Duke de Lenchtenberg had not forfeited
his French nationality, the duke himself had dons so by re.
esiving the title of Imperial Rightism from the Emperor of
Russia, and without authoriution of the French government
aeoepting a command in the Russian array. The minister
further represented that the possessors of majored are re.
paired to take an oath of fidelity to the Emperor, and that
the son of the duchess, as a Russian prince, could not do so.
The Council of State decided that for the reasons urged on
behalf of the minister, the claim of the Duchess de laruchten-
berg must be rejected.