The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, DEc. 13.

71be. shirting., 4r. 14a. ; Nibs. ditto, 6r.;
40's mule twist, Ulla. Market quiet. Cotton
steady : Dhollerah, 138 r. Shipments of the week,
10,880 bales. Exchange on London, 1.. 11id.
Freights to Liverpool, 60s. The latest London
date is the 6th inst.

CALCUTTA, Dcc. 12.

nbe. ahirtinga, br. 4s. ; 811ba. ditto, 6r. 12a. ;
40'a mule twist, bk. Exchange on London,
s. 110. Four per Cent. Government Securi-
Ities, 91i ; Five per Cent. ditto, 108 ; Five-and-a-
Half per Cent. ditto, 1121. Freights to England
nominal. Market quiet ; prices drooping.

' Air Thrwofirruseis BISHOP.—The John Bull Sr. Ness's', DEC. 23.—The French steamer
writes :—" The Bishop of Dunedin still remains in Eull- Nouveau Monde, from Panama December Ist, arrived here
land, and some at lean in his diocese are anxious that he -. . . _
today, we brings 1i.5 passengers, and 3,087 bales of met.-
, should do so. We understand that the real difficulty is
that the diocese is not definitely formed, and that no chandise. In Columbia public tranquillity continued,
emolument is secured, The bishop made a great mistake and General Mosquera had been sentenced to four years'
in not going out months ago. His hearty genial manner exile,
and his muscular Christianity marked him out for a col*.
MAILS FOR THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.—The
nial bishop, and he would have soon won the people's
government of Bombay having taken steps to establish
I hearts, and disabused their fears of his ultra-ritualism,
persons ,mail
pat-office in connexion with the Abyssinian J.
which it is not unnatural that they should have formed
t containing correspondence addressed to
when they read of him officiating in nearly every ultra-
persons serving in the field force will be forwarded from
high church in England. We arc convinced that this is.
this office by each mail despatched to Suez, for convey-
thetly owing to his love of music and too easy yielding to
ance thence by the mail packets proceeding to Bombay or
wishes of his friends ; but his lordship must see on
Calcutta which will be intercepted on tbeir passage to
reflection that it does not tend to maintain the dignity of
Aden. Correspondence intended to be sent in theme mails
the episcopate, and gives but too great colour to the OMNl-
must be specially superscribed "Field Force, Abyssinia," 1
less attacks on colonial bishops being at home. Let him
and it will be liable to the same rates of postage and the
put himself in Bishop Selwyn's hands, go out to New Zen same regulations as cormswndence addressed to Aden.
land, and there can be no doubt opposition will melt away,
These rates are :—Vii Southampton: For a letter not ex.
1 and his practical character commend itself to the colonists.
But further delay will be fatal to his influence." • half an ounce, 6d. ,above half an ounce, and not
;ref choir
ounonlotinows: la.for;btoorimelcikentiewnort per not exceed-
The following gentlemen have been commissioned exceeding four 1
to act as magistrates for the borough of Liverpool :—llfessre. ounces, 4d. VIA Marseilles: For • letter not exceeding
J. Bland, J. Cooper, K. Brocklebank, jun., Char—les Myers, half an ounce, 10d. • above half an ounce and not exceed- I
Charles Saunders. and Alfred Turner. ing one ounce, Is. Bd. ; for each newspaper not 'tending 1
At the Staffordshire assizes, during the hearing four ounces, sd. ; for book packets, not exceeding four 1
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of a ease of an abominable character, the chief witnesses ounces, aid. All correspondence addressed to persons on
were two young girls, about 14 years old, and were em- board ships of war or transport, engaged in this expedi- 1
ployed in canal boats. In crass-examimation they both tion will be sent to Aden, and will also be limb's to the ,I
said they could neither read nor write ; they had never foregoingrates. Upon correspondence on which the !are. I
been at school, church, or chapel; and they bad never going rates have been pre-paid, no further charge will be
heard of the Bible. Mr. Justice Keating, in his summing levied on delivery.
up to the jury, thus remarked upon the subject:—" I sun- HEALTH RESTORED BY Du BARRY'S FOOD TO THE 11
not help noticing the most deplorable state of matters STOMACH, nerves, lungs, and beer of old and young, cur, with- 1
out medicine or expense, dyspepsia (Ind Hon), oonstitiation. shown by the evidence of these girls. We call ourselves a
mud,a people, angoras ourselves upon being a civilised diarrheas, acidity, headache, neuralgia, byatarls, pelpttatica,
nation. These two girls have said that they could neither sleeplessness, debility, wasting, cough, asthma, freers, consump-
read we write ; that thee bad never in their lives beer at tioux low sW.ta.. <PAC annual cures which bad resisted all
school, church, or chapel ; that they had never heard ef Miltre ktry.mglarr.liee Inemitnineremik the Mtn It saves
Ilb., b. ad. ; 141 b.
the Bible ; end, es the learned ueumeul had suggested, in tr. ; WO.. ar., or Id. per meal.—De Barry and Co., 77, Regeot:
au probability they had sever heard of a Divine Bang. quadrant, /nodes i aloe Fortnum and Mason, Piccadilly, and at
We send out mimionaries to the heathen, but what • ft, Oracecburch-street ;4, sfts• ;SS and 114, Onlortietrest. I
all this when we see such • state of things at home!" sad an grown and clanunin—CrUasmsat..]