The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-29 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

LISBON, NOT. 2R.
The report current here to-day that the Duke of
Saldanha was dead is unfounded.
The duke's health has slightly improved.

SWITZZRLAND.

BERNE, Nov. 28.

France has afforded satisfactory explanations to
the government of the canton of Geneva in refe-
rence to the late violation of Swiss territory near
Geneva by French gendarmes.
An early settlement of the Ville la Grand affair
is likewise expected.

The Mooltan, the lergeet screw steamer in the
Niihaular and Oriental Campesjs fleet, has just made the
voyage to and from A rim, • distance of 6,000 miles.
81m Du been twenty-three days under steam, ban run at
the rate of nearly twelve miles an hour, and has only con-
sumed daily 27 tons of coals. This has been the moat
economic voyage ever performed, as far as the contumptiou
of fuel is concerned, and considering the size and speed of
the steamer. A short time sines such • steamer would eon-
same at legal BO toss of coals daily.
CILYSTAZ. PALLCZ. -•••• ONZ Samna, DAT.
TIMID" Nov. 17t —Admiesiaos on pareat, 451; ditto
by non %ski* 615 ; total rialtos, 1,0

The affair of the young Jewess, Sarah Meyer,
which, as I stated yesterday, has resulted in a Ter.
diet of acquittal on the criminal charge of abduc-
tion, is nut a theme for violent indignation like the
cases of Mortara and Sarah Bluth. The monks
and nuns who, in this instance, conspired to keep
the gitl from her pareete with a view to her con-
version, had some colour of excuse for their pro-
ceedings, and deterred, I have no doubt, rather by
a wholesome dread of the law, than by any respect
for the natural feelings and legal rights of heretics,
acted with a prudence and caution which are likely
to pass for moderation, and at any rate kept them
out the duck. The story is a very curious one.
The parents of Sarah Meyer were Jews of German
origin. The father, by name Linniwiel, was at
the time of the birth of Sarah, some nineteen
years ago, a poor pedlar. He married her
mother, concealing the fact of his having another
wife living at Hamburg, an I it is alleged
that *the second (supposed) wife, who bore him
nine children, never knew that her marriage was a
nullity until this prosecution was commenced.
Sarah was bora at a village in Auvergne, through
which her parents were travelling in the course of
their roving life. She was left in the care of a
Jewish couple, Monsieur and Madame &Weer,
who from no other motive, as it appears, than
private friendship and a fellow feeling for their
tribe, brought hei• up as their own child and gave
her an education which was so far above the
common run that it enabled her to writ* letters
(Rife good enough for a sensation noveL Although
it is not said that she was at any moment what
might be called " abandoned " by her parents,
they saw scarcely anything of her and corresponded
snider but asidunt.....l4o/nar, berioeter Whirr,
became so fond of her that he intended to bequeath
to her all his fortune, but, unfortunately, in conse-
quence of sudden losses he died without having any-
thing to leave. By his will he appointed au intimate
friend, M. Collet, a retired huisner (not a Jew, but
&catholic), his executor, and particularly recom-
mended Sarah Meyer to his care. IL Collet and
his wife cheerfully accepted the legacy of the girl
from their friend, took her into their house, became
attached to her, and treated her with every kind-
ness. It appears that during the lifetime of the
Jew Estener Sarah Meyer bad frequently been
spoken to by Madame Collet on religious subjects,
and that the child was much disposed to change
her religion. Naturally enough, when she came
to be under the guardianship of Mule. Collet, reli-
gion was often talked of between them, and there can
be nodoubt that Mina. Collet, whose husband proba-
bly took no active part in the matter, would gladly
have seen her a convert. How it happened that
Estener the Jew left his ward so confidently in the
charge of Christians, without taking any precau-
tion against proselytism, is not explained. Shortly
after Eatener's death, however, Liuniwiel, the
father—whose circumstances had improved during

the years that his child had been brought up. by
strange bands—wrote to M. Collet to say that he
meant to take his daughter home, and shortly after
his letter he arrived himself in the Auvergne vil-
lage to claim her. The first words of this father,
whose paternal duties for eighteen years had been
done by deputy, was to reproach his child in terms
of exceeding bitterness for being in mouruiug
for Estener. As an excuse for this brutality, it
is alleged that the Jews look with horror upon
the assumption of mourning for anybody but blood
relations. The girl Sarah, however, who most
naturally and laudably entertained all the feelings
of a daughter towards Estener, who bad brought
her up with the utmost kindness, was shocked and
frightened at her real father's unfeeling remarks.
She went out of the room under pretence of chang-
ing her dress, took refuge in the house of a friend,
Mdlle. Pauline Legay (who, together with K and
Mme. Collet, was charged with her abduction), and
from that day forth, for eleven long montlis,was eon-
cealed from her parents. During these eleven mouths
she was bandied about from convent to convent, and
conveyed from town to town, in various disguises,
sometimes being dressed in men's clothes. Letters
in her handwriting, declaring her intention to be-
come a Christian, were posted, through ecclesias-
tical complicity, in various towns where she
was not, for the purpose of throwing her
parents off the scent. Her brother gave up his
busiuess, and spent the whole of these eleven
months in looking after her without success. The
directors of the different conveuta in which she
placed, always under a false name, were so
frightened at the condemnation of Canon Mallet
for the abduction of a Jewess, that they passed her
rapidly from one to another. The expenses of her
frequent journeys were paid bye rich lady, Mme.
de Laroche, who is said to be au English convert.
All the religious houses which had her successively
in custody are able to allege, without there being
any positive evidence to the contrary, that they
either believed her to be an orphan, or did not
know that she was concealed from her parents.
At length she was voluntarily given up to her
father, who at once instituted a prosecution
for abduction against M. and Mme. Collet and
K Pauline Legay. It was then found necessary
to carry on the prosecution in the name of the
mother, M. Linniwiel, as above-mentioned, not

The Gazette de Madrid, of the 23rd inst., gives
the following speech of M. Pacheco on the Mexican
question et the sitting of the Bseate 91 Nair. 2a.; .
la order that the preen seot to Mexico (that perms
having boon myself) might possess great authority, it W-
eems necessary that the Spanish government should decide
epos following out as active policy la Mexico That policy
as be summed up as follows :-Ist.To place ourselves at snit
heed of the Spaindi race in America, giving the people to
suds nand that we had accepted their independence is a
spirit of good faith, hut that io the natural progress of the
world, Spain is, and ought to be, at the head of all kola-
victuals of the same race. Todly. There exists a nation in
Amenea which is not of Bpaaish origia—the population of '
North America—who have been rendered by eirsumstsneee
rivals of our moo That race alleges that the Latin race
ought to be sabordiuste to it in America; • rash pre-
terit" ia my opiniou, and ODO to which the Aaglo•
itaxee race is by co moons entitled. idly. Protection to
Spanish internale. I u Mexico alone there are 4000
opaniards, repreemitingasunt of 150 minima of ?Metres Sub
were tim fundamental principles of the instructioos which
were giveu to me. (Here the speaker read his instructions.)
la settiog out for Amariost, I, like every one else in Europe,
odoulated.on the triumph of Mimeo*. Ou my &nivel
tbiugs bad changed. Seaga Spaniards had been amossiutted,
and the murders had been committed, sot by private
. .

boss, bat by certain chiefs of the constitutional- forces be-
.longing to the army of J mats. One of those chiefs was
Carvajal, who, after these sanguinary acts, was promoted
to the rank of geseraL I understood at that time that there
was in Masts, • Spansh party and en anti-Spanish party.
I say a Spanish party, nut because they would be dimmed
to null their country to um, but bemuse they have at ana-
logy, an affinity with se, sad bemuse they preserve utr ori-
gloat traditiona. 1 saying -Spanish in speaking of the other
party,. because they began the war of indepeudence by
samasuating our fellow-countrymen, and because they
never aims to deny their °nuts. The Spanish party in the
one which rose against the constitution of 1857. They
count in their numbers all the celebrities of the country.
Cols) is one of them, sod Alamar and Bonilla, as well as
Leas, ltainirm, Father Shrauda, and lielguero. The other
party Miss us. It is they who *ell our country to the
Anglo-Americans, and who erase the name of Idexictui from
their constitution. The party which in Europe is

reactionary and clerk:el, is Hier tolerant and liberal.
It tolerates even the freedom' et religious creeds.
The federal party, on the other had, is a party of her.
harken and disturbance, a party whose object is not to brier/
about the annexation of ma country to the United State&
but rather to foment anarchy in Mexico by sowing
division and introducing twenty republics when there
should be but one. i may add that the majunty
of the Spanish party is composed of white IMO,
men like ourselves, whilst almost the whole anti-
Spaulah party is half-caste. With respect to the
Indian race, which constitute; taut majority of the
people in that territory, they are a most submissive race,
and are easy to be governed. Compelled sometimes to pass a
few days laving these people on nay journey to
Mexico, they used Wask um for news of the Queeu our
Sovereign. I answered them, "The Queen is my Sovereign,
and not yours, for you mu Minuses." Their invariable
answer was this : •• We have always heard our father my,
the King our Sovereign, and why may we not also say, the
Queen our Sovereign :"
On the Kira lust. Mr. Pacheco rammed his speech. Re
recapitulated what he had already said, and then continued
thus : Tue governments an Mexico lead • most precarious
life, Mk succeed each other with uumnimplel rapidity. The
catholic party is the one which evidently predominates in
Mexico He then read • variety of documents to
show the efforts he had made to resolve certain questions
interestiug to the Spanish resident& The Quesen'a govern-
meut had impressed elate 1.11111 the necessity of remaining
neutral upon the political mutters which agitatei Mexico
at the linos of his snivel. Nevertheless it was he who pro-
pused to Comers' Ortega the means which he cuusidered
proper fur putting 110 eud to agitation in the country. He
then read part of the despatch which he had addressed to
Juarez, when the latter seized the supreme government in
the state. He also read thu despatch of Juarez, command-
ing - him to quit Mexico, adding that this determination
arose from personal motives, and was in nowise caused by
anything iu Spain. The remainder of the speech comisted
of 4uutatious Irvin various diplomatic documents on the
Mexican question.

OUTWARD AMIRICAN MAILS. The steamship
Anglo-Saxon sailed yesterday from the Mersey for Port-
land, Maine, with the usual American mails. On Saturday
the Cunard steamship Europa will be despatched with mails
fur Boetou.
REPORTED CHOLZILAAT HAYTL—Reports having
been current. that cholera bed broken out at the port of
Hayti, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the
Republic writes to the Consul in London to contradict, on
the authority of the medical officer of the port, that there
is any foundation for such a rumour, as no case of cholera
had econrrtd up to the 24th of Oct.
JAMAICA, AND Till EXHIBITION Or 1862.—The
Governor of Jamaica is about to be memorialised to pro.
poet, to the House of Assembly that I,OOW. be allowed
to amble the Council of the Jamaica Society of Arts to
represent the colony in the forthcoming International
Exklbitioa.

On the news reaching bere yesterday afternoon&
that the Americans bad stopped In English mail steamer,

and taken the Confederate

from on board,

there was a strong feeling of indigostion expressed, espe-
cially moue gentlemen meeting on the Exchange. This
feeling had not undergone much abatement this morning,
but a calmer feeling took possession of the public 'mind as
the day wore on, and after the question had been discussed
with the light thrown on it by the press. There are a gre►t
many reckless men who would at once urge on a war to re-
dress the alleged insult to the British deg, but this is by no
means the general feeling, and amongst some of the lending
merchants the fret ebullition of anger is giving place to
anxiety, lest the government should too precipitately be
disposed in favour of a resort to arms.