The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-27 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The Band concludes an article on the Swim regi-
ments at Naples with the following remark• :
It tea real happier:vs for Switzerland to see the last trace
of • wound that has endured for arm, her foreign terries
disappear at length. The Swiss °Moan and soldiers left at
Roam and Batavia belong to foreign legions, cmaisting of
elements recruited In every countq, and not one of those
ismstries„ any more than Switzerland, clue be toads specially
responsible for their deeds.
The acts of insubordination that bare marred within the
last few weeks throw. In • military point of view, • sombre
light en them last Swiss regiments, but military history will,
se • set-off against title, pre,erre the remembrance of their
great deeds in 180.
However aid the came m►y be for which they fought, they
maintained not the lees for that the old renown of Swiss
gallantry. The days of Noples. Messina, and Catena Lear
in this respect comparison with the Resat of which the
of other stat,s have since had mum to be proud.
Wit whet vigour, great in • very different way, should we
not have seen there same regiments fight, if the Neapolitan
policy had thought proper to dieplsy in .he late war the
Italian limner, and prepare for their prowess • arc and
lee•u. more tortnnate, wham, than the first, when three
troop., Matted of gathering laurels wet with tears and the
maledictions of an oppressed people, might ham shed their
generous blood for a cause that would have secured the
sympathies of the civilised world, and have founded the hag-
gisess of en intelligent nation !

MATERIAL AID FOR CENTRAL ITALY.

TO THE !Paoli or TEL EXPIEOS.

Sfit,—The letters which are appearing under this
heading are of cheering omen to all who desire
Italian freedom—to ail Englishmen in whom love
of country means love of the traditions which should
inspire the freest nation in the world—pardon me,
Brother Jonathan-1n the Old World at at any rate.
Now is the time to show how hearty is Eng.
lish sympathy with the patriots of Central Italy.
We are perhaps rather in the habit of limiting
our sympathies in political movements to those
who aim at our forms of freedom and
in our sort of mode, forgetting that we, too,
once fought in rather unconstitutional paths for our
freedom. But in this cue there can be no such
objections urged to the conduct of the tnen of
Central Italy. Without bloodshed or disorder their
thrones are vacated by the abdication of their
princes. Will those who revere the memory of
William the Deliverer deny the right of Tuscany
and the Duchies to declare that their Jameses
should not be forced back upon them ? Will civilised
Europe endure to see Austria pouring in her armies
to assert again her predominance over lands not even
held under the broken treaties of I 81.5? Surely,
never !

Now is the time for Eng:and to speak. If diplo-
macy fears or hesitates, that need not stop the ex-
pression of English sympathy—the rendering of
English aid. •• T. D. I'. H." will give 501. ; so will
I. Sir, I will make one of a hundred men to give
1001. each, just to mike a beginning. Where are
our yachting men ? Would they not like a trip to
the coasts of lair Tuscany, and an interview with
Garibaldi on delivering to his trusty hands their
previous freight of rti-e ? Or, should a committee
charter a vessel for themselves, and WOlk, her hard
in her glorious trade?
I throw these things out for others' consideration.
lam ready, however, to aid in every way.—l em,
V. A. T.
City, August 26.

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE CALCUTTA MAIL

By the arrival of the overland mail we have
received letters and papers from Calcutta of July 16,
and from Hong Kong
,of July 5. The following is
from the summary of the Overland Phccnir ;
The Intelligente of the fortnight Is that the country con-
tinues quiet; that close on 8,000 European soldiers of the late
Rut ludia Company either have token their discharges or
are e. to apply for then under the orders recently Joined ,•
that a sow taxation act, the Stamp Duties Bill, has been laid
being the Legislative Council, mush to the satisfaction of all
parties; that the 28th inst. has beep fixed upon se a day of
general theskagiving; and that, se • consequence of the state
of things the later Is significant of, the King of Code and all
the state primers he Poet William have been released.
We hear nothing of the Code rebels, but that they are in
great distress from slobathe beyond the frontier. They will
probably try and steel Into the British territory in =all pas-
ties, the native police officials to allow then to re-
main concealed until their misdeeds have been in a measure
forgotten.
The exodus of the European soldiers of the late East India
Company is what was to be expected. The men were in
justice entitled to their discharges, sad this once conceded,
they were too anxious to revisit England, and for change from
the monotony of barrack life, not to avail themselves of the
concession made them. None in this country are to blame
for what has occurred, which has really been an inevitable
consequence of the Transfer Act, and must have been fore-
seen by the framers of that act. What has taken piece,
however, shows that men do not remain In the seems
through li the tame option which has been ac :ceded
to the men of the Indian colic, were now to he offered to
those of the regiments of the rine, the resat would be the
eame-75 per cent. of the men would go.
The mutiny at Berhanipore is at an end.
A very bitter feeling mean to exist at Berhanepore with
Fboth to theremoval of Mejor Maitland, and the up-
luen t of Colonel Mackenzie. It is said that Major
Oland wea removed without inquiry, and that Colonel K.
Mackenzie, al a Queen's airier, is legally unable to com-
mend an Indian regiment. We cannot altogether coincide
with either complaint. We know nothing of Major Malt-
lend, who may be the most competent officer in the empire. It
Wicohwever, just that the commanding officer of a regiment
dleobeys should be removed. His business is to
prevent that sort of thing, and if from circumstances, or
character, or the virshece of the men, he cannot do
It, he must accept his mistatnne, as other moo
accept fathoms In life not embed by their own
errors. TM appotheineet of Colonel K. Mackenzie te a dif-
ferent question. It is jut, provided an lodise wind con
command a Queen's regiment, and not otherwise. It is,
however, we imagine, an exceptional appointment, made for
a limited time, in consideration of Colonel litekenzie's repute
for determination and habit of control. The ill•feeling pro-
duced is a strops evidence of the impolicy of maintaining •
system under which her Majesty's *oldies can conceive
themselves Injured by obedience to her lidejesty'. officer.
The affair is, we hope, over. Tile government is by this
time convinced that the FOOS& order, wise or otherwise, has
coat us an army, and the next move must ho from England.
The reecho of the first affair at Meerut ooght to reach us
with the mall of 24th June.

The following exeunt of the release of the King of Owlet
is from the daily Amain of the I Ith instant :
•"nui proclamation of the restorstioe of peace and tran-
quillity throughout her Majesty's dominions in India has
been signalised by the release of the en-King of Oude and
the other stets pn.oaere so long confined in Fort William.
" This took place on Saturday last, about half-past 4 p.m.
We undetut ad that the memos bad been for some time
previously resolved upon.
" Ever since the King was placed in confinement, the
Queen, or Khas Mahal me she is celled, has resided at Gar-
den Reach, and hie been untiring in her exertions to obtain
his liberation, employing es her agents Mr. Newman*, of
the Calcutta bar, and Mr. Goods], the attorney.'
The following le the letter of the Viceroy, semouncing to
the King bis liberation:—
"To His Majesty the King of Oxide. Sir,—ln sours of
the lettere which during the past two years I have had the
hamar to receive from your Majesty, request has been made
by your Majesty for your release from Fort William. It
would have been very agreeable to me to comply with thin
request long ago, but the condition of Hindosses, and espe-
cially of the province of Oode, has made it im-
possible. Your Majesty may not be fully aware of the
use which has been mode of your name in fomenting die-
settotion and memo ; but you are perhaps informed of the
fact that for men than fifteen months 0110 of the most active
mends. of ea Ants kr bass the Beduin Sanest Mahal,
arks armadas in bee ova person and in that of your
Majesty's sou, Seigle Kadr, to repreemt your Majesty's
hoar, has supported this prseeeufon by masons of the
Witmer* hostility to the British government. Nevertheless,
when by the advance of the Commander-in-Chlet's army, the
Begun. and her partisans had been driven from the British
territory, to booms fugitives in Newel, I caused it
to be intimated to her that upon surrendering to the
government, she would receive all the consideration which
is due to her ma • woman and a member of • royal hen's.
She ems told that political power she shouM never have, but
that by prompt salmi/nice she would secure a generous
treatment and en honourable position for the rest of her life.
Unwisely, and influenced by evil adviecre, the Begum ben
not availed herself of this off,r. I regret that it hat bees
too ; not only for your Majesty'. sake, but also for the sake
of many who have beta misted into following her hope-
less cause, and who, had she accepted the offer. might long
en this have returned to their homes in peace and security.
But the Segues end times about her are now powerless against
the British government, and I am unwilling that your Ma-
jesty should suffer longer restraint on account of their imp,-
tent enmity. Your Majaty Is free to leave Fort William
whensoever it may please you to do to. All the members of
your Majesty's suite are likewise tree to leave Fort William,
but as regards eases of these penman certain conditions of
their lib-ration will be communicated to them. I desire to
acknowledge the courtesy which has marked your Majesty's
oommunicarions to myself, and I have, Oct.,
(Signed) "CANNING.
(TM COpyltemi. CHAS. MACLEOD,
trar Foreign ."
The secret of the intention to release the litillawoe kept
well. It was known to none hut the releasing offloria up to
the eleventh hour. Had it by any chaste become known
bef teased, the Bengali schemers would have wade sane
thousands by the affair.
Strides the en-Kier. a number of other state prisoners,
also confined In Fort William, were released on Saturday.
Among than were rim Nawah Alli Neely Khan, bete vizier
of Oude; Tickent Res, formerly In the service of the Khan
Mahal, and who wee captured by the adjutant of H.M.
63ed Regiment while driving furiously through Calcutta ce•
night 1.1867.

CHINA.

arras the Overland CUJI4 Mail, of July 5.)

The 14:edon mail of the 10th Nll4 arrived here on
the 22nd ult.

In our last overland summary it was mentioned
that the latest news from Shangtiae represented the
British, French, and American ministers as on the
eve of their departure from that place for Peking, ria
the Gulf of Pechelee. They left cn the 16th ult.;
the Hon. Mr. Bruce in her Majesty's ship Magid.
enne, with the Coromandel as teuder ; M. de Boar.
bonlon in his Imperial Majesty's ship Du Chayla,
with the steamer Norzagaray, and his Excellency
Mr. Ward, the United States minister, in the
Powbatan, with the chartered steamer Toes-wan.
Admiral Hope left for the Gulf three days before,
in the Chesapeake; and a large British force,
consisting of 7 steam ship', 10 gunboats, and 2 troop
and store ships were to rendezvous at Sha-lui-tieo,
about fifty miles from the month of the Peiho. Every
precaution had been taken to force, if necessary, ad-
mission to Peking. and the proper exchange of the
ratified treaties. Between 600 and 600 of the Royal
Marines, with 100 of the Royal Engineers, and a
number of seamen, were to accompany the Hon. Mr.
Bruce; while abundance of provisions ready for land
package, with 200 of the Military Train Coolies,
would render the expedition in great part inde-
pendent of the Chinese. These Coolies of the Mi-
litary Train are all Ilakkat, and were enrolled
for service at the taking of Canton, where they
served us most faithfully. and were known under the
title of the "Bamtoo Rifles."

From the attempt made by the Chinese imperial
commissioners at Shanghai, it may be inferred that
obstacles will be thrown in the way of admission to
Peking ; but these have been overcome, and it is
extremely unlikely that the Chinese will have re-
course to any overt acts of opposi•ion. It will be
atter the ministers have obtetned admission to the
capital that the greatest difficulties will be likely
to arise. The obtainment of n personal interview
with the Emperor, the dispensing with ceremo-
nies, which may place the foreign ministers in a
false position, and, above all, the carrying out that
stipulation of the treaty which provides for a resi-
dent British minister at Peking, will tax the ener-
gies and test the firmness of their Excellencies the
Hon. Mr. Bruce and M. de Bourboulon. No core
have yet come down of an advance up the Peiho, or
even of the expedition having reached the Gulf of
Pechelee ; but as ten days had elapsed from their de-
parture when the mail left Shanghai, it was pre-
gamed that they had been allowed to anted the Peiho
without interruption. We areleft entirely toconjecture
what may be the end of the diplomatic and military
conflict which has been carried on with China for the
last two years, which as yet has only resulted in
but waiin nee procured a treaty
that, if carried oat, must effect immense changes in
the &tura of China, and in the position of Europe
in Eastern Asia.

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From the ports there is almost no news of the

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slightest interest. At Canton the Governor and
Hoppo paid a 'Mit lately to the British Consulate, a
condeecension never made by such high as-
thorhies before. if the consulate is really, in seems
likely, to be established in the city, in what woe for-
merly Ysh's yamun, Canton will be always, and
without difficulty, kept open to foreigner! in Wan*
so long as it is in the hands of the imperial authori-
ties ; but there is a very general expectation that the
rebels of the south will demand upon it whenever
our troops are withdrawn. The *election of BM,
mean u a site for the foreign factories has
been followed up by a contract with two
Chinamen for filling up the site, great t 4
of which is at useent under water.
execution of the work has been interrupted by the
death of the contractors (it being rumoured that they
were poivoned), but is again being resumed.

The Southern rebels have received some cheeks
lately, and it s hoped that the state of commercial
Natters will improve in consequence ; but business
has been very dull, and there are no immediate signs
of improvement. An amicable reception of the
Foreign Ministers will improve trade at Canton, and
remove the slight check given to trade at Shanghai
by doubts on the subject.

THE MED]

MALTA. AUGUAT 22.

On the 11th Mr. Simpsoo, the Purveyor to the
Foveae in Melts, was found deed In hie bed. He wee a very
eleven young roan, 24 years of age, slid highly respected.
Five of the men who were insabardlaete cc booed her
Majesty's ship Marlborough have been brought to Malta by
her Majesty's ship Emmaus, which vessel requires some
repairs. H. Mejetity's ship Exmouth remains at Naples.
Her Majesty's Alp Liffey la to be statLned at Athos'.
Her Mersey's skip Urgeat le now at Corfu. She le ex.
ported heck to-morrow, sod will proceed to England shoat
Thursday an'.
Les Majesty's ship Wanderer Is here for a rat.
The cable has hese laid from Malta to Sicily, bet will not
be open for soma days yet.

Admiral rosette.; aid four sail of the hoe are sow
eight of Malta. By last ecaotutte Row-Admiral Maady's
Beet was ..ruishog of Yeeeiue. The Cressy was with3ot
col

The Newcastle ChoateSe saps:—" Sigma Menial
is si pretest wisps" at 134.11 s for tin pewee of rsemittog
las absorb. Hs Is saws,' from sevaelsbast, sad inked.
nassiatag St pre.est abode for aims dais."
Signer Costa is understood to be eogsgsd in cola-
pain a DIV oratorio; toe tont, as bans Is by Ns. &flaw.
LAMM.

Monday eight, the last of Ur seam et the Prin-
cess's, WI aoadails Ilr. Charles tar's tie
Soil play auMaled Wag Jii.l Ile.l /441.1. Mr.
Km will ilenver ea &dims.

MI day week, Sat arday, September 3, a private
Mew et she Liverpool Society of Al.• •11 be ball. We
(Aliheereas), hear that, 6t additice to webs by Mmes.
Derma, Oasis, liorelg, matt other meths Mils, tee
lababieles v U seclude several warspies of the Dusseldorf
echo I, tee by Lit, ow by Acheabsch, sod about twisty
other', together with work' hors other Continent+, schools,
Pane, Belgium, sod Bream.

_ -
Dickens has commenced his promised tele
In the, pages of chit New Jock Leifer. It ts to ran aely
throne' two or threw numbers. mart each wsekly lastahaatt
is hut deer nano. columns.

Mr. Theckeray's moutbly, to be peibl,..hai by
Memo. &nub Lad Mar, is, we (Larrary Oeutte) believe,
t) be as t is plies as character.

Mom; and Co. ant about to produce
• •est moveably under tbe paktum of Mr. Deem, the
mother of "Tom Br.rwe's &boot Days."
We (Ganglions) regret to hear that Marshal
lialoodo bee h• 4 • relapse, and part at Ida right side
HD parlay& 1.

" All classes of bathers" in the Serpentine have
snit, lls tending a latter to the rt.. defending their
favourite river. They say that the emulatios of the Serpentine
has 1 fen grossly exaggerated, and that the Hems " slinking
peedeattal pool, &v., which have km es freely
Indulged is are /imply absurd. There ars Emanate springs
which afford a groat quantity of he* wat lf to the lake, and
It is only in intensely hot weather, when great multitude'
of bathers flock to it, that the entre gets oat of condition,
and it rapidly rights itself aga,t.- They hope that the
present depth of water will be left to them. These are de-
clared to be the unanimoss sentiment' of the bathers in the
&mambos. They are vouolieehd for by the signatures
enclosed, which ere sot a tithe of what could be obtained Is
tea minutes .18 o'clock say woratag."
DEATH Or THE COONTRIS (DOWAGER) or Noa-
at have to announce the daniles of the Countess
(Dowager) of Newbury, who expired on Thursday mathing,
at en early hoar, at her residence in Beirrovs-sqoare. The
kte countess married, the let Janoarf, 1808, the late led of
Noebary, which unfortunate soMenias was moldered at ids
seat is Ireland, is January, 1839. The deceased es tees
woe mother of Lady Orem Vandeleur, Lady Georgina Re-
bow, Lady Braybrooke, aad Lady Isabella &sweet. The
lasomited lady was only daughter and hearses of Mr. Wilma
Brahman, of Brahma-put, county disyci.
LIMITED libtas.—" Maria Saandera I partieularly
remember. bad formed a singularly low estimate of heavenly
tbiore. She was crippled, and wasted away, and the mortal
tenement 'mined warmly to hold together. So, ore day
I nail, Never =fed, Maria, all will be changed; there
ail be no polo. or sorrows; sad we shall hare • new body,
even a hear, u:y body.' Ah, sir,' she said, I sin ex glad
to beer you my me. I do west a mew body eery bed;
and I want a oeir Mirk too.' ledeed, the sobleasey no-
tions of the poor are very often stating. A friend related
to me that owe when he had rather mystalkod is old
railer with the texts he quoted in answer to his itiqnhy es Or
mime heaven would to h.*, and what kind of happiness to
hope for, the rid man rt,laimed—' Yea, air, all eery good,
as your honour sari; no doubt of it; bat, says I, Old
Engleed for me 1 " —Twenty Tears in tit CAartA, by the
ker. J. Pyertilt, B.A.

SIIIRZ7 GARDENS.--We heat that Mr. Simms
las parthased the muenster eleven years elect the 1.11101. sf
this pleas of anteaemeni has to eau, lot dm em d 3,000 L.
is otter to cups-art the 'ardent let. a jardm d'hierr, the
chid feature of which .all be &listing oa the take.—Liferery
Gesttge.

House STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—Between the
hours of nine and ten o'clock on Thursday night a terrine
thunderstorm treks over the weig-end of the rottropols,
particularly in the Immediate locality of Malik-hill sod Kil-
burn. A fee minutes alter tea a remarkably vivid dash of
forked lightning illonalamed a flue of houses known as
Lmark-villas, situate in the Clifton-road, Paddington,
earthiest No. 16, Is the occupation of a gentleman named
Hart. The roof wee completely destroyed, and the shifts of a
Feat poems of it, together with large quantities of brick
from the main chiensey.were scattered .beat the penmen. is
all discetions. lhe elastnc fluid appeared to till all the rooms
of the I. ,ix, paisiog directly through the roof into the
attics, thee°e into and down the chimney to the kitchen,
where it scattered the boot and fire in every direoloa,
knrckirscr over furniture, brsiliag glass, and causing a
female servant who was then at the time to beat a hasty
wrest. When the occurrent* took place the only
person. In the hones bmide• the set vast alldded to were
him. Hart and her ulster-ter-law, Wm Hart. who state that
at the same moment the house war snuck, the forked light-
ish's •;.peared to dart through the doorway, sad the whole
• r....tn.c1 to tv in a bias% and, in fall, all parts of the
host. elmet in !Dines The severs chock, the illumine-
non of the various 1.044., and the mash of falling bricks and
stmt.', elate, s les, &h.. amuck them with the keenest terror,
and Mi.. Ilan, sappoling the tows...(Jima, to pieces asd
on fire, ru.h.d into the road and ran to a neighbour'. how"
for amens. s. Both ladies sad fervent purridenually es-
caped unhurt. D re*. tly alter the hoes was struck th- ram
fortunately descended a tomtits, and but for that the
probably complete demolition of the building moot have
issued by Ore. ins! pftviona to thia destructive and alarm-
ing ocenneare, the servant ma. preparing to retire for the
sight. mid had it takes plate a In. !muslin, Ist,r, bar life
liruinhl have Wm siscriamd, as bar sleeping roam wee de-
_

A I'IIOI,I7AM-I .TAKE."—Os Thursday morning
tw., en. bed et Whitby deb rend the thonueei ameba .."
t,i ,ette rf berrisss, each 1.0 rout-tieing le,ood.
i,r, Bitstrlti:i.—The Rev. 1)r. Wolff :3 jest re-
',ln, I film an eatandee tour la I.:Gilead, in which he has
bey u cussed is isersestog the curds toothed kr
• hew rburrh at this plate. I John Pekeistea boa
aoa-
rated to the ',twiddles oleos of the sew building, a
retest by 'Web will probably Oho shot very shortly.
The fade/vett:at de /Tamest gives the following
w, 4int of death when bathing :—" On the *using tithe
Y3,"'"ion• Angst. of Madjess, (Neyensid, eennepsalsd
I y ttr,. MAllto. Lowy, her cowls, mat so bathe, se mad,
is a vete .1 ..ter floss to the old dream where May nada
Its toles Italkel Into the water Mad is bawl. hat,
tau Irrtu a :fly, sire:de I ter hr,
_aa4 Maims.
Aare: ellipse' Iwo • deep bob, bowie. ths saw
Idles .l:er When they sans se Hs MAIM wok, ass
of thus rolled ',tally for Nip, wed was ~Mod by IL
I,way, brother of the mu men WM" Ma immilletely
plunged id, se i, dot jut after his Ames hreAsalad is omen
theta H. wet asp!. wads nosy east to wane Ma-
dsen, Segel, but la veto. fer the body was set fogad OD the
sett The .tafert mats Vitthll of this scaliest wss
*sty 25 yeas alp.-

THE POLICE COURTS.
(Thls DAT.)

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ILANISION-HOUSE.
1110111111 T OP Apl EIIFLOYIR.

Williamßsrrw_c 19. Ina efteried;ritisiealing four gen-
alsaaa's scarves, la 6d., belonging to his employer,
Hr. Tatman, ag.aeet ,fts Bishopmgate-eireet.
Watkinm, a dneta• re, stated theton Wednesday he followed
the primmer to a pawnbroker'. shop In Houndaditch, and
one him there pledge two gentleman's metres, after which
be followed him main, with the intention of
seeing where be went to, bat mimed him on his way.
Oa Friday, however, he met him aria in Tluewbundle-
stnet, end followed him to Mr. Yeteman's; and wheat asked
whether he knew anything Moat any gentleman's warms,
be admitted that he had pledged four belonging to Mr.
Ya,eman's stock, bat amerrted that it was his
fleet offerme, sad belled hard to be forgiven. He
was, however given into custody, sad his box was marched
without anything more bring found that belonged to the
prosecutor.

A pawnbroker's assistant produced foe. scarves which had
been pledged by the prisoner, two et a time, and which were
now identified u the proaecutoe's property.
Mr. Ashley, who appeared for the prisoner, said then
could be no denial of the act of robbery, but that the primmer
had ale tys before borne a good character wee shown by the
foct that he originally entered the service of Mr. Yellen= es
reter, end since been taken into the shop to wait behind the
counter. lie wee also very respectably connected, end he (Mr.
Ashley) thought the cue wee one In which the ea 6 of
justice would be anseend by the lowan unites.
The Lord Mayor said the offence wee a vsey mime one,
especial' efter the Madness which the prisoner had ea-
pr the presents, and the primer must pto
prison la Ws weeks with herd Most.