The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-26 00:00:00

THE HOLY LAND.

JBRUB.ALBII, Dtc. 8.

It would not require much research into boob of
travels In Palestine to perceive how ueiversally they desig-
nate this city as melancholy, forlorn, @that, or by other
epithets denoting that It I. boated " fez from humanity's
roach." It would not require much resserohnow to discover
that within a couple of pars, but especially within a couple
of months, it ha boom, in proportion; to it.. end popu-
lation, one of the most stirring cities that ma be met with,
The trade within is largely augmented sines the index,
ever increasing, of Rusin pilgrims; but thr lih end bustle
ere to be redly foetid acute the wells, to the
earth and west, where the somby has soddenly
changed its moot, sad preesats se ent-lifil mem of in-
, abaetry, whim Mahe& of ram—peasmb of the lead, with •
M Mateo, lealms, sad Africem—are employed in raising
mile preparatory to the numerous edifices designed by Roe-
sler, Amoebae, sad saner mirthente ; and this, again.
tells upon truants &Mom, when the thee is being burned.
sad the bills branded of waders to supply the kilns.
All day lee( the explosions of blasting rocks resound, as
though the wells of • citadel were being besieged, the plugs
dying up into the air, each with a stream ti the llks • rocket.
Besides those inclocaree, the worth la roper consist of a
wide road being made to the snokat Convent of the Cross,
now • Mack clerical seminary, nearly two miles distaste frem
the city, end sundry mall forte being meted by the Paola
along the Jae road, to be occupied by the:Bashi Boank,
for ensuring general misty. The drat one is aloes to the
moth-west comer of the wall; the eat, of a larger
is built' just on the spot long endeared to pion tabula
by being that from which the view of the Holy City is Bret
obtained In that direction--• sad combination of devotional
fellinge with the riot of uncontrolled soldiery; but more
than this (and in meaticehtg it let it not be thought that we
are pleased with the admixture of whet is ludicrous),
the Pada ham sand the tower to be painted
over with black yeiat—• Woes banding painted!—
in ardor to reader it man Lied In the eyes of
the plarenhy ; sad this bennse the Bin Bashi of the
makes bas mewed him that In Francs, Germany, sad
England, all the greet fortithations are thm coloured for
the purpose of 'wise the enemy. Certainly It is a berth'
object, even going • stop beyond the vile taste of white-
weehing the fins miens gateways of Jaresaleco, built by
Stillman the Ilmmilleset, on the receatly expected visit is
the Bahian la August bet. The idea of minting a fort for
the purpose of inspiring terror smack, greatly of Chinese
teeth

The Paella tides out every =Wawa to visit this funereal
outpost, sad to *coy the animation of the works sround us,
eepecially watching with Iysa•eyet leabuoy against any ap-
proach so program being math, or beildisgs that might be
undertakes by European. The eitnatagm he has achieved
of late over the Araks seer Gem by diplomacy, without
bloodshed, have been teeptilled th .Constrestinople-French
newspapers into " a smile of &dome 'later*" end he hos
mulcted them of abate 2,0001. In compensation for their per
plundering of the poseante.
When he =nonacid to the sheikhs of villages what be had
den, and asked advice as to bow he should employ the mo-
w, they all, with two exceptkee, wished to have the money
divided among theca, rather thin have it spat in useful
worts for future protection. To which his excellency re-
joined, " For shame! do you not know th►t I am your
father, sad know beat what is good for you F'
Bo be eat to work in constructing these petty
towers along the Jabs rood to Sonaelem, far
enough from the Arabs. We shall me whether
the Buhl Bank will not prove as onshunt plunderers
as the Bedouins, end whether they will net ran away from
their detached forte se soon as say of the latter appear,
or before. The Pasha hie don wooden in seizing and
banishing to Cyprus or Constantinople the old belligerent
sheikhs of Hebron and the Baled tArkuls, sad in completely
disarming the peasantry. He his not, however, punished
the Tesneri, who, near Bethlehem last year, slew one of the
Wilkes of Wahl bunk in opts fight, with numbers=
each side, almost within sight of the Paolues trite, Heftiest
has he done anything yet to detect sad punish the =ardente
of Miss Crony ; nor deco he in say way mole= the hada&
Ante, who have manly been =Wag as they please about
Jericho, and who have ell their stores of grain there.
la the We disputa of monks at Bethlehem about replacing
a slab of pavement which had become broken in !Tolstoi the
smut swam the matter was settled impartially by
Web( Torkiek Whisk to plan the stone in preemie of
Latias mad Greeks.

In England you are astarelly enough disgusted with the
petty but renoorous hostilities of the several convents respeot-
hag each subjects In the sacred places, but you will scarcely
he prepared for the following anecdote. Darlog this lest
Bethlehem Itinusloa, a person high In aloe In Jerusalem
proposed In jest that, for the sake of ensuring fair dealing,
they Amid send for Proudhos, the Socialist-Atheist,
and Strauss, the author of Ltbea Jean," to
replace the slab, inasmuch sa both of these were
doubtless baptized In infancy, and would now have no prod'.
leaks for sue ride or she other. This I relate merely to
show how educated people look on such proceedings, and
how callous to flow hellos' one may become when celled at
to mingle in them.

Within the city rents are rising to a frightful attest, via.,
hu doable, treble, or eves more of their rata a you ego. The
poor &reentering exceedingly from this mese. and banernient
persons are desirous of seeing housed built for them outside
the city—that le, if the Turk' will allow it; for, alas, the
elteehonses &dead by Sir M. Montanan are etlll arrested
by their onthority.
Our weather has hitherto remained very plasma, bat the
cold has now set In, though as yet with bright sumhino--all
claws of people are crying oat for rain.
The peasantry, owing to their improvident habits, an now
without teed-corn for the lemon, having mercely sown any
barley last time, and the wheat harvest having been unfor-
tunate. On the former of them anoint, they ere compelled
to tell their draught animals for plonghtsg at very low
Woes, and on the latter aocount they are everywhere be-
seeching the loan of money, offering latent& of six mseenres
of wheat at the next threshing-hones fir the present nee era
sovereign—amounting in vane to a herbed per asst. value
for Ilk months.

Preen the two remenee together it im to be hewed thin, me
little will be mown. the sot harvest will be very gaoler&
I .bald also mastics that ma are wentiog too, for mug
are tempted by the high wages for buildiag employment shoe
Jonweleut to leave their th•lde, mei this will bring evil resale
to the public in general.—l am, i.e., B.

ANIOLICAN AND CANADIAN MAIL DZAPATCHIS
mom Ltreerook—On debeekeyttrt Me Canard meemer
Amble Nailed Dem Lfteepsel kr Demon with tie United
States end Nardi Amide= usilsomin peseempere,
ekes wee Omen* Cemeidere, DM ?reddens =
Tim Quebec end Medved steamer Hagar= will be de.
epee:bed bar the Moran for Parties& ea Weedey ant,
midi tie Ormdlen end United &des sells. The hoz et the
Liverpool rem.4.r will be open ott Ind dra7 I r lbs /10114
of ledges, newspapers, &c., tW 11.45 eam, eat ea Quer-
tom masa 9.30 p .m.

IN TEE CHANNEL.-711TY LIVES
LOST.

On fiatarday a telegram was published in
Landon to the reset that a numbs et cam hail bow picked
tip neer Calais, bearing the name "Sherds Castle," Far-
ther particulars have sine oome to hand ending to confirm
the fear that the Blarvia Castle, WHartty, which Wt the
Downs on the 17th inseam foe Amersha, hes bombe*.

The RUM. Castle wee one of the het of Norms. D.
Amber, of Limehouse. the wee a very des ship, 110
teen NOW, almost new, having been boat two
pesos we, nod was classed at Lloyd's /1 1 twelve
poss. Me had very superior peseenger worsansodelion,
end was shattered by Mame. adman and Twee-
ds* end laid on for Adeleide. Ilhe holed In
the Lodes Dote, end Most help psoosogers
W Idea births in boo to peeved t the amines. Toasty-
ter pied her when lobe laths river, end tie rundadst is-
lands& le go es bender Plynealli, when the dip bad to
pat ia. abe torrid a new of di ladading the
Mena, sod bad a valuable verso d nimasnillse, ebb KIM
lee steepen deck. The Chapati last leek doge el bat
when she need Ikea Orsvemed es the Illek adast, end
proserded though the Downs with her, end lea hr el
Dover en Soft evening, when all spend we with her,
sad she bed s air vied for her course lam Chemed. It
was gated that the would reach Plymouth Meet Tuesday
sr Wider/km but nothing mom was beard dlr. Towards
the den ad Temelay the wind shifted to lie N.R.W., and
biota a Soria pie, with heavy now, tits peels who won
eat denraing it as an awful night.
It is supposed that the ship mast bays got one distance
down Chased when die 'moonfaced the ple, and whether
Captain Wlleady, who be.,. a high oberacter for skilful
mossastip, attempted to in or bold en by beadier shoat,
and was delves back by the force el the tempest, is a matter
of ondeptanie. It is quite evident that the .hip got beet to
the seetword of Dttageneee, in the more sinew portion of
the Chansel, where both the Hoglisk end loath wads ere
now promising, lighted, and when seen give a sip her
imraMiste position. It is, therefore, emeediegly probable
that the dims mew which fell duns( its night Wittily
shut oat them beams from view' sad that Captain
11.11ardy wee ;tot aware of hie situation.ation. It is thought
that she was het either on the Vanes or the Ridge, two
shoals which stead to the metre of the. Chanel, minion
in a line with Polkeetom and Cape Otis... The Terse
extends some four or Ave miles in length, extremely
narrow, and has not more than a fathom and • half upon it
at low water, while ail mead It are seuedlege at 12 and 1.7
fathom.. The Ridge is adorer to the Preset east, a long
and narrow shoal, utd, like to, Varna, hr deep water road
it. The impression is that the ship sheet spa ousel thee.
owe* and, after heavy beating, want to pietas, sad, sliding
off, sunk in deep water. It may be stated that she was fitted
with aleph boats to save all hands, but fa such ame that
prevailed tint night It is very doubtful whether they meld
have outlived it.

The fallowiag are the names of the gamma who wait
ea bawl la the river, and who, it le flared, have polished
dace—fir. and Mn. Dulel sad family, aomietlag of
four ems sad osa daughter, Healy, Arthur, Edmund,
William, sad Elisabeth, late of Uppor Beigrave-plane, Bel-
partostpare ; Martha Stade, egad Id. _ .

- Soma Phis Pampa .-Jmneas Young, Catharine
Young, his aim, and thak children, James, John, 'embalm,
and Margaret; Joseph Sanders, Jams White, Mr. and
Mrs. Dashers, Mr. and Mrs. Cameros, Duncan RCA and
Bdward Chard.
The Crew :—Captan Gawp brandy, commander, of
London; Mr. Thomas Host hi' Asthma, 38 years, aka
Dillow; Mr. Alexander Ti...,, 23, mooed allow; Mr.
Edwin Wanner, 23, third Aka ; Charles Damorell, 31,
boatman; John Sutherland, 31, steward ; Geroge
Wildtage, 21, manta ; David Pinlayson, 20, mailmakar;
' Edwin Woolley, 31, cook; Tames Rat, 36, batches;
Robert Postall, 25, able seaman; Spoleadsr, 26,
ditto; Hairy Cook, 20, ditto; Thomas Elvin, 23, ditto;
Jaws Jonas, 19, ditto; William 2€ Utah, 24, ditto; John
Leese, 22, ditto; John Swanson, 23, ditto; Lads
Leg:mesa, 28, ditto; John Carle, 24, ditto; William
Anderson, 22, ordinary swami; —Ghisby,l7,ditto; Herbert
Rawlins's, 18, caddy meant ; William Pittman, midship-
man (apprentice), ditto; JIM. Shaw Davis, ditto; Albert
Langdoes Damned, ditto; and Walter Parson, ditto.
There were nine other:llMM on board whose names have
not a yet been amowtained.
The camas picked up and laded et Oak& by throe Islam
nada ars marka am follows :-0. B. A. (ice a di mod),
a, 1(Y a irisegis), A. beneath, 10, 3 B. A. (in a Almond),

D. J. T. (le • AYai4), 1/3, if. D. Qs • ilinaced), 36i,

T. L. (MI diamond), 40, 36, 139. 99,163, 133, 69. itlava;
cams marked B. 69 ; 0.16. F.l, 4,8, 17, 20, F. (in a circle),

880, B. 8. A. .

28 32, 8. A. B. and G. AS (In a Omni); G.B. 8. 12, 12;
A. B. (in a Mainced), 185, 83 (In a diamond), with C. IL
_ _

bianni, 461; R."snd B. 8:68; G. W. A. (in a din,
aced), B. B. outside. 628; B. 8. A. (la a dirnosd),
147 ; G. W. an a diamond), C Wade 1080; 1021.

♦ box marked "Mined Chard," • dirk sad two boxes
'Wheat marks; bared• marked 0.8. 1.56, 1103tC 16.22. 12.
23. 24., DIP Oa a dimmed) 70, DIP (tae dimmed) 64, P.C.
206, AML (la • square) 266. 968. 368. 172. 187. 576.2/4.126.
278. 166.288.223. 139. 264., P (in • dimmed) 10. 11. 21. 29.;
eight omits without marks; feu bands m•rbd "Booth,
London," IiC&C 69. 214, BCRW 166, WPEP. Three
mike without marks-12.62; 20 tin ens, • gun =dais,
six battles of wine, one bottle of gi•, sad seven iron hoops.
The muter of one of the boat* states that these Shop were
picked up about 20 miles to the N.S. of Dunkirk, sad that
he left a considereble quantity of goods doses( shoat, with
the spare and planking of • large vessel. The ores beer, in
addition to the other marks, the words " Blervls Castle."

By • lelegenin reesivad en Saturday from Calais, we learn
that Els other SALM boats had arrived at that vet, all laden
with goods from the seine ship.
Seven cease have also bean picked op 12 =DM ?CMS. of
Dotal* and landed at that port, marked O cad C (in • dia-
mond), with C A 38 underneath ; G. B. A. (Ina &Wooed), and
A 62 underneath; W H P (In • diaraced), with C3l 269
underneath ; 1 (in • triangle), with A 36 underneath; W H P
(In • diamond), with A C underneath; 1 (ins triangle), with
A 34 underneath ; 8 J (In • diamond), with 1166 undernestlai
lye of which also bear the name Blervls Castle, besides on.
without mark, and one contalniog a pianoforte ; the third
one (No. 269) ls broken,and appears to contain ready-made
clothes. On the spot here was no appears:toe of • vessel.
swept a mast. _ _ _

Four boating' et goods of various disariptlens have been
picked up nest the Galloper, and landed at Esmagets,
reportad to be from the Blervis Castle. Aamiget them is
am of sauff marked D.D.I.F. (In s dismond)orldt the weeds
Blervis Castle."

Most of the above came, It is slated, were Mowed In the
bottom pert of the hold.