The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-15 00:00:00

BRIGADIER SMITH'S COLIIIIN.

The following I. from an offioer with Brigadier
Smith's column, which has again taken the field :
Camp before Poorie, 18 miles from Seepree, Ang.9, 1858.
Hers we are oat again, after our old friend of the Patton
fort, Man Bing, or Bower Sing se he is now celled. He
is In the fort of Poorie, with three or four thousand
men, three large guns, and about twenty-four small ones,
We left &epees on the fah, but on account of the heavy
nature of the road, could only reach Jean that day. The
wont part of the road was that close to beeper*, where the
guns sank to their axles in the mud, and the haw to their
haunches. Even the legs of the infantry ocarionally dis-
appeared In the most mysterious manner, and At would am
astonish an in the lout to find, oa our return, a lies rips crop
of :shoes and ammunition boots, fora good mony were Lett
planted in chisel& alluvial soil. The road fromiseri was better,
and on the afternoon of the 6th we arrived before Poorio
fort, end bivouacked before the walls. This afternoon
and the ant morning were spent in reconnoitring,
and in receiving and replying to letters from
Kan Sing, who rays he to our great friend,
and that he dose not want to fight as, but won't give himself
up, though his life has been promised, as ha Is afraid we
will hang him. U we had large goes we would soon
maks a bench sad take the pion, but as it fa, we ennui get
in, and as en waiting patiently for the 18-pounders
from Gwallor, when we will no doubt soot bring him to
tame. Our force consists of four hone Walton guns
(Colonel Blake's). 460 her Majesty's 95 850 of the 10th
J N., 1 squadron Bth Hussars, and 1 Ist Lancers.
Os the afternoon of the 7th, Brigadier th went close to
the gate of the fort, to have • coahrenos with Man
Mag. He was attended by his brigade-major only, but Man
Nag, though he oame out with an armed rabble at hie
hells, took fright; at two lancers who galloped towards the
beigadier,and retired, his followers chinning round our good
blgadier, and making inch an awful row, that we thought
it was all up with our gallant chief. lam happy to say they
did not touch him, for we cannot afford to loss eseh a fine
brave fellow, and one so much loved in the fora. As Man
Sing would not come to term, we retired oar camp out
of shot, and are o biding our tine." When the big
arrive, we shall havo some glorious fun of
rtri and pay them well. There are two regiments
of Owalior mutineers in the foot. Man Stag le a
the-looking young men, and Bus our Bob Roy
has long arms, nothing below the knee. We an all is
good health, though till to-day we ham been roughing It
without tents, and, need I say, very jolly at the prospect of
(mother scrimmage.

BOMBAY COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Standard of August 19.)

Our money market continues easy, bat, before long, a
demand le expected, owing to the near approach of the
opening of the season. The prospect. of the harvest all over
the country' are reported we favourable. Rain has fallen
abundantly in the interior, but at the Presidency the fall has
been somewhat below the average. However, as six week'
of the rainy mason yet remain, there is no cause for appre-
hension.

brpowrs.

Corrox Pirscs Goose continua to ahem considerable and
Improved activity, and pods, almost all " to arrive," ham
bass sold, and sours that are In Manchester reedy for ship.
ant bars bean sagely bought up ; also' have further
advanced. Of GRIT SHIRTING, 40-Inch, all daecripdosa
are in vary good demand, and advanced in prim
2 to 8 anima ; 8 to 9lbs. extremely norm and eagerly sought
hr. 4.5 inch.—AU kinds in good demand; 7 to 9
most wanted ; 2 to 8 annex mdmoted. 60 inch.—
Is intim demand, but prices remain as last quota&
MriLut are to good demand. All theeptions of GRIT
KADAPOLLAII an more enquired for and is batter demand
than kat reported, and prices have admen' 1 to 2 masa
*tome is wry good demand sad Kane at 1 to 2 rams
advanced., Drills aro dull, and have daolinsd 2to 4 mums
All dasoriptiona of T Moth ia vary pod damand,
sad samara I to 4 cease. Long sloth la ma,
crisicessamad, 2 to 8 mamas amass& Ali daserlptkna of
fa mohnits inquiry, asap sever widths, which
ors in good requat. Bloachad Minim (Madapollam) is i■
good demand for low to middling; others dull. Lowjamonets
ars in demand; others dull.
SATTX

2 gars re race, thondt la ties
recrem. TwiLia.--New at aortakaad WllOllllll. TOZALT
RID —Flak Ia fair request. Tw sad Mulls ; oleo
Dimity. FANCY Buten= dewripticas
in very good damead ; as also Lappets,bri cheeks and striped,
lo w Book Mulls, low Mamba Cam, Beat
Grey sad Bleached Dhoti's. sad Coloured Mul:lr *i
DTI]) NADA POLLild sad MULLS higher, but Book Muslim
sad Cotton Velvet are dull of sale. YAW( : both Yule sad
Water hi ray good demand and advanced on No.. 20, 30,
40, and 60, of the former, and 20 and 30 of the latter.
Bales in all 825 oales. Turkey Red, inferior to moderate
dsensad, beet dell Orange and Orilla, scarce, and to very
good demand arid edvanord.
Mita cs.—lrom—Bdilsh bar dull and declined, ohne
mail red, round sad square, hoop and abort, casintsia their
list vals". Basilisk bar, and steel in tubs and faggots, dull.
Lied :—Pig and sheet in deemad. Tin platy in demand.
Speller In fair deesead, sad admaoed. Copper : an descrip-
tions dull and deellmod, while Ms is In good demand sad
advanced.

Qu in demand. WHITS Mg RED LEAD: Best
of white room and In &mend, sad rod maintaining lad
ram Cocinnimi dull. earrion: But in demand.

Exroms.

COTTON WoOL : Owlag to mil sad scanty stook,
sad the good somata from England and Chins,
hays advanced on Brooch, Dhollsra and Menorah. Cos
doing far the letter market than the farmer. Oily •
lbw boats here strived from the northward with Nowak
esttes, but the arrivals ill sow gradually inoreime.
Razzes WOOL: Bed none, and inferior maintaining last
value: 600 *oodles sold since Nail arrived. Corths
Mahn sad llshibar sons Penis: BISSooI end Malibu
owes end meintsining limit value. eatrrstaz : Dull.
Yawner : None. Mode Rs. 4} to 44; Mascot Rs. B}.
mar : In demand for local entstunption and scares. Corz•
wares sad in racy good demand, and advanced RA. 72 to 76.
On.--Cocoa-not Kane and In racy active demand sad ad-
verted Rs. 51. Test—Dull. at Rs. 210 aims. Castor
scarce and maintaining last value. 3,000 mounds Gingellis
n4l, 21. 10s. lid. ditto. livnamou.rx.—Doll. C 0114..—
Tara No. 1, Ra. 46 to 48. No. 2, Rs. 8610 40. Fibre 11.4. 48
Reran . Lin, shwa the arrival of the mail, In very good
demand, sad advanced to Ra. 8 11 anima; and "to arrive"
in January Ra. 6} ;Is October Ba. 6}.—Rape: No.. "To
swiss" Is BereabiN Pa. 6 14 amass; Is October Rs.
; in Deorobsr Rs. 6}. Poppy : Nose.—Teel Dull
Rs. 2.5 to 26. Niger.-Nora
and in amend, and
advanced Rs. 20. Bhoysing.—dooms and In demand, and
adveneed to Rs. 10} b 21._ oritin.—The market has born
wry
MoodieAm *
sad-8.. 1,1110 ke Won sed prim Aso. firths. mimosa to Rs. 1,315 for

EgonanOn.
On London, advanced in the early part of the fortnight to
2a. old. for Bank Bills, end 2a. Id. fee Doeaneeette, 6 soothe'
sight, at whit% limes very large tranmedaes have had
effect. In the last few days the rate has :needed 2s. op. to
2.. Oki for Bank and Document BOY.

TONNAOI.

There is little citangeiO iintics to rates of Freight to
Great Britain, and our quotations remain the same as our
hat

FOILION MAILS.—The following notioes we»
issued trout the General Poet-office yesterday, via. : The
not mail from India, via Bombay and Marseiltre, to dna in
London on the 20th Inv. Malls for the Mediterranean,
India, and the Mauritius. via Marseilles, will bides-
:a= on the sends, of the 17th Meant ; for the Medi-
Wrens's, Egypt, India. Mauritius, Ceylon, and Chins, via
ilentluunptott, on the 20th Met. ; for Australia, via Mar-
seille; on the 16elt bd. ; and for the Canedaa on the 21st
net.Bhlfirails will he made zip far New York and Halifax, to
be sent the Indies Empire, which Is to leave Galway on
the 28th at., and for Vancouver's Island, to be sent by the
screw steamer Forward, which is to leave Liverpool on the
30th inst.

EXPRESS FROM PARIs.

(710 X OCR OWW

PARIS. TUZIMAT STTMIDO•

I find it stated in the Union, but I know not on
what authority, that the French Government in-
tends to leave in the waters of China all the gun-
boats now collected there, together with a corps of
mariner, until the treaty concluded at Tien Tsing
shall be completely executed.

The local tribunal of Correctional Police has sen-
tenced the legitimist partisan M. de Coarser to two
months' imprisonment, De Mailly to one month for
the address they sent to the Count de Ch-imbord,
Two of the working men who signed the address
are acquitted, and two of them sentenced to one
month's imprisonment.
The Bourse has been none the worse to-day for
the slight reaction which I noticed yesterday, and
the effect of which has rather been to give
increased fit ones. to all the business. The
Rents which had closed at 72fr. 76c. on the pre-
vious afternoon, now roes at once to 73fr. 100., and
then got as high a. 73fr. 26c. Railways were not
less brisk, aad some extensive purchases were made
in Northern.. The general demand for Spanish
Government securities still continues. Austrian
railways were firm and on the rise. The Southern
of France shares were very much in demand, at
600 fr. to 602 fr. 60c., and lutly quoted at 605 fr. ;
Mobilier closed at 952 fr. 50c. to 9550.: Mediter-
ranean, at 856 fr. to 867 fr. 60c.

The Dibata devotee its principal columns to an
article upon the Litersty and Artistic Congress, ap-
pointed to meet at. Brussels on the 27th inst. The
bookeelling and papermsking interests, the dramatic
authors and composers, and those of literature in ge-
neral, see to be represented by a m'sed commission.
The general object of this commission apper-s to be
to obtain for all countries the protection to literary
works, without regard to the country of their origin,
which now exists in France alone. The attention
of your readers has already been called to an article
in the 'Mats, in which that able weitle, M. Prevost-
Paradol, in a vein of the happiest irony, flays M.
Levis Venillot alive, on the subject of the famous
Lourdes miracle. With redoubled vitality, the
hydra of religious abeolat,sm retr•.as to the charge
in his usual style of virulence and personality, and,
as usual, finding himself unable to refute his oppo-
nent's segment, distorts and misrepresents it. M.
Panda! having claimed for Protestants a right to
miracles of one sort, those namely— if turning
catholic, and sceptics into Protestants, by mears of
the Bible, M. Veuillot thus deals with him :
M. Psradol insineatm that he is favourable to liberty in
the matter of miracles—that he is a Whig to let the Catholics
perform as many as they like, end deprecates opposition
thereto; but that he demands that proteatents alwil be
allowed to perform miracles also, which &racks shall coo-
slat in tr-aing catholic. Into prutestante and soeptlos by the
r"atribution of Bibles.

This most palpable tmbtitution of one phreve for
another is calculated to defeat its own purpose even
Kith the be"evers in M. Louis Veuillot—if such
there really be. Now let as hear this great teacher's
opinion of the Protestant Bible:
Aecord,ng to et (the Univers) the isle of the Bible by
colporGurs (prdlars—itisentnt venders) ought not to be
snowed in tiny cethollo—nay, in any Christian cotuitry. We do
not here 'rolicats the holy book itself, tot that Welled traw-
led= of It the distilbution of which constitutes the Mat-
comer &judge of the word of Ood. The so-calkd Bible of
the protestanta is en engine of war against Christianity.

He then touches upon the eolporgage position as
one of statl policy, end favours the imperial govern-
ment with 101 advice u follows :

But as it le not with us (the Univers) that the /sun's! des
litdate e.^n settle the matter, we mint be permitted to decline
interfering with it, leaving that Pausal to mettle it with the
government. If we may be allowed to point out the course
which it would be desirable to follow, we would say it ought
to be frly end satidsolorily proved that the distributors of
the Bible aotesity do attribute the Bible, that they are
ploy, sod peaceful men, and that the state has been wrong
in suspecting that there is more of Orleaniain and medalists
than of spoetolical real in the extreme srdour displayed of
late by theme very advanced helth:ul of the religion of free
inquiry.
It will be seen that M. Venillot has
taken shelter under the far-spreading mantle
of administrative vigilance ; on that head,
however, I would observe that the falseness
of the charge against the colporteurs, of having
disseminated Orleaniat and socialist doctrines instead
of the Bible, is placed beyond all doubt. Bees sig-
num, in the follow ;ig circular recently addressed by
the Prefect of the Sarthe to the Sub-Prefects,
Mayors, Juges-de-paix, Commandants of Gondar-

merle, Comm:varies of Police, and other officials :
Gentlemen,—l have been askrd whether the inst.notions
in the thriller of 30th Jerry last, relative to the colportage of
the publicatiors of retie:mil dissenters are appliesble to all
eolportesrs iodiscriumtely. I baton to reply urbestetingly
In the negative.
Upon this point the terms of the ministerial circular
of We 22nd of May last leave no doubt. The superior ad-
mndstrations has no intention of preventing the dissemina-
tion by means of tolporgage of the doctrines of any sect what-
ever. Translations of the Bible, and a great number of
other protestant works ham been inserted in the oflirdel cata-
loger which regulate the mipervieks of eapertape.
After an attentive examination by a permanent commis-
Sioll, it has been decided that these publications, which are
eminently .noral, do not 'rangier the reasonable limits of
religions controversy. It le :ally admitted that they are not
of a nature to irritate minds, and arouse parlous which am
not of our epoch. The object of the administration le to
prevent foreign societies, possessed of cosabierabk meaner
from sending to oar country agents charged to units agita-
,
tion ; and for that purpose it is that tie prefects have been
des red to institute careful inquiries into the antecedents of
Individuals applying for permhwion to exercise the calling of
colportewrs.

Laox CHIVILLtr.

_ .
By way of commentary on the foregoing, I extract
from the Revue des Deux Mendes an eloquent
passage on the subject of the distribution of the
Bible :

We will not panes to dinettes the point as to whether imat-
munitim armeetemcd to read the Bible produce more intelli-
gent or mime moral era am three which do not read it.
It is to *mot sr omeideredsa that we would call the con-
strain, weed= both of stelesnma sad of sinoerely reli-
giose embalm. It is sou uniortemone. but an innontestible
feat, that deco the sixtemit sontury metiers which have fed
(es reeeriment) wpm the Dade haw, is spite of the varistire
of mote been fondsmentelly religiose ; while in nations where
the Bible Is set tea, whatever km bus lost by catholicism
hes been equally lest by Chriedeaky, rod gained by atheism,
nostorklisoe, sad a brutal indidsrones to the interests of
the soul. This has been the state of things with the en-
liglitemd einem ; end this was Ii tibia mere particularly
berried oar Prunes of the ledi antury tot s wok deplorable
were. And does not this sell of indigien extend Itself to
the people ? If the relative umbers of the Catholics and
Protestants in each of our provieese lime allairtidsed, who
will venture to affirm that of the Catholics a Imp prepornon—
the majority, perhaps—is not praMically indlihrent to one ae
the other form of worship ? The tpandlea whisk Mese,
then, is this : Shall we allow religiose belief is Weems
totally eztiognished in the eddst of s pow
Lao. absorbed Is material labour sad camtpled by
misery? Ought these seeds, unfortunately se degosmd, to
abandoned to the lempletions of an abfood menetelion ?
Do they set rather oiler a morel field whereon all Minion
commuiddat should be Invited to mercies their sal ? Is it
not better that the Christie* epesk should eamminicate a
portion, at its priority sad elm* M awe desolate
regime, wet at the risk of soak* Peoledmllma thine It
will be aeon that we do net appeal M peedene—Out we
soldrose ourodves to the sentiment of the good maw in
the judgment of flaioeme, who Mbar then struggle for the
severed limbs of her child. abandoned it &leg to her rive/.
We would prevent that which, mow ear people, is lost
to Catholicism, from being equally lost to Christianity and

to all religions belief. We would see the different cum
minions inspired by Christian emulation, flood France with
Bibles—firmly believing that despite the difference of trans-
lation, which, in the eyes of theologians, become dointatig
differences, but the subtleness of which escapee dap'e
perceptions, enough of the divine thine must ever remain
in this revered book to elevate the minds of the people and
nourish and purify in them the feeling of moral nem-
sibility.

M:Louis Veuillot is one of those who thinks you
cannot have too much of a good thing. To-day he
again " harks back "to the Lourdes miracle. He
doubtless knows how soon the most exciting novelty
palls upon his countrymen, and fears the subject
should, at least as far as Paris is concerned, did
away in the public mind. It seems that a certain
Dutch paper, and also a provincial paper called the
Laudon, published at Lourdes, have been saying
hard things at once of the miracle and of the editor
of the Univers. The first states, upon the authority
of a traveller, that the shepherdess Bernadette is no
more a shepherdess than Veuillot is a shepherd ; and
that, far from being a simple and ignorant peasant
girl, she is a cunning young bourgeoise of cultivated
manners, and declares that she has spent several
months in a nunnery, where she has studied, and, as
the expression is, been crammed in her part,
rehearsing it from time to time before select
clerical audiences. This unbelieving Dutchman
concludes by saying that the Lourdes affair is but
an amended edition of the famous Salette affair,
which the public tribunals have pronounced to be
the work of a juggler. The Lourdes writer, who
pooh-poops the whole as a pack of unmitigated non-
sense, considers that the divine grace was confined
to the shepherdess, and was not extended to the
great champion Veuillot himself. Veuillot's re-
reply is more feeble than is hie wont in such cues.
Possibly be anticipates defeat in the decision of the
commission appointed by the bishop to examine the
affair. He shuts himself up in a generality : "We
say that a miracle is everywhere and at all times
possible. We do not say that the incidents of
Lourdes form a miracle. That question concerns the
bishop."
The following letter is published in to-day's
I Moniteur :

" BIARRITZ, Barr. 12.
" The Emperor, accompanied by hie Excellency
the Count Walewski, the Prefect of the Landes, the
Prince de la Moekowa, Colonel Fart, and M. Moo-
guard, made an excursion yesterday to the Orz
marshes, lying in the middle of the Landes. It is
known that, after the signing of the Treaty of
Paris, his Majesty, wishing to acknowledge the
services of Count Weleweki and give him a
special mark of satisfaction, made him a pre-
sent of these marshes. But as their draining
would require a considerable outlay, the Emperor,
previous to making over the property to the count,
undertook to defray the expense himself, so that an
act of munificence might not entail an onerous
charge on the donee. At Cape Breton the Emperor
found the chief engineer and the engineer in ordi-
nary of the department, who exhibited to him plans
the execution of which would give to the numerous
mariners of this locality the means of carrying on
their fishing with greater security than heretofore
on these coasts, and protect many estates of private
individuals from liability to the yearly inundations.
As the expense would be a trifle in comparison with
so advantageous a result, the Emperor promised that
the works should commence immediately."