The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-05 00:00:00

ITALY.

NAPLES, FEB. 4.

The fire of the besieged at Gaeta is very brisk,
and is replied to by the Sardinians. A vessel left
Gaeta last night, eluding the vigilance of the
Sardinian squadron. Prince Carignan has visited
the camp.

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TURIN, I. 5.
Ruggiero Settiwo has been appointed President
of the Senate.

The remaining elections have everywhere taken
place peacefully.
Brofferio and Crispi have been elected members
of parliament.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
_ PARIS. licater EVENING.

At the Bourse the effect a the speech, if;;;;;as
depressing. At all events, the Rente, after rising
in the morning to 68fr. 25c., fell, after the contents
of the speech were known to 68fr., being bc. lower
than on Saturday. Mobilier rose Ifr. 25c. In
railways there was very little alteration.

THE UNITED STATES.
QUEENSTOWN. MONDAY.
The Royal Mail steamship America, Captain
M'Calloy, from Boston on the 23rd and Halifax on
the 24th ult., arrived here at 2.50 p.m., landed all
mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded
at 4 p.m.

Sh; brings tiO passengers.
The mtearnera Niagara, Washington, and Mara-
thon had arrived out.

Colonel Mayne, commandin4 the States forces in
Florida, had telegraphed to President Buchanan
that he would not attack Fort Pickens, and that
the Southern States would avoid a collision, in the
hope of an amicable adjustment, and from a desire
to preserve peace.
The Senators from Florida, Al‘bani, and Mis-
sissippi had withdrawn from the Senate.

f3;3l;rgia bad signed a seccesion ordinance.
The Bank statement of the 21st ultimo showed
that the banks had increased their stock of specie
by 3,000,000 dole., and had decreased their loans.
It was expected that the amount of specie in the
banks would in the following week exceed
30,000,000 dole.
The Senate has passed the bill for the admission
of Kansas into the Union.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
New YORK, JAN. 21.
Exchange firm at 104 for hankers' bills. A large
busi-
ness is doing in stocks : New York Centrals are quoted 1406 ;
Erie, 40; Illinois Scrip, 80. Cotton, Middling Upland,
12$c. Flour heavy. Wheat dull. Corn easier. Coffee
and sugar steady. Freights firmer.
New ORLEANS, JAN. 21.
The cotton market is firm. Sales to-day 9,000 bales ;
middling, 11c. to Ilic.

LIVERPOOL TUENDAT.
The royal mail steamship America, from Halifax
and Boston, which touched at Queenstown yester-
day, has arrived here. The Secretary of the
United States Treasury reports that the expendi-
ture for carrying on the government till July 1
will exceed the revenue by 20,000,000 dols.
The steamer Arago arrived at New York on the
23rd inst.

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we receive
papers from Bombay to Jan. 12 ; from Calcutta, to
Jan. 3.

In the Legislative Council, on Dec. 22, the fol-
lowing message was received from the Governor-
General respecting the Mysore grant :

Is reply to the message from the Legislative Council,
Nq ItB2, the President in Conseil, with the concurrence of
his Excellency the GovereorCienenal, informs the Legisla-
tive Council, that the interests of the public service forbid
his ordering that the papers asked for by the resolution
which accompanied the message of the Legislative
Council should be laid before the Legislative Coun-
cil. That with the exception of the accounts spe-
cified in the first clause of the resolution, accounts
is which the stipends which have been paid from
time to time to the descendants of Tippoo Sultan
are debited, or such other account, or such abstracts of said
accounts as will show the total amount paid and credited to
the Mysore Family, since the time they bad been pen-
sioners of the British government. The other prayer speci-
fied in the resolution relates to a correspondence with the
Secretary of State for India, which is yet incomplete, and
the President in Council does not, therefore, feel that he
would be justified in transmitting them to the Legislative
CounciL The request of the Legislative Council will, how-
ever, be made known to the Secretary of State. The Preei-
dent in Council has the honour to inform the Legislative
Council, in reply to the concluding clause of the resolution,
that no payment beyond what has been usual of late piers
to the families of the late Tippoo Sultan, has been tussle
on any account or estimate, of which the results have
hitherto been laid before the Legislative Council.
_ _ .

In Sikkim matters remained u they were, opera-
tions being apparently suspended for a time.
The trial of the twenty-live persons charged with
a riot and assault on the income tax commissioner
at Hameln has ended in tho acquittal of twenty-
four of the prisoners, and the conviction of oue
of the lesser offence of obstructing the income tax.
Mr. Hunter, the commissioner, seems to have acted
hastily and without judgment, and to have seized
the wrong men. Mr. T. C. Anstey conducted the
defence.

A report from the Chief Commissioner of Oude
on the working of the trades tux iu all districts of
the province, " with the exception of Luckuow,"is
accepted by Lord Canning as quite satisfactory. The
tax has born levied on four hundred and forty thou•
sand persons, who have been assessed, on the aver-
age, at the rate of nearly two rupees a head. The
produce of the tax is 84,370/. ; and the chief coin-
'nisi/loner says this sum has been collected without
oppression on the part of the government, or mur-
muring on the part of the people.

The Empress Eugenic was present yesterday at
the opening of the French Legislative Corps, seated on the
right of the throne.
DEATH OP THE DACOHTER Or THE ARcHHIsHor
OP CANTERRCRI. --We regret to announce that the 'family
of his Grace the h rchbiahop of l'auterbury has been plunged
into deep distress by the death of his grace's youngest
daughter, who has been for some time past seriously ill.
The deceased lady was the wife of the Rev. Dr. John
Thome, Rector of Allhallows, Great Tower-street, and
domestic chaplain to the Arehhishop.
NEW SPIRITCAL PEERS.—DP. WigTant, Bishop
of Rochester, and Dr. Weidegmve, will take their seats as
spiritual peers in toe session of parliament which corn.
menses to.itty, the latter. as junior, acting as chaplain to
the House of Lords. Dr. Philpott, the Bishop elect of
Worcester, will not for the present be entitled to a seat in
parliament.
lattrorrox PROPRIETARY SCHOOL.—Mr. Vine,
from this school, was elected on Saturday to an open mho.
larship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. At the late final
public examination at Oxford, Mr. Berkley, from the same
school (Scholar and Mame Exhibitioner of Brasennee Col-
' lege) was placed in the first class in classics, and obtained
,an honorary fourth in mathematics. Mr. Berkley's name
appeared also in the first class io classics at his first public
examination.

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MUSEUM or PATENTS, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Feb. 2, 3,113.
Total number 'Once the opening of the Museum free daily
(12th Mar, 18b9), 320,000.
THE -PERFECTION OF MECHANIAM.—" In short
all the improvements for our convenience sad comfort, dating
from a state of barbarity to one of high civilisation, arc but the
cumulative results of inventive Ingenuity ; and in no instance
is this more clearly seen than in the history of those beautiful
Inventions which have from time to time been brought to bear
upon the science of horology. Trace it. history from the time
of the Romans with their clepsydra sr water•clock, and Alfred
with his candles, from houridssato and sundials down to that
miracle of ingenuity • The Watch,' and see bow improvement
has succeeded Improvement, until at last those now manufactured
by Benson. of Ludgate.hill, London, have been characteristically
described as • the perfection of mechanism."'--itandard. Ben-
son's Illuetrated Pamphlet, post free for two stamps, is desert.
tire of every construction of watch now made. Watches safe by
poet to all parts of the globe.—(Adverthetneuti_
Mr. A. Baocou Wine and Spirit Merchant, of
29, Strand. has altered his prices in accordanc• with the further
reduction of the wine duties. He is now selling excellent Port
and Sherry at lea. per dozen, and a good sound Oaret at tle, per
dozen, bottles laeladed.--(Advertiresaesai

MUSIC.

COVINT-GARDEN. —There was another concert in
aid of "the Mullah Fund" yesterday morning in Covent-
Garden Theatre, stated to be under the patronage of the
Duchesses of St. Albans, Argyll, and Sutherland, Lady
Auckland, Lady Lyndhurst, and other ladies of rank. A
number of distinguished vocal and instrumental performers
had volunteered their services, together with the entire or-
chestra of the Royal English Opera ; and the concert was
conducted by Mr. Alfred Mellon. It was a very good per-
formance, but presented no remarkable feature, the con-
tents of the programme being very familiar to persons ac-
customed to attend concede.

THE COVENTRY WEAVERS AND THE

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