The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1858.

posing the wrong done them by the Mocambique
Court, if wrong had been done. In their appeal they
would have had the active support and setistanoe of
the Eitentoa's Government; and had any injustice
been confirmed, then the French Government
could have made a national question of the dispute.
Moreover, it had just obtained, in the case of the
French Sisters of Charity, complete proof that
where wrong the Portuguese Government was not
backward in acknowledging the fact and in giving
satisfaction and redress. Instead of that, the Etc-
?mos has preferred a resort to violence and insult,
has interrupted the coarse of justice in Portugal, and
has humiliated the Government of an independent
State simply because it had no force sufficient to resist.

And this course France has pursued in spite of
and notwithstanding two considerations. First,
that in • case of dispute not very dissimilar between
Portugal and the United States relative to a ship
called the General Armstrong, the differences
on that occasion, which at one time threat-
ened • rupture, were at last mutually re-
ferred to the arbitrament and decision of no other
power but France herself under its present sove-
reign. Secondly, that this is exactly such • case as
comes under the principle of reference adopted by
the great Powers of Europe in the Conferences of
Paris; and it lithe utter disregard of that principle
on the first occasion to which it was applicable that
is calculated to give so deep an offence to Europe.
In its place we have an overweening arrogance and
• pernicious violence brought to the solution of a
political difficulty which go far to persuade us that,
be the Empire what it may, it is not the rule of
Pew based on Justice.

Cbt Coun.

WINDSOR., Oar. 26.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with the
Prince of Wales, Princess Alioe, Prince Alfred, Prince
Arthur, Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, walked on
the &at Tenses yesterday afternoon, attended by the ladies
and gentlessea la wait*.
Sir John Paldeglos accompanied the royal party.
The Queen, with Princess Alice, rode out on horseback
this morning.

In attondrace were the Cotentin of Caledon, the Earl of
Virulent, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Prince Consort, atcompaied by Prince Alfred, went
out shooting.
The Prince of Lebanon joined his Royal Highness.
The Prince of Wake returned to the White Lodge in the
foresooo, attended by Mr. Gibbs and Major Lindsay.
Prince George of Saxony visited her Majesty, and returned
to London in the afternoon.

The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington hat taken his
Sepertnre.

Mr. Cartier, Mr. Galt, and Mr. Rose had an interview
with Sir Edward Salyer Lytton yesterday, in the Colonial-
atEcs. Colonel Moody had also an interview yesterday with
the right boa. baronet.

n— .11111$6N from the Lord High Commissioner of the
balsa lolanda and from the Governor of Heligoland were
reopived yesterday at the Colonial-odloe.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--(TIII8 DAY.)—This
nzoraing the marriage of Lady Katherine Elizabeth Handing
fourth daughter of the Marquis of Absroorn, Groom of the
Stole to His Royal Highness the Prince Coneort, sad Wil-
liam Henry, Viscount Valietort, eldest son of the Earl of
Mount Edgcombs, was soleinniaed at Bt. Jaroes'a-church,
Piccadilly.
The I)ake and Duchess of Manchester arrived in
tows yesterday from viaiting the Earl and Countess of
Derby, at Knowsley. Their grams will leave to-day for
their soak Kimbolton Cut* Huntingdon.
Emily Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies
Somenet ere shortly expected in town from a tour in Boat-
load.

The Countess (Dowager) of Lichfield and Lady
fierandotema Anson have arrived at Lord Elcho's residence,
in fit. lames's-place, from the Contineat.
Visoount and Vi4counteas Palmerston left town
riftirdsy for Broadlands.

Lady Mary Wood and Miss Wood bare been
_1 daring the past weak at Hold= Roll, on a visit to
the Lit sod Cosmoses Ore,. The Right Ron. 8w Charlie
Wood ward= it Hickletres Hell, Yorkahint, where greet
shoemtkes sad Improvements are baler added forward.
Mr. Wool, fla Charlie Wood's eldest son, he. jar altered
Christ Man* Oxford.

By 8114111161.1 Hall, M.P., arrived at Turin on
the 21S has Kilts, on Ids way 03 Ragland.

A lam party of the officers surviving the cele-
brated Light Cavalry charge at Be'Alava dined together at
this Leaflet Tavern last avesing. The Earl of Laos; K.C.8.,
ceeepled the chair.

It appears that the death of Sir Edward Butler
as Ilaredllen Wok piece ander very painful citeametaacee.
flir lidwrd, who bad arrived with Lady Butler by the wail
train trod Paris, expired as he was being carried into hie
epelnuale at the Heed d'Orient. He appears to have been
la the led dap et a palsoswry disease.

A Dublin morning journal announces briefly the
approaching union of the Earl of Rglintoun with the Hon.
Lady Adele Coped, daughter of the Earl of Essex.

Professor Nichol is to give a lecture, in the City
Gallery, Glasgow, on Friday evening, 6th November, on the
mast med.

Several members of the two Chambers dined with
the Prince Regent of Pnuata on Saturday.
M. H. Wienawaky, the celebrated violinist an-
nounced la M. Jathen's programme, has arrived at
Brussels from Dresden, sad Is shoat kering for London,
where areal engegemente await him.

From a letter received on Saturday from Alex-
ander Diana, It appears that that Indefatigable writer haa
renovated hoot his lab illness, and has left St. Potarabarg on
a tour Into Maria.

A letter from Venice in the Opirsione of Turin
slates that the 'naivetes/I of the death of Meath was cele-
brated at Venice by a religiose teroweey, is the thumb of
Bea Michels di Maputo. sad that the polies did sot interim

A letter from Dresden, in the Zeit, says, " Mr. F.
B. Forbes, British minister at our court. is so ill that his life
is despaired of. It was sot long sines that the twenty-fifth
easivereery of his reason is our city wee oslebratad. By
his wanness sots of bensvoienos .sd by his great aoketlfie
kaowiedge, Kr. Forbes has gained the worts and respect of
everybody."

M. Remain, first drogman of the French Con-
eelate.Gatersa et Teats, her been appointed Free& Caned
at Jeddah. Y. Boeotian, who understands all the different
Amble dialects, le the firth consul eppointed to that poet
slate the lastltetion at the conatdate in 1844.

The appearance of the comet created an immense
sennetha la Egypt , fur several dye all bushier and leboar
elm et • eleedetill, the inhabitants believing that It fore-
boded erme pest calamity.

A latter from Toronto, of the I I th, saye—" Hie
armilessey 81r N. Head, accomgenled by Lard Sedebedt,
left the seat of government het week en a sheatlng escar-
oles, sad it la his intention to temp eat la the hose, end
get a little experience of the wild sports of Canada. Lady
Used sad Lady Radstock are nejoaraleg at Niagara. The
town Is senessively dell, sad the weather equally so. The
Sweet, however, looks most beantifol, glorying is every pos-
sible UM that smarm can petal upon the het chopping
leaves. The comet Dm bees maguiflonst doting the poet

soneequence of the great and progressive de-
terioration of ilk worms in Europe, two Venetians Maw-
seled la the IA trade—Coants Frisch! sad Ca..stallmd—liave
determined to setiortalre a journey to the Caspian Bse,
Persia, India, end Chits, la order to study the 'plan of the
maaagentest of the eilk worm in those aboriginal easatries,
and to bring horns a quantity of spawn from the beet plante-
none, in order, if poamble, to improve the breed at home.
The °evertor-General of Lombardy has imbed the Freeelt

government to patronise this spirited pilgrimage, and the
Minister of Commerce hu strongly recommended it to the
consideration of ibn silk growiag districts of France. MM.
Freschi and Castelltni hope to return from their Barney by
the end of next year.

LATEST INTtLLIGENCE.

INDIA.

MONDAY, Oct. 25, 1868, 4.69 p.m.
The following message has been received at the
East India-house :

TO JAPES C. Kavnu, ESQ., INDIA-HM:IBN, LONDON.

From H. L. ANDERSON, Esq., -
Secretary to Government.
Dated Bombay, Sept. 27, 1868.
OUDE.

A successful attack on a body of rebels, numbering
about 3,000, posted on an island of the Gogra,
took place on the 19th instant. Two oompanies of
Europeans, the Kupperthela Contingent, and some
of Hodson's Horse, attacked and drove them out of
their entrenched position on the island, killing, it
is reported, 1,000. The Artillery fire did great exe-
cution among the fugitives, and also sunk two boats
laden with the enemy.
_ _

Two of the rebel leaders are reported to be among
the slain. The British loss not severe.
CENTRAL INDIA.

The Owalior rebels nre still at Sarongs, but it is
thought that they will make an attempt to cross the
Nerbudda, betwef u &ego, and Bile. The follow-
ing are the present positions of three columns of
British troops serving in Central India:—Major-
General Michel, commanding Malwa field force, at
Bilsa; Brigadier Parke, with Neemuch field force,
at Sarungpoor ; and Brigadier Smith, moving with
his force from Goona towards Serooge.
The first cavalry reinforcement for Central India,
consisting of Guzerat and Gaekwar Horse, from
Dohad, under the command of Captain Buckle, we
expected at Oojein yesterday.
The Bombay Presidency is quiet.
H. 1.. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle, Sept. 27, 1858.
V. MONTANARO.
Malta, Oot. 25, 1858.

THZ
CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

(IT SCINJOUII AND 111TDI1 TILNGRAPN.)

Cram( OUR owx

MALTA, TIIIIIID/LT.
Advioea have arrived from Hong-Kong to Sept.
11; and Calcutta, Sept. 22.

An earthquake has been felt at Akyab.
The Calcutta produce market is active; imports
dull; money abundant ; freights lower. Exchange,
28.01 d. to 2c Old.

At Madras there is no improvement in imports;
In exports little is doing. The money market Is
easy. Freights low ; tonnage abundant. In ex-
change no alteration.

Hong Kong.—Trade dull. Exchange, 4a. 4d. to
4e. sd.

Shanghai, Sept. 2.—lmporta and exports little
doing. Silk firm. Exchange, lis. I Id. to Is. Old.
Canton, Sept. 7.—Nothing doing in imports or
exports.

Macao, Sept. 9.—Fair business done in tea.
Freights tending downwards.

Poo-Chow, August 31.—Increased activity in the
tea market.

Singapore, Sept. 28.—Imports active. Produce
in good demand. Exchange, bank bills, six months,
46. 41d.

EXPRESS Fltol PARIS.

(IRON 00/ OWN col

PARIS, 11110NDAT Evai:ime.

You will have seen that the Moniteur indirectly
confirms my correction of and addition to the
despatch from Portugal, published by the Parris of
last eveciog. The Moniteur, by merely stating
that the Portuguese government " has decided on
giving up the Charles Georges, and setting Captain
Rouxel at liberty," shows that " all" is not finished,
and that the assertion that Portugal " paid the in-
demnity demanded, without recourse to arbitration,"
was not authentic. Moreover, the curt and un-
courteous manner in which the affair is noticed
contrasts strangely with the jubilations of the
Constautionna and Patric at the rammed frank
and handsome manner in which the King of Por-
tugal had " disavowed his agents," and
acknowledged th►t France was in the right. I re-
peat, and the fact will be universally known in
a few hours, that the Portuguese government pro-
tested, and expressly said, on giving up the Charles
Georges, that it yielded not to right but to force.
The Moniteur, I must observe, has small considera-
tion for those of its readers, and they are many,
who never see any other paper. They know nothing
whatever about the Charlie Georges, or the appear-
ance of French and English ships before Lisbon.
While all the other papers in Europe were talking
about these things, the Moniteur was perfectly
silent. One understands that an official journal
should be less loquacious than others, but it ought
at any rate to take the pains to make its files intel-
ligible.
A Portuguese journal, the Nacional, of Porto,
publishes a letter, dated Lisbon, Oct. 16, which
says:

Our goverament has oalled upon England, vebtoh has
bream* us into our present state of embarrsamment with the
Premix government, to help no out of it. It appears to be
beyond doabt that the answer of the Boglish government
wee that it could take no part In the question helm= Por-
tugal and Frame. Between the lion end the drop, Lug-
land, attentive to her own Interests above evarking, not-
withstandbag all her philanthropy, will never Whale kw a
swami to side with the strongest party.

The Pays, protesting against the "insinuations"
of the Portuguese journal disparaging the " loyalty"
of the English government, asserts that England
did in fact refuse to interfere from the first, and
that her conduct him been most "

Some days ago the Univers published a catalogue
raisenni of the Lisbon newspapers, and made out
that, with the exception of two or three nitro-
montane organs of its own kidney, they were all
sondacted by a set of low radicals and socialists.
Thirty-six editors of Portuguese journals have now
sent a protest to the French papers against
this calumny. A great fuss has been
made in Paris about alleged insults to Faso&
Sisters of Charity in Lisbon, for which it has
been sought to hold the Portuguese government and
nation responsible. The Jesuitic journals have even
frequently insinuated that the Preach naval demon-
stration in the Tagus was as much provoked by the
affair of the Sisters of Charity as by that of the
Charles Georges. It appears from the memorial
which embodies the almost unanimous testisioay of
the Portuguese pries, that there is no other foundation
for the grievance than a manifestation of curiosity
and surprise not always unmixed with derision,
among a fraction of the lowest and most ignorant
classes at the appearance in the streets of Lisbon of
women in a costume which appeared very strange in
their eysi. But these vulgar manifestations Irltr• with
one voice condemned by the journals, even by those
which, as a matter of policy, are more strongly op-
posed to the novelty of the introduction into Por-

total of establishment• of Sisters of Charity for the
purpose of educating children. The Portuguese
press, while claiming the right of a nation to free
discussion on • subject affecting its institutions,
customs, and prosperity, protests in the most solemn
manner against unfounded statements, which can
only have been suggested to its brethren of France,
Spain, England, and Belgium by false and doubtless
malevolent assertions.

The departure of the Court for Compiegne, which
has been postponed for a few days, stands fixed at
present for Nov. 3. To-day the Emperor has been
shooting at Rambouillet, where there is a great deal
of game that wants killing. Count Walewski, Lord
Cowley, and Baron James Rothschild, were of the
Party
The Bourse has been doll. The Rent. fell sc. for
cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 72fr. 93c. and
73fr. Mobilier fell 15fr. The railways were about
2tr. 60c. lower. The note in the Moniteur, from its
coldness towards Portugal, had a prejudicial effect
rather than otherwise.
It is stated that orders have been received at Brest
for the embarkation of five companies of Marines
for China.

It is now, I believe, quite certain that the
Emperor has resolved to build a new opera house.
A year ago, when the pretty Hotel d'Osmond, oppo-
site the Rue de la Paix, was pulled down, a report that
the new opera was to be built on the site was indig-
nantly denied by authority. Nevertheless, there
was much foundation for the report, and the scheme
for establishing the new opera there is even yet on
the tapir. A rival project is, however, under con-
sideration for building an opera house on the south
side of the Place de la Concorde, which would
harmonise in point of architecture with the Ministry
of Marine on the opposite aide. I venture to offer
the opinion that such a building would spoil the
fine view of the river and the quays from the
Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysees, and
would be otherwise an eyesore, besides being an en-
croachment on a principal public promenade.
Wherever the new house may ultimately be, it will,
I believe, be made to hold a much larger audience than
the present one. The house in the Rae Lepelletier
will scarcely hold more than 7,000 fr., and it is pro-
poeed, with a slight rise in prices, to bring the
nightly receipts up to 15,000 fr. The architect has
an ingenious plan for warming the lobbies, so as to
prevent ladies from taking cold while waiting for
their carriages; and it is intended to insist upon
evening dress for gentlemen, ea is done, or at least
supposed here to be done, in London.

(MON 0171 OWN

BERLIN, Oar. 23.

All Germany has its eyes wistfully turned towards
Berlin, and watching with intense interest the pro-
gress of events. People are waiting to see if the
constitutions granted to so many other German
States, but hitherto only existing on paper, cannot
also be brought forth from the musty archives in
which they have been doomed to lie so ignominiously
forgotten, whilst even to mention them has been an
offence not far short of high treason. Ever since the
triumph of reaction in Prussia the Liberals have
been everywhere obliged to hide their heads, for,
being without any acknowledged leader or any
organisation, they saw that for the moment
their cause was hopeless, and that the only course
left for them to pursue was to remain quiet and bide
their time. And indeed where could they look for
countenance and protection P If they turned to
Austria, they found that that power had quite
enough on its hands in putting its own affairs in
order. Austria, moreover, regards political and

ecclesiastical absolutism as thefouudition stone of
her own existence. All the other German States—
Hanover, Bavaria, Hesse—had thrown themselves
into the arms of the reactionary party, to the almost
total annihilation of the moderate Liberals and deri-
sion of constitutional principles.

Two minor States alone, whose sovereigns, though
usually called " petty," deserve the greatest praise
and gratitude of all tree patriots—the Grand Duke
of Saxe-Weimar and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, in spite of all intrigues, remained firm to
the cause of freedom, and, though too small and of
too little weight in the councils of the Bundestag to
have any great influsnoe on the general policy of
Germany, they have held their own with Regular
tenacity, and formed the nucleus around which all
the friends of liberty rally.
Now that the dawn of a better day has broken
over Prussia, the Liberals of other parts of Germany
are not without hope that the expected sunshine of
constitutional liberty will penetrate to her most dis-
tant confines, and illuminate the inhabitants of the
lesser States. Prussia is now on the point of being
put on her trial. In the elections which are about
to take place it will be seen if Prussia is worthy of
taking her seat as a constitutional European power.
If her people are true to themselves, there can be no
doubt of the result. The Regent le determined to
act with perfect fairness and impartiality, for at his
immediate instigation the provisional Minister of
' the Interior, Hey von Flottwill, has addressed a
circular to all the civil authorities in the kingdom,
requiring them to desist from influencing the voters
in any way, and merely to see that the elections are
conducted with due order and with no infraction of
the public tranquillity.
In all the sessions of the legislative bodies hitherto

held alterations have been made in the original con-0
stitntion under the pretext of improvements and
revisions, which have seriously endangered its very
existence. To these evil tampering§ it ought to be
no longer exposed, but rather guarded with the most
rigid jealousy. That this, however, -cannot be
secured with the present defective composition of
the Chambers is quite clear. If anything were
wanting to demonstrate the necessity of fresh elec-
tions, it would be found in the division of yesterday
in the House of Representatives, where fie motion
of the feudal Count Arnim-Baitsenburg, backed by
the whole of the %rag Zestung party, was only
thrown out by a majority of four, which is by far too
small a majority to reckon on under any other cir-
cumstances than with such a feeling as prevails on
the absorbing subject now before the house.
The Prussian House of Commons has at no period
of its brief existent* mustered so numerously as on
this interesting occasion. According to its present
formation it should consist of 352 members, of
whom, however, 12 have died or resigned their seats
since the last elections, thus making the actual
number 340, and of these no less than 333 are now
assembled here.

An after-dinner speech made by the Minister of
War, General ConntWaldersee, in which, at a military
banquet given in his own house, when proposing the
health of the King and Queen, he seriously ascribed
to the latter the investiture of the Prince of Prussia
with the regal authority, has crested oonsiderable
sensation, not unmixed with surprise, amongst those
who are better informed as to the part her Majesty
really performed in the late memorable political
drama. " The Queen," said his Excellency, "is not
only the affectionate and tender nurse of her illus-
trious patient, but setting aside the scruples enter-
tained by his medical advisers, and having her
attention only turned towards the prosperity and
well-being of the state, she induced the King to
override all the difficulties of the situation of affairs
and delegate the royal authority to the Prince of
Prussia as Regent of the kingdom!"