The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-26 00:00:00

TEI FOREIGN BUIL&

DnaArca or me AIIIRIC•21 liArza.—Soura-
Arpror, Frs. 25.— TM North German Lloyd steamer
Weser, Captain Wenke, sailed this often:Loon with the
English, Freneh, sad German =silo for New York. She
took trot 92 cabin passengers and • large cargo, Intledlng
Fran& jewellery vales 28,000 Gana, and geld each from
Loudon 33 ,0001.

DISPATCH OF CAPS MAHAL --SOUTHAMPTON,
Fn. 25.—The Union Steam Shipping Company's mail
steamer Cambrian, Captain Saari, sailed this aftarnoon
with • !navy mail. paniengers, and augo for Cape Town
and Alio& Bay.
Tag HIATT BOILBAY Kans. --Bernina:now,
FIT. 25.—The Peninsular awl Oriental Company's SWIM.
ship Syria, Captain Christian, with the above mails,
arrived this afternoon. She brings 00 passengers, 8 peak-
ages specie value 1,4151. 18s., and 9 boxes gold ban value
44,0901. ' • also 588 packages general cargo, of which are
393 bales raw silk vales 28,0001. Exchange at Oitentar
unaltered.

CALCUTTA urn CuncA Mins.—MAlssuass,
25.— TY. Pew arrived thh monies. The mails
Lave Or the 11.30 trail. Lotter. late to-morrow sight.

deputy chisiconstable, Mr. Vincent, with Mr. Berns,
superintendent of the Bodmin police, proceeded
to Padstow. After a careful examination of the pri-
soner, the officers became satisfied that they bad not
secured the man Ayre, but being impressed with the
conviction that there was some mystery worth
solving about their prisoner they waited on Mr.
Bawling, who remanded the man to Bodmin. On
the way thither the officer. seem to have become
convinced that the man was no drover, but one
who bad been accustomed to the refinements of
life. His gentlemanly demeanour and converse-
tion showed that the prisoner was of a much higher
' grade in society than he assumed to be, and on
arriving at Bodmin he was re-inspected and com-
pared with the description of the Rev. Benjamin
Speke which appeared at the time the reverend
gentleman vanished. This at once set all doubts
at rest. In every particular the man corresponded
with his portraiture, and after a careful
observation they became unanimously satisfied that
their prisoner was no other than the long-missing
clergyman. His luggage was searched, and found
to include several suits of clothing and other
articles, enabling the possessor to assume various
disguises. Some books were also found with the
" Deck Haswell" written in them. The
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isomer was then taxed with being the Rev. B.
Spoke, of Dowlisb, and after some considerable
hesitation he admitted that he was that gentleman.
The chief constable at once communicated the fact
to the friends of the long-lost man, one of whom,
Mr. Murdoch, forwarded the information to
Sir Richard Mayne, chief commissioner of police,
as our readers already know.
We learn by telegraph from our correspondent
at Truro that on the discovery by the chief con-
stable, Colonel Gilbert, at Bodmin, that the person
arrested on suspicion of being the absconded man
Ayre was the missing clergyman Spoke, that gentle-
man was treated with every consideration. The Horne-

office and Mr. Spoke's Mends were telegraphed to,
and yesterday morning Mr. W. Spoke and Mr.
Murdoch, the brother and brother-in-law of the
clergyman, arrived at Bodmin by the London mail,
and had an interview immediately with Colonel
Gilbert and the Rev. B. Spoke. Detective sergeant
Williamson, of the Metropolitan force, accom-
panied those gentlemen, and they subsequently
started for London by the first up express. -'
The Rev. B. Spoke gives the following account
of his proceedings since leaving London. On the
night of his disappearance he went to Basing-
stoke, and the next day walked on to Win-
chester, a distance of eighteen miles. Thence
he proceeded to Bishopetoke, Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth. He remained at Ports-
mouth until the 20th January, visiting during the
time various places in the neighbourhood. He
then proceeded by steamboat to Plymouth, where
he arrived on the 30th January, making that
place his he►d quarters till February 16. Whilst
there he visited among others the following pluses :
—Egg-Buckland, Tamerton, Roborough,
Ivy-
bridge, Cote-Hele, Saltaah, and St. Germans. In
the latter place he attended church on Sunday,
Feb. 16. He proceeded next day to Fowey, a little
port on the south coast of Cornwall, where he
remained one night, and walked on to Lostwithied,
nix miles, the next day. On the 20th he walked
another six miles to Bodmin, the county town.
There he put np at the Queen's Head, a small
second-rate inn, intimating his intention of
remaining there for some time. On the following
day he went on to Padatow, a distance of 15 miles
on the north oast, where he was arrested. He
left his luggage, consisting of one large beg, in
which however it afterwards appeared were several
smaller bags, at the Queen's Head.
Two hundred pounds in bank notes and gold
were found upon him. When brought to Bodmin
he was a little excited, but talked rationally with
the chief constable. He appears, however, to hold'
peculiar religions views. His great object in
leaving home %. as, it seems from his own statement,
to get to • country where nobody knew anything
about him, that be might labour for his living and I
preach the gospel to his fellow working men. He
had, he slates, obtained • greater insight into the
spirit of the Bible by lonely study on the rocks by
the sea shore, and he felt his responsibility.
On being asked why he did not go abroad at
once instead of wandering about England, he re-'
plied that it would have been of no use to attempt
to do so, as he knew this telegraph would be at
work and the detectives watching to stop him. He
hoped by moving from place to place to tire out all
search, and then, after a time, he should be able to
get away from a seaport without molestation. He
bad laid out a plan for future action when
arrested. He intended to return to Bank
and attend church there cm Sunday, the Mai
then to visit various points of interest on the
Cornish coast. and afterwards pressed to Din-