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

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858.

tics of many from the business in hand. The
position of them two brothers among their fellow-
citizens, in their Town Hall, is closely analogous to
that of two " Conscript Fathers' m old Rome, whose
family could bout of ancestral statue.. By their
own merits the BAINIS family have been enrolled
' among those who exercise a powerful inflame, for
good over the destinies of their country. With the
statue of the de►d man, and with his two living
descendants near its base, before them, bow could
the men of Leeds fail to be conscious of the power
of that class to which they belong ?
We have no desire to see England governed by
its towns, in the sense in which such an expiration
was once, we believe erroneously, attributed to Mr.
Commie. We can feel the moral and irsthetical
beauty of the peculiar character of our English
landed aristocracy, and should regret to see them
jostled said, entirely. But we do desire to see the
great industrial element of society, which is developed
most healthily in our large towns, asserting its own
consequence in our political world. The aristocracy
of England could never have been what it is had it
not been continually absorbing "new men" into its
circle. In former ages London was the main con-
tributor of this new blood. The GRESHAM
in an older, and the WALPOLE'S in •
more recent time are instanoes of this.
But the growth of manufactures, the de-
velopment of the trade of the out-ports, and
the connecting links of the Railway and the Tele-
graph, have made the whole kingdom a London in
this respect. Though we deprecate the over-master-
ing of the Landed Aristocracy by the Towns, we are
right glad to think that the Towns must henceforth
stand on an equality with them. The study of the
peculiar characters of Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds,
Birmingham, and Sheitleld—of Dublin and Belfast—
of Glasgow and Edinburgh, will henceforth be of
equal importance to those who aspire to 'way the
rod of empire, with the study of the characters of the
heads of our Great Houses.

Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India, has
appointed Sir George Raman Clerk, K.C.8., and
Mr. Henry Baillie, M.P., to be Under-Secretaries of
State ; and Mr. Jame Como Melvill, late Deputy-
Secretary to the East India Company, to be Aa-
siatant-Under-Secretary of State.

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS TELEGRAPH.
MESSAGE FROM HER MAJESTY.

At the inauguration of the opening of the line at
Jersey, on Tuesday, the following telegraph message
was forwarded by Mr.Aubin, constable of the island,
through the Hon. Mr. Walpole, to her Majesty :
" The Directors of the Channel Islands Telegraph
Company, on behalf of the people of the islands,
solicit that you may be pleased to lay before her
most gracious Majesty this the first message con-
veyed by their telegraph. Though the establish-
ment of thiv means of rapid communication with the
mother country is an event of minor importance to the
empire at large, it is one of heartfelt satisfaction to
her Majesty's loyal end devoted subjects here, as
tending to draw still closer the bonds which
for nearly one thousand years have licked these
islands to the crown of England, and more firmly to
secure that connexion, the foundation of their liber-
ties and their prosperity, and which like their fore-
fathers they would deem no sacrifice too great to
preserve.
" Jersey, Sept 7."
Tier Majesty returned the following gracious
answer by telegraph :
" Rolyrood Palace, Tuesday night, Sept. 7.
" The Queen has received with the highest satis-
faction the announcement of the suooemthl comple-

tioa of a telegraphic
Channel Islands, and while her Majesty congratu-
lates the directors of the Channel Islands Tele-
graph Company upon their success, she rejoices is
ass more rapid means of communication and the
Glaser connexion thus happily established with a
portion of her dominions hitherto locally separated,
but always united to her crown by a spirit of un-
swerving loyalty unsurpassed in any part of them,
and of which the message just transmitted on be-
half of the people of the islands contains a very
gratifying expression."
A telegram received from Jersey, dated Wednes-
day afternoon, states that her Majesty's reply had
ceased great enthusiasm in the islands.
The line is to be opened to the public to-day
(Thursday).
The cable, manufactured by Newall and Co. at
Birkenhead, is of the size of the shore end of the
Mediterranean cable, but with ends in a propor-
tionate degree thicker. It starts from Church
Bay, Portland, and rests in depths of water varying
from 33 to 40 fathoms, as far as the island of Alder-
ney, which has been fixed upon as the first station.
At this point the French coast is only nine miles dis-
tant, and Cherbourg is plainly visible.
From Alderney the cable stretches to a point on
the north-west coast of Guernsey, and cronies that
island to St. Peter's Port, where there isa station in
the guard-house, nearly upon a level with the sea.
It than runs to Cape Groans, and is landed upon
a sandy beach—a matter of no small importance in
an island so begirt with rocks as Jersey. Between
eight and nine miles of underground work brings
the line to St. Helier,. The station is situated at
the corner of the Grand Square.
A considerable trade already exists between the
Channel Islands and St. Main, Granville, and other
places on the French mat. An extension in that direo-
tics' would afford to Normandy and Brittany the
facilities of communication which are now denied to
them. A message of twenty words from England
to say of the towns in those provinces is now
charged from 124. 91. to 14s. Bd. The charge for a
rososag• of like length front London to Jersey is 6a.

with -the

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EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PAU'S. Wanmramay Evsyngo.
The Nord and the Inclipandessiee Beige were
salved to-day o• account of their containing the will
of the Duchene of Orleans in the French language.
The moat severe orders have been given to the
French press not only to abstain from reproducing
the will or any extract thereof, but to refrain from
alluding to it in any way whatever. The march
which the Press, contrived to steal upon the go-
vernment by publishing a part of the will last night
has caused very great annoyance, and the question
of visiting the Praise with some punishment has
been discussed. Although in what the Preens
printed there was not a word to which objecion
' could be taken, it is felt that the blanks were ter-
ribly suggestive, and must have greatly excited
public curiosity. But the misfortune is, that to give
a warning to the Press' would only serve to call
public attention all the more to an historical
document which it is wished—blindly and
hopelessly swished—to blot out from French
history. I have very little doubt that within a few
days the papers will be authorised to print the will,
and that tho government writers will be ordered to
write aitieles, proving that it is not of a nature to
produce the slightest effect upon public opinion in
imperial Frans'. But what a severe task will be
imposed upon their rhetorical powers when they
shall be expected to do away with the moral effect
of the abject fear now exhibited by the advisers of
the crown at a few words from a woman's grave.
The Michela of Orleans died in the belief that
" Constitutional France" will yet be restored lo her
" dignity and liberty," and this strong government
is afraid to let Frenchmen know that such we, her
hope and faith !

The town of Poitiers is in a state of considerable
commotion on account of a state prosecution which
is expected to come on for hearing very shortly. M.
de Carson, formerly the principal editor of a now
extinct journal, the Abeille, M. de Manly, a young
man of noble lineage, and three working men of
Poitiers, are accused of having acted in a manner
calculated to trouble the public peace, by drawing
up and sending to the Count de Chambord a letter
on the occasion of his fite. This is the first instance
of a prosecution, under Art. 2, of the Public Safety
Bill, which is directed against " manoeuvas in
foreign countries." If the defendants should be
convicted, they will be liable to imprisonment fur a
period of not less than two, nor more than twelve
months ; bat they will, moreover, be for the rest of
their lives beyond the pale of common law, and
liable to be imprisoned, interne, or transported
without trial.

A club in Poitiers, which was frequented by
legitimists, hu been closed by the Prefect.

M. Loon Chevreau, the Prefect of the Srrthe, has
issued a circular, dated "Le Mans, Septembre 6,"
which seems intended to extenuate the bad effect
produced by his former circular of July 30, against
the hawking of Protestant Bibles. Re now
says that his circular was directed, not
against the book, but against the sale of
it by particular individuals. Re admits that the
Protestant Bible is a " moral publication" which
does not trangrees the " reasonable limits of relig,-
ous controversy " and is not of a nature to " it finite
men's minds and awaken passions which are not of
our epoch." But he says the intention of the go-
vernment is to prevent the distribution of this book
by "foreign societies having considerable resources
at their command." Although, therefore, the public
outcry on the subject has produced a notable midge-
, fiat' of the Sarthe circular, it will be seen that the
hope expressed by the Debate, that M. Leon Chev-
rean might be brought to show as much toleration
towards Protestants as the Emperor of China has
agreed to accord to them, is not yet realised.'
A report that Ranavallo, the Queen of l'tfadagas-
ear, is seriously ill, is considered important because
the hostile attitude lately assumed by a part of the
population of that island towards the French and
English is attribcted to the Queen's personal feeling.
The Bourse has today been decidedly heavy, but
the efforts of the speculators for the fall were not
able to realise any very serions change in quotations.
The Rents closed at 72fr. 10c. for act:fount, with a
fall of 200. and lbc. Mobilier fell bfr. The Southern
Railway rose Ilfr. 25c. The other lines were from
2fr. boa to bfr. lower.
M. Foald, Minister of State, has arrived in Paris
from Vichy, in improved health.
Prince Michael Stourdza, candidate for the post of
hospodar of Moldavia, has arrived in Paris from
Baden, to personally support, it is said, his can-
didattehip.

Count Walewaki and the Countess Vialewaka
arrived at Biarritz on Monday.
A letter from Bayonne, of the ith, oar :
The day before yesterday, the oeremooy of giving the
religions benediction to the hat works of the new jetty and
barrage took place In peewees of the Emperor. These
works, which were ordered by bin Majesty notwithstanding
the nehvounible opinions given of the plans by several
esiginsers of merit, have been, during the led year, carried
on with greet rapidity, under the direction of U. Degnenet,
the engineer who proposed them. The remits may be
akeetly judged of, and there is every chance of com-
plete snorer. At noon all the selling and row boats of
the poet were la requhitioa, Ailed with elegantly dressed
pinta; all proceeding towards the bar, end • number
of aareieges 'sneered et the eases thee the sawlp-
mak reed towards the sues point. Two theanters had
been engaged, and took as lewd the make Itka of the town,
the members of the Chamber of Comae% sad ether consti-
tuted bodies. At three o'oloolitheir Mokimiet antlaalta pro-
ended, without await, to the point of alemeoden ia two
court carriages and four. The Emperor wen ts fa 'military
warns, with the modes of the Legion at Nawser. Their
Melasthe slighted on the shore, which wee crowded with
people, sad proteeded le the extremity of the &diem of the
vow jetty, mime they leek their seats under a annery, mend

whirls were sessenbleit ell the authorities sad clew. The
bishop delivered ea saber to the Emperor, sad his Majesty
replied la a Jew words, which were received with theirs,
afterwards emairrias the deooratios dike Labs of Ilonoar
as M. Lefoat, a member of the ooaaoil•rsneral, sad on Y.
Detrain, viol-president of the Chamber of Commeren After
the religious onsegra of Mewing the ma sad a pot which
was shoot to be drives, the stesafmerine meted as the spot
was art In work, mad to a few minutes the par, radar the
stroke of the powerful machine, soak several yards tato the
grand. The Emperor, with the Empress on his rem, this
drereadad from the raised platform its which they had been
mated, went towards the misohies, and attentively sesmisad
the dilknat works, and addressed questions to the engieser.
After remaining an boor tad a half an the jetty, which as
yet ally manse of a no& row of piles, with a temporary
platform, sad vibrates at the heat of every wave, the Bm-
perm mod Impress returned to their elan" and proceeded
to the Villa Easisis amidst toed mesa t' Vim Moment 1
Vire flarprestrice 1"

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A letter from Vienna states that the Csimakan
of Moldavia, Prince Vogorides, has seat in his resig-
nation to Constantinople, wigging as his reason
that the results of the Conference of Paris have
responded so little to the hopes of the Routnains
that au insurrection is to be feared. The letter,
however, says that the real reason of the prince's
resignation is that as the Conference bee decided
that the future hospodar most be bona of Remain
parents he, being a Fanariot, cannot become a can-
didate. The letter concludes by asserting that the
sews ham this Principalities is satistestory, =Mat
Primes Vogasidne /wire of an outbreak are what,

TURKEY.

A Constantinople letter in the Austrian Gazette
gives the following u the address delivered by the
Sultan in the Divan, when enjoining economy on
the governors of provinces and other high digni-
taries :

I appointed you to your offices in order to ensure the wel-
fare of my subjects, without distinction of form of worship or
nationality. Bat I have found you negligent and unfaithful
'eremite, and many of you have not done your duty. I have
been good to you, but you have made an thence ass of my
kindness, you have trilled with my indulgence. Henceforth
I shall be most severe, and whoever does not obey shall be
chastised.

The Sultana who lately died at Mecca is not the
mother of the Sultan, as has been erroneously stated,
but only one of the legitimate wives of the Satan
Mahmond, his father. She had ,three children by
that monarch, only one of whom is still alive. He
has entirely retired from the world, and is one of the
high dignitaries of the Musenlman religion.
Accounts have been received from Constantinople
to the lit. M. Tho;vend had left qn an excursion
to Mount Athos. A partial modification had taken
place in the ministry. Abdallah Pacha, the new
seherif of Mecca, had been received by the Grand
Vizir. The bombardment of Jeddah had produced
an unpleasant impression on the Porte ; the Turkish
government state that the satisfaction would have
been more striking if the Turks had acted alone.
The conclusion of the new loan has calmed the
exchanges to go down materially. The son of
Fusd Pacha had left Constantinopii with the ratifi-
cation of the convention relative to the Princi-
palities. The English consul at Jassy is dead.
Prince Ohika was continuing to exert all his influ-
ence to obtain the poet of hospodar. The electoral
struggle bids fair to he very sharp in Wallachia.

A RIDB FROM BEYROUT TO BAALBEC
AND DAMASCUS.

No. lII._

Theft/attire establ shed at Kraye by M. Figou
was the first attempt to introduce the European
mode of silk-reeling in the Lebanon ; and its success
has stitnulaled the erection of other mills, not only
in that locality, but in various .other parts of the
mountain. The Mature itself is a long building
with a row of basins on either side, at the back of
which is the line of reels set in motion by means of
a single axle ; each being capable of disconnec-
tion, or of being " thrown out of gear," without in-
terfering with the movement of the other reels.
Each basin is provided with two cocks, one com-
municating with a eold water pipe, the other with
a steam pipe, so that the reeler c in regu-
late the temperature of the water in his
basin by turning on one or the other. The hood of
the workman is the thermometer ; and his judgment
in that respect is of the highest importance, as the
temperature of the water has much to do with the
goodness of the hook of silk. Before the introduc-
tion of then prooesees, the silk of the Lebanon was
reeled in the rude native fashion, and was unfit for
the European market ; but a wonderful impetus has
now been given to the trade, which is rapidly in-
creasing. The cocoons are brought from the sur-
rounding districts, directed of the outer coating of
floes, and then stifled. This process destroys the
chrysalis, which would otherwise speedily sat its
way through its golden shroud and destroy the
cocoon. The cocoons are placed in shallow
trays, which are then arranged on a stage in a
well-closed and small chamber ; steam is admitted,
and in about a minute and • half the chrysalis is
destroyed. The cocoons are then carried to the
drying stage, a vast framework' of timber, open
on every side and oovered wish a canvas roof.
They are placed on shelves, made of canvas
stretched loosely on frames, and the combined action
of sun and wind soon absorbs the moisture, so
that they may either be pressed and packed for ex-
palatial or taken to the filatwrs to be reeled. This
latter process is probably familiar to most of your
readers, and I will not therefore describe it; more
especially as I found the minutire of the details, all
having a value in the eyes of the reeler., varying
considerably in the different establishments, to
which I was admitted with great liberality, each file-
, terar offering me the eastern hospitality of pipes and
coffee. But my soul was with the fleshpots of Egypt,
for my repast of onions, bread, and chew, had long
ago been converted into some of the articles with'
hard names which the lecturers on the animal
economy tell me go to constitute bone and muscle.
The coffee and tobacco had sharpened my appetite,
and I was thinking seriously of the means of
decently getting at my reserve of provender, when
my Cicerone suddenly uttered a " crrre (Dieu! why
there is the padri and the pedrone." Sure enough
two figures were risking their necks on the rough
staircase down which our horses had scrambled some
two hours or more previously, and in a few minutes
M. Kova was greeted by all the staff of the
mill, and as soon as he could disengage himself he
came forward and welcomed us heartily.
I am ashamed to confess that my first thought
was that he must, like myself, be hungry, and that
a meal was inevitable, sooner or later. My next
was a Ins pleasing reflection, namely, that my
chances of a bed were considerably diminished ; but
a few minutes dispelled all anxieties on that score.
It was impossible not to like his open joyous fen—
and what a hospitable fellow he is! I found after-
wards that he was renowned for that virtue, and
that Kraye was a pays de Cocarsta for all his ac-
qitaintance and friend besides its being a locality
from which no stranger was ever turned away.
In a few minutes the place was alive; he the
most active of the band, though he had
only arrived from Rhodes that morning, and
had come on from Beyroat without drawing
bridle. The shutters were opened, bedding hunted
up, and the state bedroom, all the worse for Its
months of neglect, prepared for me. When in order,
it was a charming, coquettish-looking room, full of
quaint and curious kaicknacks, and, like every other
part of the house, crammed with pictures. Where
they all came from heaven knows, but the people of
Beyrout believe that Figou and Kova discovered •
treasure somewhere near Kraye, with heaps of gold
and jewels, and curiosities without end. So they
did ; it was the rich slopes of the valley of Ramana,
and its mulberry-trees, and its streamlete ; and the
" open sesame" of the cave was intelligent indastry.
They have made the place thriving and prosperous,
and taught the Arab boys and girls employed in the
filatures, and through them their parents, the value
of steady and judiciously applied labour.
At last supper was served, but, hungry as I was,
I was more delighted with my host and his talk than
with the long-desired refreshment. How we laughed
and chattered as we sat round the roughly equipped
table. It was comical to hear M. Kovas lamenta-
tions at having to treat me eo roughly; for Kraye
was not only fatuous for its hospitality, bat for the
handsome style in which everything was done; for
its plate and china; fur it cuisine and wines. One
of the remarkable things was, that at all times nearly
every article of food served at table was produced
on the spot. I can answer for the excellences of the
mutton and the fish, and the vegetables, as well as
for some capital dry red wine, grown in
front of the house. In fact, Kraye seemed
to produce all the fruits and vegetables imaginable.
Golden reinettes of fabulous dimensions and perfect
flavour were produced at dessert, and the garden
furnished strawberries, gooseberries, pears, several
Kitts of apples, peaches, and all the fruits of the
Levaut except dates, as well as salad herbs, and the
ordinary table vegetables in profusion. None of
these things were to be had at Beyrout except from
the garden of a European ; but here was ()reef posi-
tive that they needed nothing but a little culture to
become a new source of profit to the idle Arabi of
the villages. My hest was effecting a similar rove-
lution at Rhodes, where he had mounted a reeling
mill, gorgeous with marble, the remains of ancient
edifices, and where he had made himself a charming
house of one of the old knights' residences, enriched
with antiquities of all kinds which he had turned
up in laying out his garden and clearing the court-
yards. I longed to accept his urgent invitation to
go and see him and have a few days' exploration, for
the country seems is be a complete mine of anti-
(pities which have lain undisturbed for centuries.
On the morrow I was in the saddle by half-past

six, and took leave of my amiable host, while—
jet
words were a lament for having treated me so badly,
and an entreaty to come and have a proper receptio4
at Rhodes to save his credit. As we turned into
our road towards Fitment the whole of the lovely
valley, with its picturesque masses of lime.
stone cliffs in the foreground, lay before
me. We were 2,000 feet above the level of
the sea, and on the far horizon the hills of
Cyprus were visible, while the low land of the sea
shore, dark with olive trees, peeped through the
deep cleft of the hills. For some distance the ride
was lovely, through green and cultivated fields and
hollows, across numerous brooks that tumbled down
the steep sides of the valley with incessant dash, and
may, and music, while in front of us the Gelid
Hamana—the mountain of Hamann—rose up Meek
and bare, with large patches of snow clinging to its
aides. At half an hour's ride from Brays I ob.
served a seam of coal, about three feet thick, crop.
ping out from the side of a perpendicular well of
rock, and traces of iron were abundant, little trick,
ling rills leaving a strong terruginona sediment as
they stole along amongst the sedgy gram. An hoar
or two more brought us to a point where
one of the mimes of the Beyrout river shoots over a
steep rook, forming • picturesque waterfall, and
hurries away, clear and rapid, to the valley of
Flamm At this point the character of the land.
.cape suddenly changes, and behind a thorough
chaos of limestone boulders and fragments an amphi.
theatre of perpendicular rook' arose, puzzling me to
imagine how we were to get out of the huge pit we
were in. It was a strange and long journey to the
top of the rocks, performed in a series of rig-zsg
tacks among blocks of stone that often hid the mem-
bers of the cavalcade from each other; but there
was no chance of losing the road, fortunately, and we
happily escaped meeting any travellers coming the
contrary way, or I know not how in some places we
should have contrived to pees. In case you ever try
these mountain journeys in Syria, I ought to tell yoa
that if you do not propose to slide over your horse',
tail, you must, as you are expected by your animal
to do, twist the mane round your left hand, and held
on by it, for your horse's back vets into all mete of
wonderful angles with the horizon.
Just as we were getting to the top of the rock,
I saw a sight which nearly made me slide off
my horse with laughter, to the great alarm and
wonderment of Yakoob. The muleteer Yountf
had left his beasts to find their own way,
and had gone on on foot. Lifting up my
eyes, I saw the most wonderfully grave caricature
of a face looking down upon me from a
crag. It was the crupper of Youssurs little old
donkey. On either side of the tail, two circles of the
grey hair had been cut away for eyes, and epbrows
had been manufactured in the same way. The tail
hung down to represent the nose, and the breeching
band answered for a mouth. It was the queerest
sight imaginable, and the donkey seemed immensely
proud of the decoration. He was a strange little
brute, and insisted always on being at the head of
the procession, and regaling the eyes of his friend
the mule with the work of art I have described
above. If by any chance he got into the rear of
the cavalcade, he scrambled over walls, rocks, im-
possible or improper roads of all kinds, until he got
into his right place again. I forget his name, but it
was something very poetical, and Youssuf informed
me that if I would fill his hide with silver mejidie„
I should give no more than his value ; which means,
that he was probably worth twenty or thirty shil.
lingo at the utmost. G.