The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-28 00:00:00

CHINA.

From Nanking native reports come to hand
speak of disturbances among the soldiery in the
provincial capital. Alter having dissipated their
wages in gambling, the men have taken to squeez-
ing and robbing the inhabitants, with a view to
recruit their funds. The viceroy has beheaded
54 men convicted of, these crimes.
A placard has been issued at Hunan, advocating
the massacre or expulsion of foreigners, especially
English.
The heat has been excessive at Shanghae this.
season: The Shanghae News says :
The summer has closed with a list of deaths hem re
heat and exhaustion long enough to snake the hatdiest
consider what means are available to brace his constitution
against the enfeebling icfinence of July and August in
coming years, or how he may beat recruit its strength and
restore its tone after such weather's the continued near-
ness of the mercury to 100 degrees of Fahrenheit indicates.
Heat apoplexy thin year has taken the place of cholera,
and has carried off nearly as many victims as previous epi-
demic& Chinese suffered as heavily as foreigners, notwith-
standing the careful avoidance of artificial stimulants,
which we are told the wisdom of a hundred generations
has taught them.
An arrangement has been made whereby tele-
grams for transmission sad Kiatcha can by being
delivered to the Russian consulate at Tientsin or
the Russian Telegraphic Agency at Peking, be
transmitted to all parts of Europe. The telegrams
will be despatched from Peking to Kiatcha by the
earliest opportunity after receipt, a messenger
leaving regularly once a week. At Hong Kong a
final memorial from foreign residents against tho
r' Stamp Act, for transmission to Earl Carnarvon,
• has been sent to the governor. It bears 301
signatures.

JAPAN.

The Japan Herald of September 29th, announces
that the Tycoon died at Osisea about three weeks
previously, of a disease resembling dropsy unknown
in Europe, but to which Japanese are liable, and
called by them Kake. It adds :
lie was very inert by nature, and although sympathy is
felt for one dying so young, &adjust as family endearments
were commencing with him, yet for the good of the
country a much more able man was requisite. This we
are led to expect in his successor, Stotsbaahi, for whom the
Gorogio have unanimously voted and made known their
choice to the Mikado—and Stotsbashi is now in full charge
of the government. We have further information to the
effect that three powerful dainsios Iwsmi, Bizen and
Inshin, whose territories are between Kioto and Nagato--,-
and who hesitated to join the late Tycoon—have not only
sent in their adherence to Stotsbashi, but also a contingent
to aid his cause. The official promulgation of Stotbashi's
appointment is not yet made, owing to much time being
neoess.u7 for going through preliminary forms. There
was a rumour that he hail been murdered, but it is denied
on high authority.
The Japan Times says :
Our latest newt from she seat of war in the Inland Sea
induce us to hope that we are approaching the beginning of
the end. We must premise that there is now no doubt
whatever of the truth of the reports we have lately, from
time to time published of the progress of the war in the
South, as the Gorojiu themselves have officially acknow-
ledged the defeat of their chief. But we have since bad
news whinklearlys to believe that a peaceful solution of
the difficulty may yet be possible. The Prince of Kanga,
one of the most important daimios of the empire, has
offered his services as mediator between the contending par-
ties, and has made to Chosen overtures for an honourable
peace. In reply, the Prince of Nagato has issued a mani-
festo in which he states the terms upon which be will con-
sent to lay down his arise. He commences by recapitu-
lating the victories he has won, and the towns and
villages which Le has either burnt or taken, and
the amount of treasure, guns, munitions of war,
and stores which have fallen into Lis bands in
the affairs of Sekishiu. Osengaws, Tanaoura, and Dari.
The Shogoon's troupe, this curious state paper proceeds to
say, have only gained one, and that a temporary, success,
one too, which reflects more disgrace upon the arms of the
Yedo chief than any of the defeats which his generals have
suffered. This was at the isle of Ooshima, which was
bombarded for five days, and finally taken without resist-
ance, there being in the place no soldier', none but inof-
fensive peasants and fishermen, who, with their women
and children, were massacred without mercy. Cbiosiu,
with justice, reprehends in the strongest language this
shameful deed, and proceeds to show how, on the ap-
proach of his own people to the relief of the place, it was
immediately evacuated by the Shogoon's men, and remains
at this moment in his possession. Considering himself,
therefore, master of the situation, he states that the
terms on which ho will consent to lay down his arms
arc A public acknowledgment of his innocence
of the crimes imputed to him by the Shogoon.
2. An apology from that chief for having aspersed
his character before the Mikado and foreigners ; and
3. Permission to retain all his conquests. We cannot but
think that thew terms of his must be accepted, lest harder
ones be shortly proposed. Chiosiu boasts, with but little
exaggeration, that he has five rifles to the Shogoon's one.
For two years past he has been assiduously drilling his
troops, and his easy victories' have Leen won by mere
force of superior anus and discipline. At the same time it
is more than suspected that serious disaffection exists
in the ranks of the Shogoon's army. As for the contin-
gents off the " Fudia " Daimios, or feudal vassals of
the Shogoonste, the majority of them are armed with the
old national swords and bows and arrows, and the defeats
they have sustained when injudiciously meeting Chiosin's
Enfields and Blakeley fieldpiece's, have been mere
slaughter and utter rout. Chiosin represents the inde-
pendent Dsimios ; his success means free trade with the
whole of. Japan, instead of a monopoly of foreign commerce
by the Shogoon alone, for his own ports now open.
The Cyclone, with coals from Sydney to Shang-
hae, has been totally lost on the Japan coast.
Several of the crew were drowned. The survivors,
first mate and two seamen, were treated kindly by
the Japanese, and taken by them to Yokohama.
More steamers are said to have been purchased by
the government.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING ON THE TEMPORAL
POW EFL—Last night, at the anniversary dinner of the
Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged and Infirm
Poor—the oldest Roman catholic charitable association in
London—Archbishop Blanning presided. In proposing the
first toast, " The Health of the Sovereign Pontiff Pope
Pius 1X.," he said that there now were clangers at Lome
and abroad impending over every nation that made men
feel that the temporal power of the Pope--hate it as they
might—was the keystone of a certain civil and Christian
order upon which depended the happiness and order of
all Christian states. lie was perfectly confident that
that sentiment was to be found in France—upon
the throne of that country ; it was to be found
in Austria; it was still more powerful in Prussia after its
recent victories ; it was to he found in England, with Ire-
land by her side. He wished to mention a saying attri-
buted, and be believed correctly attributed, to his Bullpen.
It was said that the other day a person of great authority
c uue to his Holiness and told him that the time for the
departure of the French army was near at hand, and that
their departure would be followed by events of great
seriousness. "In fact," he said in conclusion, " Apres
moi is deluge." The Holy Father smiled and said, " From
Holy Writ we know there will never be another deluge,
therefore lam not raid." This saying well represented
his calm, unwavering trust and confidence, not in princes
of the earth, for in them ho put no confidence, hut in that
higher power on whose protection be has reposed during •
pontificate of twenty years of trial and glory. The toast
was drunk with great enthusiasm, as was also the health
of the Queen, proposed by his graceimmedistelzafterwards.
MR. GEORGE LIINOI-CONYNGHAM. --,-The death
is ennounoed of the chief clerk of the Foreign-office, Mr.
George Lenox-Conyngham, after a period of nearly fifty
years public service. Mr. Conyngliam's death took place
somewhat suddenly, after an operation.
ENFRANCHISEMENT or WOMEN. -A committee
has been formed having for its object the abolition of the
legal disability which at present debars women, as such,
from voting for members of parliament. It is proposed
to present to parliament during the ensuing session two
petitions, one signed exclusively by unmarried wo
that
men
and widows, qualified to vote in all respects except
of sex ; the other, by of all classes, both men and
women. Copies of e petitions and further information
may be obtained on application to the honorary secretary,
Mrs. W. Smith, 2, Warrington-mtecent, Loudon, W.

The winter course of lectures of the Young
Metes Christian Association commenced yesterday e►ening
at Exeter-hall, before a crowded sad most attentive audi-
ence. The Right Hon. the LORD Maros presided, and •
opened the proceedings with a few judicious obser►ations•
He congratidatml the meeting and himself on the benefi-
cial change which had come over the commercial mind in
the present day. It bad now come to be recognised that
man was born for something else, and bettor, than mere
business drudgery. It was admitted that he had a mind
to be cultivated, and ought to have leisure to be enjoyed.
As a consequence, counting-house and warehousemen's
hours bad been curtailed, and the time thus
gained was appropriated by our young men to
the acquiremeot of knowledge and the enjoyment
of literature ; whilst their employers were beginning
to discover that the young man who ro employed his leisure
was a meth better, because a more intelligent, clerk or
warehouseman than the mere drudge who had not a single

idea beyond the desk or the oonnter. ' With these cheer-
vations, which were much cheered, his lordship introduced

the lecturer of the evening, the Very Bev. Dean of Canter-
bury, to the meeting.
Dean ALFORD, differing from his lordship, opened his
lecture with the expression of a fear that the young men
of the present day had somewhat degenerated, and were
not so religiously or intellectually sound as their imme-
diate predecessors. He suspected that their main wadi
was pleasure, and their principal mental food sensational
literately. Fran thence he proceeded in a long and elo-
quent lecture to distinguish between the true and fable
guides for young men, and to indicate how the
one might be recogoised and the other best *voided.
His only 'safe guide was conscience or inward
persuasion, when that conscience was etrengtbeoed
and enlightened by a reverent study of the holy
scriptures. The present, however, was the satur-
nalia ot false guides, for a man had only to set down in
print ten lines of greater folly than usual, and all Eng-
land was agape. A passage followed on the absolute
neceaaity there was for the belief in ayersonal God, and

the lecturer turned from the true to the false guides. In
religion the false guides were those who would overlay
pure religion with • vain and pompous ritual. Such
teachers would substitute the misty and uncertain iride-
scence of the foam for the unchanged hue of the ocean.
Next to such false guides, and greater perhaps as perpetra-
tors of mischief, were the anonymous journalists of the
present day. Under the shield of the anonymous men
were at present misleading public opinion, who, if their
names were attached to their articles, would be received
with shouts of derision. We had, in fact, fallen
into the very worst phase of democracy, the
great danger of which was that it would
place power in unfit and irresponsible hands ; but
this was exactly what we suffered from anonymous jour-
nalism. No man was safe ; the newspapers could write
any man up or down in a week, the beat character might
be taken away in • round of paragraphs, and the only pro-
tection the public, had against such assailants was their mu-
tual hostility towards each other. (This observation elicited
a general shout of laughter.) If they could only all agree on
the point to be attacked, they would ruin anyone. News-
papers were in short totally unworthy to be followed as
guide. ; bad in politics, but worse, far worse, in religion ;
foe, when arguing the latter, they laid it down as their
first postulate that all who disagreed with them were not
mistaken opponents, but absolutely bad men. Another
guide of the present day was fiction, which possibly might
have run off the impurities of the last century. The
water might therefore be comparatively clear,but then there
was such a thing to be dreaded as an ioundation. That was
one danger, an inundation of sensational literature which
absolutely ignored the code of morality that was bid down
in Scripture. It would not be perhaps fair to expect religious
teaching in secular literature, but the purveyors of fiction
ought at least to take care that they taught nothing that
Well inconsistent with religion. Poetry was also a guide,
and in the hands of the greatest of living poets a safe one,
but there were others who forgot the responsibilities of
their mission, and laid bare to their readers things which
Christians ought not to know. The last of the guides to
which he should allude was a science which was a fatal
guide when it started with the denial of • God, but • true
and a safe one when it devoted itself reverently to the
investigation of God's wonders. Every new fact in ad-
ence was God's fact, and a contribution to his glory.
Lean Alford having resumed his seat amid loud cheers,
• vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor and the lecturer jointly
was carried by acclamation.

TEE QUEBEC FIRE.-11r. J. M. Grant, the hon.
secretary to the Quebec Fire Relief Fund, received yester-
day, through Messrs. Coutta and Co., the munificent sum
of 1,0001. from " Anonymous," in aid of the sufferers by
this terrible calamity.
THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE.—WO were in error
in intimating that Mr. Charles Darwin hail been elected a
member of the executive of the Jamaica Committee. Mr.
Darwin has joined the general committee of the sac.
eietion, and has sent a subecription of if. tc the prose-
cution fund.
LORD RANELAOIi AND THE TRADES UNIONS'
DEIIoNaTUATIoN.—The following is Lord liattelagh's letter
to the trades' deputation, relative to the demonstration on
Monday :—" Nov. 27, have duly considered
the request made to me thiougb lon on behalf
of the Trades' Reform demonstration delegates, to
allow their proposed meeting on the ,ird proximo to be
held in the pounds of Beaufort-houve. The applica-
tion is made to me ma the supposition that you have no
other or so convenient a place for holding that meeting.
tinder theme circumstances, and sympathising in the perfect
prerogative of Englishmen to meet (if with a peaceable in-
tention) for discussing their grievances, real or imagined,
and expressing their opinions thereon, I have decided '
to grant the permission asked. fly thus acting, I can-
not, of course, be held as acquiescing in the objects or
principles of your association ; but x 101,1171, I have all my
life been identified with that political patty which, by a
marvellous perversion of foots, has been represented as
inimical to the interests of the workieg s, I think I •
may claim for myself personally the posscnion and con."
etantly reiterated declaration of sentiments which would
extend to all tanks and grades the utmost, rights and pri-
vileges consistent with a free and limited inonalchy ; and
I conceive that while I act in harmony with such opinions
in complying with your request, I at the same time give
the must practical and truthful illustration of real con-
stitutional policy. I take it for grant, il that you will
indemnify me against any possible damage by riot or other-
wise. I an, conservative' of my park fencing, end prefer
it to the unsightly which now surround the
place of a former meeting as anything but pleasing me-
morials.—Yours ohendently, iIiNELAGH."
8151101. COLENSU ON A VISITATION. Bishop
Colenso has been making a visitation of the coast, not for
summoning the clergy and delivering a chat ge, lint preach-
ing in the churches to large congregations, and making •
himself acquainted with the people. While be was at Dur-
ban the map), 's dinner was given, and cash ttztided by the
administrator (the governor being eletent), the colonial se-
cretary, and representatives of all the chief interests of the
colony. The bishop, in acknowledging the toast of "The
Clergy," said he had little claim to regard himself as per-
sonally included in this recognition, act far at least as
Durban was concerned, having been unavoidably so
long absent and prevented as yet from having,
since his return to the colony. that close per-
'Dual intercourse with the inhabitants. of this
, town which he very much desired thankse. But be con-
sideied the toast as rendering the of the company
where they were really due—to the colonial chi:plain, sit-
ting by his side, whose many years of kindly labour had
justly won for him the affection of his fenow-townsinen,
and to the other ministers of all denominatii.me living in
Durban,w who have been busied in sowing tie re the seed
of life, instructing the ignorant, comforting the sick and
sorrowing,
reclaiming the wanderer, and—not the least of
the duties of a Christian minister in these times—
apt inkling the oil of charity upon the troubled waters.
This speech, it is stated, was very warmly ap-
plauded. The bishop preached in the three churches
of Durban without any interruption whatever. But
at Verulate, a small town about 20 miles from Durban,
there was "a scene." The rector bad the altar furniture
removed, leaving within the rails (says the Nat& .4fersorry)
nothing but a deal table, a soap-box, and one chair in
which be bad seated himself, having first had the entrance
within the rails fastened up by a bar of wood. The bishop
removed the bar, went in, and sat down on the box, but a
chair was afterwards brought. The incumbent beginning
to read an address or protest, Dr. Blaine, resident magis-
trate and churchwarden, said "Sir, we are bete for di-
vine service, and this is out of order altogether." The
rev, gentleman, however, concluded his address, but made
no further opposition remaining in his seat, and taking
no part in the service!. At other plates the bishop ap-
pears to has. boss well received.—Tients.