The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1858.

from political enmities or alienation. Notwith-
standing the enmity engendered by the unfortunate
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cirenmelances under which the Called States broke
loose from us, the growth of the commercial inter-
course between the two countries never knew pause
or intermission. And Mauritius, which has been in.
eorporated into the British Empire for half a cen-
tury, continues to this day to have sore intinute
commercial relations with the Garonne than with the
Thames. Add to theme considerations, that colo-
nisation calls thus more lucrative and more cer-
tain markets into existence, adds them to those
which our merchants continue to frequent to
as great an extent as they could have done though
we had been destitute of Colonies. And, perhaps,
the INTO augmentation of the national wealth which
England derives from her Colonies is the least benefit
she owes them. Our narrow island, but for the
Colonies, would soon have become over-populated.
The Colonies not only find subsistence and
profitable employment for those who would
have been doomed to idleness and poverty at
home ; their demand for oar productions enables •
more numerous population to reside in comfort
within the island than could otherwise have done
so. They have saved us to a great extent—if more
adequately turned to account they might save us to
• still greater extent—from the demoralising in-
fluence of a surplus and pauper population. It is an
instinctive sense, rather than a definite conception of
these benefits, that has made and kept England
a colonising country. Her efforts in colonisa-
tion are, it is true, intermitting, but they
are incessantly renewed after brief intervals
of repose. From 1830 till within the last
year or two the heart of England was keenly bent
upon colonising enterprise. Within that period the
program of the British North American Provinces,
of the Cape Colony, of Tasmania and New South
Wales, has received a new impetus, while Victoria,
New Zealand, Southern and Western Australia,
have been called into existence. The brief surcease
of interest in colonial undertakings cannot last long.
And it is not the least of many favourable omens for
the future of Milford Haven that some enterprising
men have associated themselves with a view to
render it the recognised starting-point of emigrants
for New Zealand, Eastern Australia, and the new
colony of British Columbia.

PRINCE ALFRED AT HAMBURG.

(lIIT ILICTLIC AND INTBRNLTIO(AL TRLEONATII.)

(PROW OUR. OWN

HAMBURG, FIIDAT.
The royal yacht Osborne arrived and anchored
last evening at Cuxhaven ; she steamed this morning
up to Oluckatadt, where Prince Alfred and suite
landed. They then proceeded hither by the Altana
Railway, and took up their abode in apartments at
the European Hotel. This morning his royal high-
ness went on 'Change, and then visited the picture
gallery.

(PROM TR, COURT CIRCULAR.)
The Mayor of Melbourne had an interview with
the Right Hon. Sir R. Bohm Lytton yesterday. Lien-
tenant-Colonel Crawford had also an interview with the right
hon. baronet at the Colonial-Aloe

The Marpais of B&llebvy left town on Thursday night
far Um ,eats Hatfield, Herts.
were received yesterday at the Colonial-offlos
fremparrvernor of Malta, the Lord High Conunimioner
He lonian Islands, and from the Governor, of Van-
couver's Inland and Amtralia. Drapatchee were sent from
Me Celeniel-ollice to the Governors of the North American
Pomba&

OPRORNE, Sere. 2.—The Queen was this day
rto confer the honour of knighthood • upon John
at naher, Beg , chief surgeon to the Metropolitan
Polies.—Gerette.

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THZ PROPOSED ROYAL VISIT TO CANADA.—
Then la • hope, and • well-grounded hope too, that in the
mum of neat whew the people of our great American
depandandas will bees their feelings gratified by a visit front
I mow pauseima serer of the royal family, if not of the
I Quash sal the Priem assort. This Pell 11/9 aA Iliabki
ssy shvelly. We me also enabled toy that She loyal
see rtYoab eels whke hen peemplel a request
so=and le fume ruceele se sees, aro tally
la do WOW leinessa. 'We therefore,
wo may tar pane WM Ike esamelting like •
Gmett*.
oval promos *a good yest of 1859.—Literary

' - LORD CHOUTOIII.—The Wester* Tim.. announces
that • meeting will be held at the Globe Hotel on Wednesday
nut at Newton Abbott for the purpose of carrying out the
object or presenting Lord Churaton with • tribute of regard
foe bid long and faithtal services as one of the late represen-
tatives in parliament of the southern division of the county.
MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL,—An additional
week haa hem greeted to the scholars of this school, which
will mast ha the 2let Waled of the 14th Mat., in honour of
the mrtYaa of the Princess Royal. The Prime Consort
and the P Pre/ankh WMieet of Petunia are both of
them members of the Merchant Taylor.' Company.
THE SOYNI-HILL CONFESSIONAL-1 holiday, the
23d instaat., has been Axed for the opening of the commission
of inpiry imo the charges brought against the Rev. Mr.
West of Reyes-kill Church. The commissioner, have re.
mired a notification from the Bishop'. registrar to attend at
10 o'clock on that day at the town-hall, Maidenhead, where
the *airy will take place.
MATH Or T. A. SMITH, &Q.—We (North
Weiss Clireasicie) are this week called upon to record the
demise of me of the_prinolpal landowners at this neighbour-
hood—T. Asthenia Smith, Rm., of Vaeriol, Carnarvonehire,
and Tedwerth, in Wiltshire, • " hie old Emboli gentleman,
wad the olden time," at the ripe age of 82. Mr. Smith
Wee attenelvely known in aristocratic circles, and was much
admired he the bemtost4 of bin disposition. He was •
great friend of the Duke of Wellington. He wee remarkably
load of the hold mad nautical sports. He kept upon hi.
eetabilehamet a good pack of hounds, which a fa-
vourite amemment to has friends, contributed to the prime-
emirs ef his beelth, and aided to prolong his existence.
He we on Me saddle to • may recent period—
thoagh ha bas for some time been I. • state of
grades! homy. Him pleasure oteemor, which often attracted
the attention of persons passing Port Dinorwic, was noted
be speed and beauty, and fur having been built with the
laden poseibie Improvements. Ile was, at the time of hie
death, amasedors, and has been a very liberal °attributor to
the Royal Welsh Yacht Club, end extended handsome en-
meregmmat to the Bangor and other regatta, la the neigh-
bourhood. Oes of the last and most praiseworthy acts of his .
bag life was the areetios sad endowment of • district church ,
of great beauty ea the kills in the pariah of Dinorwic, the
particulars of which we lately had the pleasure of recording,
sad In which evidence of benevolence and piety ha we. I
greatly meleted by Mrs. fledth, who remain, to Lomat hie
lam R. died me Thursday sight about half-peat ten.
Tlll3l SHIPPING INTEREST.--Wit are glad to an-
hostral that Mere Is sow every probability of an important
IMMIIMMe et We port, among shipowners and the ineuraece
ommiladmoo tole • view to °kaki the halation of the govern-
MOM to the depswed state of eideping. There is, however,
hem Mimes of ”hloo as to the but mode of proceeding.
The het plea would Its he the eldpowsors of this. ports at
OM ne Iliemgmmie a mahimadoo at tie silpotrome ot the
ports at dr sottlarati rod, as ie seopeted, moms*
all airlift main to le be held about the opus.
tzarnest min of at which meeting
ass attend hen all the poet pots, had resolutions
may he passed calling on the at mos to pot is
thee the wee resemed he now, Mn.: to levy such
use es to meselprocatiag
aotiona as vill ot lotaisrna=tonag• ea meow al
=ty with hoeip_ towega is he ite IMMO to dam.
will be so 'amity fa pecarkg the atteadaece of
=rel 60 wwwltwo of perlimmot le asessagany • depots.
ibs Redd Data with a viewers whip the neemilty
Mesta ahem= of hada' tbs proposed ...erg may deem
postloabla.—Nommatb dilimands.
Pons WHIS.-411 tlie teased sale of a celebrated
mar of whoa aahagia. be Mr. A. B. Cook (a lunatic),
melee et il_ port of Quirks Colabottled in
11123 by Dr. Chitty, Mahar et &dewy herelge, Cam-
bridge, were tinselled dews at 70a. to 71s, per magnum, or
Us. per bettle.—Oimehridge airmids.
CLAuu or Brutus Somers 014 TEI 001913M-
moire or Ream,—Lint lights AMOS aosidaa a soda-
oallas al Os appolo)mat eta shot somilian Mao* OW
dim lila saw at trim Inge dile the dale of the lo-
thoogeo et iwitgeollosee of In Draillas empire bem ink
am Sr ipprommt at bat Balluste Majuty oa tam pert
ailli, anditviate individuate, subjects
eel/ h Mildra of I. and upon the govern-
ment e
ere ldl:razil on thew parttaolotcor-
s
= MOO" end GM elv:llduAlegr or are still
bur
nomilerad by Ohio( In Iwo so
to remain Wl-
able& The ammitimito ids to at at Rio de Jumbo,
at the wiled WIIMIMIMI *hi aim
Captain Joseph Daman, Commander of If. M.
meam-rheip Illamia, he received • congratulatory address
from the Moaltar of Ctomarea, of fit. John's,Newfoundland,
ea hie logertot MINN toblo. swim trod red in lying the Atlantic

INDIA AND CHINA.
The following Telegram, from Mr. Acting Coned-
General Omen, was zweeived at the Foreign-odic.,
Sept. 11, 12.30 a.m.
CORFU, Bast. 10, 6 rm.
AtILANDRIA, Ort. 7, IS/S.
The steamer Ottawa arrived at Sues howl Bombay
on the sth instant. Dates—Bombay, 19th ult. and
Aden, 29th ult.
The steamer Nemesia also arrived at Suez, from
Calcutta, on the 6th inst.

Oar adherent, Mannaingh, being besieged in the
fortress Shaligurij, by a large body of the rebels,
has been relieved by General Grant, whose whims
is now at Fysabad, where it hu been joined by
Manning and his troops.
General Robertson, having come up with the
rebels near Haturea, totally defeated them, cap-
turing four guns ; the loss of the enemy in killed
was very severe.

The Hoe. F. Brooe arrived by the Nemesis,
and prooeeded to Malta by the Pers. He is
the bearer of the Treaty concluded with the Chinese
. .

Plenipotentiaries, at Tiensin, on the 28th of June.
It was subsequently referred to the Emperor, and
received his approval.
The following are some of the stipulations of this
important document :
Christianity tolerated throughout the Empire,
and persons teaching or profeseing that religion,
whether Protestants or Rom .= Catholics, to be
'staled to the protection of the Chinese authori-
ties. Diplomatic agents may reside permanently
at Pekin. British traders protected against ex-
cessive transit duties. Tariff to be revised.
Several new ports opened to our trade, and the
free navigation of the Yang Tze declared.
British subjects may travel for pleasure or trade
to all parts of the Empire, when provided with pass-
ports from British authorities. The Governments to
act in concert for the suppression of piracy. In-
demnity for losses by British subjects at Canton to
be paid.
The steamer Lady Canning arrived at Suez
yesterday from Yombo, with the Moorish Princes,
who were pillaged on their way back from Med-
dine, having a heavy ransom. to pay for their relents.

A telegram, in the Times, states that nine new
posts in China were opened for trade, and the resi-
dence of a Chinese Ambassador In London, and of
an English ambassador at Pekin, is provided for.
Lord Elgin and Admiral Sir M. Seymour were en
rotas to Japan. At Canton disturbances and bloodshed
continued. It is stated from Calcutta that a con-
spiracy had been discovered in the 18th Punjab
Infantry, and that the 76th Regiment was involved
is it, but there is no mention of this in the Bombay
advioes. The quarantine restrictions in Egypt have
been removed.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(nom coos corm coasseeoxpurr.)

PARIE, PunA• EVENING.

The news that the Bank of England had lowered
its discount yesterday turns out to be a hoax ; and
curiously enough, an analogous false rumour with
regard to the Bank of France appears to have been
current in London. Nevertheless, the Boarse to-day
has been extremely firm. Ths Rents rose 30c. for
cash, and 40c. for account, closing at 72fr. 56c., and
72fr. 85c. Mobilier rose 40fr. There was a great
movement in some of the railway lines. Orleans
rose 22fr. 50c.; Eastern, 161 r.; Lyons, 10fr. ; and
Northern, Sfr. In the other lime there was scarcely
any ultim►te change.

Lord Palmerston left Paris at 2 o'clock this after-
noon, for Boulogne, en route for England.
_ _

I learn by private letters from Berlin that immense
efforts are making there among court intriguers, to
delay the resignation of the King, whioh every
patriotic statesman in Prussia knows to be a political
necessity. The Archduchess Sophia and other rela-
tions endeavour to form a line of civcumvallation
about the effete monarch, and to galvanise him into an
obstinate essertion that he yet pommies his faculties.
M. Dapin's speech has elicited some re-
marks from a widely circulated political correspon-
dence, which are worth noticing. M. Dupin told
his admiring fellow-en:rens of the Nidvre, that
the emulation excited by the Universal Exhibition
of Paris led to those of London ►nd Vienna. The
French writer reminds him that the Universal Ex-'
hibition in the Crystal Palace of London took place
before that of Paris. I had observed the passage
alluded to in the speech, but it struck me as refer-
ring only to a universal "cattle show," and,
although I have not now the text before me, I still
think my first impression was right. M. Dupin,
whose memory for facts is wonderful, cannot have
forgotten that the first experiment of a world's fair
was tried in London, and, moreover, upon •
scale which has never since been equalled. But
the cattle show at which we saw under the same roof
Ayrshire bulls, Kerry kine, Durham oxen, and Hun-
garian cattle, with horns a yard long, was a novelty
to the initiative of which France is entitled to claim
credit. The critic of M. Dnpin's speech stands on
surer ground when he ridicules the vanity of the
very eccentric and unfair President of the Legisla-
tive Assembly in comparing himself to an admiral
ruling a fleet amidst tremendous storms. He said
that "Admiral Remain Dadaists, an old parliamen-
tary colleague, was glad to meet his eld president,
who, like himself, had palatally navigated a ship
amidst the raging waves of assemblies and the rising
tide of factions." Upon this boast is very fairly ob-
served that the President of the Assembly had his
bell to ring—his power of calling to order—and his
power to put on his hat, and so, ipso facto, suspend
sittings. The waves of the ocean are not to be thus
dealt with. M. Dupin is in his place as Procareur-
General at the Court of Cessation—he is beyond
challenge the greatest lawyer of the day; but I do
not believe that his reputation will gain either by
an inquiry into his conduct while he sat in the chair
of the National Assembly, or at the moment when
he left it.

The growing iatluenoe of the church in the state
is, among other symptoms, illustrated by the budget
for the year of the city of Paris, which, notwith-
standing the immense burdens for public works im-
posed upon it by the law of May 19, 1858, allots for
religions edifices a sum amounting to more than
double what the municipality has ever before granted
for a similar purpose in any one year. From 1848
to 1887 900,000 fr. was the utmost ever voted by the
city for church building. During the reign of Louis
Philippe 606,000 fr. was the maximum, and under
the Restoratioe, a religious government par e rut-
itace, the maximum from 1816 to 1830 was not
more than 686,000 fr. The sum now allotted is
2,000,000 fr. At the same time the subvention to
schools, which (as the prefect says) are, in conse-
quence of the increase of population, in the most nr•
gent need of help, is only increased from 300,000 fr. to
400,000 fr. This being so, how is it (asks the &eel')
that the church is gratified with an augmentation of
more than a million while the " imperative neces-
sities" of the schools are only put off with
100,000 fr.?

A latter from Cairo, of Avast 20, mays :
A few dtasiniak:sas we bed here • groat roma of magiciaas
:lac very zany at them (their chief is smoag the
*primps. This msasurehaaheea resorted
to is taasequao• of • prophecy of the AK assaaactag that
Said Paella eras near his tad, end that Ibrahim Pasha would
encored to his throws. The Viceroy has some »aeon to be
sunned, wilts L poismbart that the death of Abbas Packs,
was Pro =i PIM short time before the munier. !Seventy-
six des those ta prism, are banished, by mdse.
Seventy-
of Sai Pad* by a town called Tosoqbet, on the banks of
the Blue Rim, in the Soudan.

The budget of news from Germany mentions the
arrival at the Isle of Ragen of Mr. Carlyle, who is
travelling over the battle-fields of Fredericl the
Great, to collect materials for a history of that
monarch.

ITALY.

THE TWO SICILIES.
(lion ors. OWN 00213SPONDINT.)

NAPLES, Ave. 31.

The following letter, which hu just been received
by a friend of one of the prisoners lately condemned
at Salerno, gives a graphic picture of the details of
their voyage, and of their entrance upon their
prison house :
" It is now the fifteenth day since oar ups,
ration, and to us it appears as though fifteen
years had pared. Cruel separation ! It has
left a vacancy in our hearts which can never
be filled up until we are once more permitted to
embrace one another, and to remain always united.
Your presence is ea necessary to us as the light of '
day ; and were it not for the firmness of our princi-
ples and the justice and holiness of our cause which
temper our grief, we should feel the weight of it
much more strongly. It will be very interesting to
you to hear some minute details of our voyage ;
and oar narrative shall begin from the beginning,
so as to enure you that that civil courage and dig-
nity which have on other occasions been observed
in the political prisoners of Salerno, have never
failed even the lowest of those now condemned—
that their chain has, on the contrary, infused into
them a fresh ardour. We will inform you, too, of
some of those indications of refined barbarity which
this government ever practises on political pri-
soners, notwithstanding the execration of entire
Europe into which it has fallen. When we came
down from the Compress' (a portion of the prison
of Salerno), we found that our Genoese brothers had
already put on the chain of martyrdom. There
were present at the scene, the executioner and his
two assistants, the inspector of police, the principal
gaoler, and the lieutenant of gendarmes. As
soon u we were ironed, we all of us, without excep-
tion, kissed our chains; and on some of us being
asked by the executioner why we did so, we replied,
' Because after much trial and suffering we
had won the brightest ornament in the world.' At
so much intrepidity and self-sacrifice the very offi-
cers were moved, and especially —. Sublime
sacrifice made to liberty in an age of corruption !
Two by two we then desoeoded into the court, where
we met that grieving mother (Madame Poggi) who,
with the courage of a true Italian matron, after
having kissed all the prisoners, exhorted us to be
firm and fearless in presence of our enemies. During
the short time that we remained we never ceased to
be cheerful and to sing. At length we moved out
of the prison, and pared through the Strada delis
Marina, which was crowded with people, who as
usual did not hesitate to show themselves grieved at
our misfortunes, and some were seen to weep. On
arriving on the beach we peseta through a double
line of the rifles, first having been scrupulously
examined both in our persons and effects, and being
deprived even of our needles. We then entered
five boats, followed and preceded by soldiers in
other boats, besides those whom we had with us.
I have omitted to say that besides the chain, we
were fastened with ropes and manacles during our
passage through the city. On getting on board the
steamer, the Stromboli, the Genoese were compelled
to go below, whilst we remained above. At the
hour of night the wheels began to cut the water,
and we bads a tender adieu to Salerno, to our
prison, and to our friends, followed by the looks
of a weeping and terrified multitude, who gazed with
horror on that moving scene. In the morning we
knew that the steamer was under the command of
Captain Caraceiolo. . . . (The orders were, to
treat them with the utmost rigour, and to attach
them to the puntale,' an iron bar). At Messina
we arrived after a voyage of 24 hours, coasting
along by the Calabria& Here our wounds were opened
afresh by being compelled to separate ourselves from
our dear brothers, who, it is said, have been sent to
the Bagno of Fevignana. After resting here a day,
we continued our route to our destination, not with-
out giving our salute to beautiful Sicily, which had
awakened within es tender recollections of the sacri-
fices she has made to preserve her liberty. Majestic
city, whose traditions and history attest too well
her grandeur! After stopping again at Brindisi and for
two days coasting along by Cape Levee, we arrived
at Pescara. The captain fired a signal for a pilot,
who, after a few moments, came alongside, and re-
ceiving his orders, returned to land. A large boat, fall
of ferocious looking policemen, then made its appear-
ance. From the steamer we were transferred
to the boat, and packed into a kind of well,
so narrow, that we were as close to-
gether as salt herrings. On landing we came
in view of the sad-looking building of the Bagno,
which, like the ancient feudal castles, rises dark and
gloomy above the river. Always surrounded by the
3rd battalion of rifles, we entered the prison amidst
the ceaseless clank of chains, and it the afflicting
sight which presented itself of shackles and of
sbirri, we could not help exclaiming, "Lasciate ogni
sperausa, voi ch' entrate." But, thanks to the firm-
ness of our principles, tyranny can never crash
us—the blood which has been shed does not destroy
us, bat linden us yet more determined. We passed
before our dwelling-place, prepared for us fifteen
days before, and I assure you that it is a true den
for wild beasts.; On arriving in the court, the
keepers ranged us in two lines and began to search
us in our persona sad baggage. They then addressed
us regarding the conduct we were to observe in the
Bagno, directing that we were to take our hats
off whenever we came into their presence.
We observed silence whilst they talked,
but did not obey the direction. After
the lapse of half an hour, the commander
of the Bagno made his appearance, and asked for
La Sala. On his being pointed oat to him, he
began by giving him a blow, saying, at the same
time, " Qul non si fa il Camorista " (you will not
play the Camorista hero). At this indignity the
young man boldly replied that his principles and his
education protested against the abject cruelty of op-
pressing the oppressed, and that he should have
well investigated an intrigue which might have cast
a stain upon him that would have been extremely
injurious. In fact, the charge was cleared up, and
it was evident that it arose from the commander's
having misunderstood the report he had received
from Salerno, in consequence of his being unable to
read well. At last our irons were taken off, and
other larger and heavier chains were put on. On
fastening the chains upon Tacohio, the com-
mander haling ordered the sbirro -to make
him rich by giving him a bit more of iron,
the courageous youth replied, " You say well,
Signor Commandants, for I value this chain above all
treasure. Our cheerfulness and oar firmness are
measureless ; our chain, far from being a weight, is as
a precious ornament to us ; since we have this con-
sciousness, that it is not that which criminals wear
in expiation of their sins, bat that which is worn by
illustrious martyrs, already marked in the book of
immortality. We have found here twenty of our excel-
lent brothers who salute you warmly, but we have
held no intercourse with them, for we are separated
from all in the den I have described above, where
we receive light by three airholes two palms long
and one palm wide, &c , &c."
The details given in the early part of this letter
have been already made known. I publish it in
order to give an insight into the present life of these
men, and to show forth the indomitable spirit by
which these men are animated. There are thou-
sands like them, and it is the grossest folly imagi-
nable on the part of this government to think that
Italians can be kept down b' oppression. The
sooner that a return is made to Justine the better for
the security of the reigning dynasties, and for the
pease of this unhappy land.

TURKEY.

(FROM OTYR SPECIAL COILUISPONDINT.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, !Arr. I.

The put week has been a stirring one at the
Porte. Still full of the new-born energy which bore
fruit, the week before, in the displacement of the
Grand Muter of the Ordnance, and in the appoint-
ment of the Committee of Inspection into the Debts
of the Civil List, the Sultan, without previous
notice to anyone, betook himself on Friday, after
mosque, to the Bureau of the Grand Vizier and,
summoning thither the whole of the Ministers, reed
them such a lecture u has not fallen on Pashalistic
ears since the ticklish days of Mahmoud. An im-
perial hdt (edict) on the state of the Treasury—in
which all Departments of the Government *ere rated
for their lavish extravagance and want of probity,
with the expression of his Majesty's firm resole ies
to insist on the most vigorous financial reforms fat
every branch of the Administration—form& the
text, so to speak, of a harangue, which
" touched up" the astounded dignitaries in a
style of diction not often used by royal lips. las
assured, indeed, by a friend, whose informant was
one of the functionaries addressed, that such a storm
of abusive epithets—and Turkish is specially rich
in these aids to vigorous speech—never burst upon
Divan before ; nothing like it, in fact, had been
heard at the Porte since the good old times when
Sultauic wrath need to find vent in basting Vizierild
jaws with the ready pipe-etick or slipper.
_Bat all this was only precursive to worse. On
Saturday his Majesty again repaired to Stamboul,
and, calling another meeting of the whole goverie:
went posse, singled out Mehemet Ali Pasha, his owe
brother-in-law, and Minister of Marine, for @pedal
reproach, upbraided him with wholesale ma .ad-
ministration at the Arsenal, and dismissed IshU
from his office. Passing then fromplt
governmental mal-practices to the an
abuses of the imperial household and those
of his married daughters, he turned to his four sons-
in-law, Ali Uhalib, Ethem Mahmoad, and 11-hami
Pubes ; and after rating all four with equal force of
diction for the lavish extravagance of their wives
and of their establishments Ili nerally,degraded them

too—the first from his post of Minister of Commerce,
and the other three from their lucrative sinecures in
the Supreme COORCiI. The effect which all this pro-
deeed upon the assembled body of Ministers—
excepting Rises Pashs, who was specially praised for
his patriotic energy—may be more easi imagined
than described. Each self-convicted dignitary
momentarily expected his own official annihilation
and all breathed easily and with gratitude to the
Prophet, when nothing worse followed than the ex-
pression of his Majesty'e intention to reduce by about
ass third the salaries of all the high officers, civil and
military, of the State, and to out down the absurdly nu-
merous personnel of the Supreme Council to a maxi-
mum of 12 members, whose salaries shall be lowered
in like manner. Since Saturday, the poste rendered
vacant by these dismissals have been re-filled by the
appointment of Mehemet Kipriali Pasha, previously
President of the Council of Tansimat, to the Ministry
et Marine ; and of Mahmotid Puha, now Minister
ei
interim of Foreign Affairs, to that of Commerce,
vacated byAli Ghalib ; while Mehemet Rusbdi Pasha,
the ex-Master of the Ordnance, becomes Chief of the
Tanzimat, and the three seats in the Supreme Council
et State remain empty. Such are the modifications;
i propos of which I need merely remark that the
new Capudan Pasha, Mehemet Hipriali, was for-
merly Ambassador at London, and that he is
strongly pro-French in his political sympathies.
To the local excitement produced by these energetic
doings of the Sultan is now added that which was
yesterday occasioned throughout Galata by the
telegraphic news of the loan at length effected in
London. As you are already', doubtless, perfectly ac-
quainted with all the details of this transaction, I
need do little more than say that the terms, 6,000,0001.
at 85 per cent, with 6 per cent. interest, and 2 per
cent. commission, are here considered to be very fa-
vourable for the Government. The doings at the
Porte, on Friday and Saturday, above referred to,
had already brought down the exchange from 1731
to 170, but the telegram announcing the loan at
once increased the fall to 1601, which, since this
morning, has further sunk to 166, with every pros-
pect of a rapid additional decline. It is not proba-
ble, however, that the fall will go below 140, if it
even reach that figure; for the actual 41 millions, ar
so, of the loan has many a wide gap to fill, even if
honestly doled out. That it will, nevertheless, have
an excellent present effect upon the local trade,
both import and export, there can be no
doubt ; for, dependent as this place is upon Go-
vernment transactions, the condition of the 'Trea-
sury is at all times the measure of its activity. If
past experience of the futility of reliance upon the
promises and "good intentions" of the Government,
paraded with ever so much patriotic unction, did not
make one distrustful of even its most
re apparently
since pledges of reform, some degree of -hopeful-
ness might be excited by this spasmodic energy of
the Sultan ; but, in view of his utter effeteness, men-
tal as well as bodily, and of the prescriptive corrup-
tion that taints and pervades every department of
the administration, one's faith is sorely tried.
An immediate consequence of the loan, of conrekl
is the falling to the ground of the Society en emu
nsandite for the maintenance of the exchange at 160,
by the supply of 800,0001. worth of bills at that
price.
Unfortunately for the Government, the °entree'
with the members of this Society was signed by the
Minister of Finance on Saturday evening, some 66
hours before the news of the loan reached the Porte,
which is thus " let in" for the 16,0001. COMM;l1dill
(at 2 per cent) on the transaction. Though no ire*
has yet been issued on the subject, there can be bat
little doubt that this will be insisted on by the
Society, of whose ability, by the way, to carry sat
its own share of the bargain very few had hopes.
Since I last wrote, Mr. Longworth's report has
been received by Sir H. Bulwer from Candia, and it
entirely disproved, as I was prepared to expect it
would, the whole of the charges made against Mt.
Ongley, our Consul in the island. Instead of his
having connived at the "oppression" of Vely Pasha
for corrupt purposes of gain, the report declares
(so I am assured) that Mr. Ongley did more this
the whole of the other Consuls together towards
furthering the just demands of the malcontents,
whilst at the same time he as strongly refrained
from lending himself to the French and Austrian
plot for the overthrow of the Governor. Of Vely
himself, Mr. Longworth, I understand, speaks in
terms very different from those employed by his
Consular libellers, and rebuts—so far as the testi-
mony of a non-resident in the island can do so—tbe
charges of corruption and fanaticism which have
been so industriously and loudly circulated to hie
prejudice. In the meantime Mr. Ongley has gene
to Jauy to administer the C.onenlate there, which Imo
been left suddenly vacant by the death of Mr. Gus.;
diner.

On Saturday morning a very extensive seizure of
false mimes was made at the Custom-House on the
person and in the trunks of a lady passenger by the
Liverpool steamer. She had joined the ship at Byre,
and on landing, in all the Flory of a gorgeous toi-
lette and immeasurable crinoline, attempted to get
through the hands of the officials by the generally
quick and easy agency of a beckeliesels: but whether
from a vicious pruriency to plumb the crinoline, or
through legitimate suspicion excited by its unusual
Diu, the Bey insisted on subjecting the ;luckless
fair one to an examination, which resulted in the
discovery of 80,000 piastres in false notes, stowed
away in the mysterious amplitudes of her vetements
de dessous. Between the false bottoms of her trunks
were discovered some four millions of piastres, of
the same spurious manufacture, all admirably
executed. The fair sinner, who is said to belong to
a wen'thy Moldavian Bayard family, was forthwith
conaigned to the loathsome misery of the Turkish
prison, the authorities making a general confiscation
of the whole of her effects, with the crinoline to
boot.