The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-02 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. have reached
us. Earl Granville and his travelling companions
had left Madrid, and M. Barret, the French Mnister,
had returned to that city from the Balearic Wands.
Some of the journals recommend the government
to confer some honorary distinction on Abd-el-
Kadcr, for his services to the Christians in the
East. The Pope had written a complimentary
letter to the editor of a Seville newspaper called
La Cruz, who had sent him au address of
devotedness, signed by a considerable number
of persons. Some sensation had been caused by
the seizure, ou the 26th ult., of not fewer than six
journals, the Diecusion, Nooedades, Penaantiento,
Reins, Pueblo, and Spew ; the cause of the
measure is not stated. A meteorological pheno-
menon is recorded. At Malaga excessive drought
prevailed, and, in consequence, the price of water
had tripled ; but at Segovia the cold was excessive,
and on the 24th ult. there was a very heavy fall of
snow, and fears were entertained that if it melted
suddenly it would cause an inundation.

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BEYROUT, Sin'. 21.

Koorchid Pacha, the late governor-general of
this town and part of Syria, is now undergoing his
trial here. The court is composed of Achmet
Pacha, the new Governor of Beyrout ; Muatapha
Pacha, the Admiral ; Abroo Effendi, a Christian
employ of the government, and other Turkish
officers. But unfortunately for the cause of justice,
and still more for the prestige of the Turkish
government, the pro .wedings are all private, with
closed doors. The consequence of this will be very
bad. Already people are saying that had Achmet
Pacha of Damascus been allowed an open trial he
would have proved he merely obeyed orders. For
many years oast no Turkish authority whatever
has dared to take the slightest responsibility on
himself without making a reference to Constan-
tinople, not even in the most simple matters of
civil suite.

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About a week ago Fnad Paella summoned thirty-
five of the chief Druae sheiks to appear before him
within five days' and give an account of their con-
duct during the late events. The time granted ex-
pired the day before yesterday, and yesterday five
out of the thirty-five appeared. Those who have
I come in are Sheiks Benin Talhook, Y oursef-Abdel
Melek, Kassim Bey, Abon-Beker, and one of the
Amid family of secondary rank. In fact, each of
the great Dense families, except that of Djonblat,
has sent a representative, being one of each se-
lected as waked, or agent, for the rest.
A great number of the Druse sheiks, whilst refus-
ing to have anything whatever to do with the
Turkisk government, have offered to come in to
General D'Hautpool, to Admiral Martin, to Mr.
Moore and to other Consuls, and they all profess
to be only too anxious for a trial, provided that
half their judges are Europeans.
The President of the United States has sent out
to the American consul here a magnificent pair of re-
, velvets, handsomely embossed with silver, in a
silver-mounted velvet-lined box of American oak,
and intended as a present to Abd-el-Kader' to-
gether with a very handsome letter in English and
Arabic, acknowledging the services of the Emir in
the saving, as by his courage and energy he did, the
lives of so many thousand Christians. The gift is
elegant and exceedingly appropriate ; those who
know Abd-el-Kader best may trust be will value
anything in the shape of arms very highly indeed.
Strange it is, that whilst every other civilised
nation is sending out some decorative or other mark
of acknowledgment for what the Emir has done,
England alone should not do so. The Emperor has
sent him out the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honour, the setting and stones of which
are valued at upwards of 5001. ; and Austria,
Spain, Russia, and Prussia are sending him
decorations. . . .

P.S.—I open my letter to tell you that some
more of the chief Drone sheiks have just ooine in ;
amongst them is Sheik Syad Bey Djonblat, of
Moktura. On his arrival here this individual bad
the impudence ti call at the British consulate, but
I am happy to say that our consul-general, Mr.
Moore, refused to see him. Had be been ad-
mitted to an interview, it would directly
have gone forth that he was again under
the protection of the English government.
Everyone here is rejoiced that -Mr. Moore has
kept our national character clear from even the
suspicion of countenancing one so deep in the
accursed plot of extermination as was Syad Bey.
The Druse sheiks are all to be tried by the ex-
traordinary commission now sitting, and before
which Hoorah' Pacba is arraigned. Two brigades
of Turkish troops move into Lebanon to-morrow ;
the one under Ismael Pacha goes to Bteddin to
pacify all the neighbouring county, the other goes
to the south and towards Anti-Lebanon. Fuad
Pasha goes with the latter; Ismael Pacha (Kmety
of Kan) commands the former.

In a letter from Beyrout, dated September 12,
it is stated that the number of persona then receiving aid
out of the British Syrian Belief Fund was upwardsof 12,000.
At Sidon 2,000 were daily relieved from that source.
A Berlin letter states that the Prussians residing
►t Ancona have called on their government to obtain for
them indemnities for the injury done to their property by
the bombardment of the place.

A correspondent of the Dfbals, writing from
Naples, states that Garibaldi has looked too lightly on the
dillicultim el attacking Capes, which pleas will not suc-
cumb, he says, to lire. "The Dictator must," stye the
writer, " arid Capon /01110 night with Conveys rockets.
There are seven depots of gunpowder in the town, and the
greater part of the town is of wood. The housed being old
will soon catch fire, and the place must then surrender."
VISIT OP PILINCZ NAPOLEON BONAPA UTZ TO
BlWrTOL.—Yeskirday afternoon hie Imperial Highness
the Prince Napoleon Bonaparte paid a brief visit to
this city. His highness came from Dublin (ailing en
route at Milford) in the French steam yacht Prince
Jerome, a fine vessel of 1,200 tons burthen. The yacht
anchored in Kingroad, where the prince made a good many
inquiries. A small river yacht was then launched, in
which hie imperial highness proceeded up the river to
Lamplightere.alip, where he and hie unto lauded, and took
a carriage in which they proceeded to Bristol. The dish's-
gulahed party went to the White Lion Hotel, Broad-street,
where they were joined by some foreigners whose names
were not ascertained, but who had wane from London to
meet them. After remaining for some time his imperial
highness returned to lamplighters', and proceeded to the
royal yacht, which readied down channel, The wince
and his petty expressed themselves greatly delighted
Uhra
the scenery of the channel and river.
MCIOIIII OP PATE:NTS, 13013111 KINSIXOTON.—
Num umbervisitors for the week ening Sept.
five ;
total eines the opening d the museum daily
Way LI, isse), 74702.