The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-15 00:00:00

MADAGASCAR.

A few weeks since accounts were received in this
country that several foreigners had been sent out of
the island of Madagascar, and that a number of
native Christians had been put to death. It appears
by intelligence just received that the Christians
were not the only sufferers, bat that numbers of the
heathen suffered also; nor did the Christians suffer
on account of their Christianity, but rather because,
in common with others, they had unhappily become
in some way implicated in political movements
affecting the existing government of the country.

It is stated that Rudio is to be sent to London to
give evidence against Barnard.

Ferukh Mien, the Persian envoy, ham returned
to Paris, after having made a six weeks' excursion in Italy
and Germany. Except in the Sardinian State., where he
had been invited ofecially and where be received, both from
the Government and from private individuals, the warmest
welcome, the Persian ambassador preserved a strict incognito.
In this character he visited Rome, Florence, Venice, Vienna,
and Berlin.

The Swiss Federal Council has decreed the estab-
liehment of night service for the purge of the Alp, In
1111.611116 r.

THE MINT AND NAVY CLUB AND THE EMPEROR
NAPOLZOL—The Moniker of flatunlay says —" We record
with pleasure a fact which shows the honourable sentiments
by which the officers are animated in England who stood
side by side with oar own officers in the Crimean war. The
committee of the Army and Navy Club in London, being
informed that somebody had sent to officers of the French
army a caricature, beneath which were printed some offen-
sive words, with a pretended nassesge from the club, has
offered a reward of 601. to any one who will make known the
author of this deed, thus showing how indignant the mem-
bers of the club wore at the perpetration clench an unworthy
insult."

THE SECRET OF THE AMERICAN HORSE TAMER.
—The Buffalo Advertiser intimates that it is cognisant of
the peculiar secret possessed by Mr. Rarey, the celebrated
bone-tamer now in England, and employed so successfully
by him in sobjugating the most vicious and unruly of the
equine Ines.sp The chief secret, according to the Advertiser,
consists " raising one of the fore feet of the born, doubling
the knee, and keeping a strap around the fetkock,fastening the
foot close to the arm or shoulder. The horse then stands
upon three legs. Having next put on a aurcingle, peas a
long strap or rein through the surcingle, and fastening one
end of it around the fetlock of the other fore foot, attach the
other to the sun:tingle after the ainmal is thrown, so closely as
to deprive it of the use of the limb. In this item the treat-
ment may be varied by fastening the second fetlock to the
arm or shoulder after the animal is down." This plan, says
the Adoertiaer, is successfully purrued by many skiHW
horse-brisker in Western New York, end the horse yields to
lb. necessities of the one—his spirit of opposition is broken.
KEEP COOL.—With the first regular set-to in the
House of Representatives upon the Lecompton constitution
a miscellaneous scrimmage of the border ruffian order took
place on the floor and this was rapidly followed up by a
most alarming schedule of bar-room quarrels, challenges,
duels, and rumoured duels in embryo. But with the ar-
mistice which followed upon Kansas, law and °echr were
happily restored in the federal city. Now, how-
ever, Leoompton is up again, and we would ac-
cordingly admonish all parties concerned, who are liable
to violent excitements upon the nigger question, or con-
cerning John Calhoun, Jack Henderson, or Oeo. Jim Lane,
to keep cool. Avoid as much as possible all belligerent
pereonalities, and retrench, as much es possible, in the drink-
ing of the detestable brandy and execrable whiskey with
which the bar rooms end rum holes of Panisylvaida avenue
are said to abound. It le es dangerous In Wsehington as in
Leoompton to mix up too much alcohol with this Kansas
medicine of "poppies sovereignty." It hievitably leads to
combustion, explosions, pugilistic*, and civil war. Fellow
citizens of the Senate end House of Representatives, keep
cool.—New Perk Herald, March 6.
Mr. deo. W. Kendall, of the New Orleans
Ammons, writes from his sheep meat In Texas:—" I have
pasturage fee 20,000 sheep and any number of hones and
wattle, and to see all this space covered Is now whet I am
amain for. I don't bother my mind a moment about
Karoo or Brigham Young, or politics of any kind ; don't
oars mho; is president; feu Ood and hate the Indians;
am indifferent about Walker and the devil ; try to keep my
feet nano and bead cool, and smoke my pipe in pesos with
all mankied."

ECIIPIEI3 IN LIST CENTURY.—There were two
total ee4ees of the sun during the led century. The first
on Aptir 21., 1716, when the darkness wee so great that the
birds went I. read et nun. On this occasion two eminent
French mathematicians came over to this country to make
exact canaletkas of the nature and duration of it. Dr.
Stakeley, the =dowry, thee &w rites that of 1724, in •
letter to Dr. Halley :—" I chose for my station Hendon. hill,
sear A , east from Stonehenge Avenue. It was
leaf-past flu my watch whoa they informed me that
the eclipse W . We watched ads progress by the
naked eye, se the clouds performed kr an the amnia of
alluvia glares. At the moment whin die sun was half
obscured, • very evident circular ndeliew formed at its
circumference with perfect colours. Wien the can u-
surped the appearesee of the new seen, the sky was
tolerably clear, bet it woe soon :covered with, deeper diode.
The nrabow then muddied ; dee hill grew wry dark, and
on each side the hedges exhibited • blue tint like that
at the cleat of day. Scarcely had we time to meant ten,
when Salsbury spire, six miles to the wVIIF
loped in darkness. The hill disappeared rizZy, as enve-
loped the
deepest eight spread around us. We lost *IA of the
au, whose piece till then we had bean able to ilistin-
guhth In the elands, but whose true we could now no
more discover than if it had never existed. It was now
thirtgdve minutes pest eta; shortly before the sky and the
earth had assumed • livid tint; there wee also much black
diffused through the Woods, so that the whole picture pre-
sented sa awful eloped that seemed to announce the
death of name. We were now bivalved in a total and
palpable darkness—l distinguished colours is the sun, but
the earth had lest all 16 blue, sod was entirely black: It
was the most aortal sight I had ever beheld in my life.
All the change I meld perceive during the totality was that
the horisoa by degrees thew into two parts, light and dark ,•
the northern hmisphere growing still longer, lighter, and
broader, and the two opposite dark pads uniting into one,
and swallowing up the southern enlightened 'art. At
length, upon the Ant lucid poled • og in the heavens
where the sun was, I could diaish pretty plainly a
rim of light running slanged& of es, a good while together,
or sweeping by our elbows, frees wag to east; just then,
having good made to ounces the tetalky ended, I found it
told full three minutes and • kaf. The hill tope then me
gamed their natural colour. Pnradly we heard the song of
the larks hailing the return of light, arta the prehiund
end universal silence in which everything had bees
The heavens and the earth now appeared of a grey east,
re
e
d
with blue, like the morning before sun-tin. The instant the eclipee bemme lota, till the mammies al the
sun, we saw Telma, but so other sten.",--Noiss ()wrier. •