The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

OUR PARR 8 LETTER.

(roost ors OW ODZIPAIROXIIMIT)

PaR/8, lieverr two k
You may have possibly heard of the OSII 1%.
in Lyons caused by the summary ovieis,,u,'l;
Sunday of the public from the /Act
there, because the Duke de Pereigny had
his intention to visit them in the co
arse of tai
-day. 4ffinestory seemed to mob Imprchold '
I did not venture to mantic* it at Host .r.ill
'go= Ilassans woe formed out of funds 4;
mnibsd by the townspeople in addition to
slipapaatm It is only open twice a wee:
flessaay and Thursday. The former is the
"Wit the working-losses resort to it, sod, to
area he it said, they avail themselves
the opportunity to acquire some notion, ",;; '
It therefore fall oat that above a thousand
weti deprived of an snonstomed reoreestierr:' -
way that could not fail to gall them. Into
foeemson a menage arrived from the dub. t„ the
effect that he purposed visiting the museum
nt
hoped the director would be there to show'
over it. The director being 1.1,„".
eabordinatos took upon themselves to send
=Me wherewith to form a sort of igurd
and with the keepers clear the.
which they did in an authoritative
people thus shown the door naturally iolo.t
4-
great potentate had come unawares envoi; them,
and were not a little surprised to learn diet it
only a new fledged duke, who being no
office cannot sot up to reflect the inajosty of tie
Emperor in any great degree. The, loot
the joke is that after all this fuss M. it:
never went to ace the museum at ail.
that he is ashamed of what happen.,
that be signified any desire to have
all to himself. The " superior adia::iier...•
whatever that may be, diselaims all n•-•,,.;
for an act which it gives out vrim
work of subordinates; but the moral cif . .
drat is that under the democratic . . •
spirit baa taken deep root.
It is whispered at fit. Cloud that n . .
Princess of Wales but the Q 11.4.0 pr.,,..
the Empress of Austria will Ip• the.
Court at Coropi;igne in the • ti.l,
and that 1868 will thus, in a gr• 111:11.,r•
the omission of certain soveretni
princes to bring their ladies with tb..e.,
the cause of much hearthurning in •
Empress of Russia is, however, uut ..i!.
yet it is said that on taking leay.•
--
host at the Paris railway statiou, ti,. 1.. •
Russia promised that she should
I have already mentioned that Fstn.s. II;
is to preach the Advent sermons thi. y. sr. •
Dame. There has been a great strur.f...
the Carmelites and Jesuits for this p. iv.:
as the Archbishop of Paris favow s : • -
order it has gained the victory. Thor :•
talk of Father Buhr, the Empress's r•t 7 •
obtaining the pulpit of Notre Dame din:,,. L •
Hyacinthe will, in his four Advent seno.a.•.
the influence of Christianity on the sods: r
Ladies will be disappointed to learn that the.
be excluded from the nave, which, having r.
the position of the pulpit, is the best - •
seeing and hearing. Those occupying seats .i.
aisle nearest the pulpit cannot see the pi...v.:: •ei
all, and as a great part of his eloquence c no. •
action, the loss to his fair admirers will' ~
durable. Father Hyacinthe belongs to
school of Romanian', who, to conquer ue'.
are ready to hold out the band of fellow-:..:
Christian churches rejecting the Papal aut'.
Baptism, followed by good works, are, &co):
to this teaching, the really essential things. :.
Jesuits governing the Pope are obliged pract:
in great measure, to accept this doctrine. Doi..
manner in which his Holiness acts upon it t.niz:
promote discord. The Sultan looks with s:srr.. •
the consequences of the invitations addre.:W.
his Holiness to the bishops of the Oriental
to be present at the oecumenical conned next y-c
the Caar and the Emperor Napoleon having .
an excuse for pushing their rival influences.
Greek patriarch refuses so much as to owl
papal missive, on the score that what has
out through the newspapers is an insult t.
Oriental church. The Armenian-Or,g,ri%n ;••
triarch, on the contrary, has favourably re,,,'.
Pius IX.'s epistle, and promises to send repn.
tatives to the council. This divergency bets-
the schismatic patriarchs is considered a very
portant event at Constantinople, where it t• -
girded in a purely political light. The Cor.
schismatics are avowed partisans of i.•
the Armenian-Gregorian are vassals of
Russia is at this moment using all her induen.
induce the Armenian patriarch to retract h:,.•
ceptance of the Popes invitation.

THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND AND PRINCE
POLEON LT Tousuar.—Hur Majesty the Queen .•• •
Netherlands visited Plymouth yesterday (Friday
Majesty visited Mount Edgcumb. and was ?1.e.:,
the Dowager Countess of Mount F.dgcumbe
Browniow. Her Majesty was highly pleased w •
reception she met with. arid returned at 7 o';'. S • •
Royal Hotel, Torquay, where dinner was iu-•
Last evening, at e.lO. his Imperial Huth..••• • •
Napoleon ccousinto the Emperor of the Er. !- • •
ponied by Colonel Ferri Bimini. Dr. Beran.:• • . •
amved at Torquay station, and drove to the .• • • • •
where apartments had been previously
Nuellens for his imperial highums. After d 0,:.. •
Panes Napoleon, who is a cousin also of the L; •,, •••
Netherlands, took tea with her Majesty. N -4 =
biers of the nobility and gentry of the neighbo..:h •
inscribe their names iu the Queen's visitors' 1,.•1 .
at her Majesty's rmadence, the Royal note: • •

T 1 Mrs.
THE EpiscopAr. Clil'llol IN An
provincial system of the prate-twit episcopi. ••'
according to the report Fuboutted to the • .!
in session in America. divide; the church in - •
State, into six provinces, so follows -The pr,
New England to comprise the dioceses 4 I
Hamps Vermont. Mesa chueetts, Conne.t. •
Rhode island; the province of the Atlantic to : •••
dioceses of New York. Weatern New York. Perm.; '
NowJeney, and Delawarr.llie Proven:ea
Oat of the dioceses of Ohio. Michigan. Indum. I. -
and Wisconsin. The province of the AlleghAny:'ti
•-•
mist of the dioceses of Virginia, North CAreix.a.
Lucky, Tennessee. and Maryland. The pr i
Alabama to consist of the dioceses of South Ie
,s .36
tieorgia, Florida, Ahibama, and Missiteippt.
vine. of tbe MiseiMippi to consist of the Stomas,
fornia, Tema, Louietans, Mimouri, lowa
Minnesota. The senior bishop.of each prelied '
'."l' -
primate of the same. There is to be
province, composed in the usual manner.
DIPUTATION TO TIII 11101 IT HON. 110.1
OT MATO.-On Saturday last a depot:igloo iretit ,
•
Christian Vernacular Education Society for India !.
interview with the Hight Hon. the Earl of Mayo.
Viceroy of Indio. The deputation brought before ho ••
rutvabiomiapreitager.tb•:.iv°er h;::tr svii;:;:i aO7 ta ab
u the
o uthP:ltith.ug°othefverntlkeem.a:viyinitvun'tak:il.tfill.:
Christi:in eilM3diouists had already done to
Christian vernacular educatiou in the fourteen pr.
huigusiges India. They urged upon his 1001-h•I
isuposiaace of the government carrying out fully .
Tiling for eiteuiling vermicular educatiou cokt.... • •
the despatch of ISA, particularly thole prvi,.."••
creating a vernacular educational literature. The? •• •
that their society had eipended upoo
.publhati.no . •
AVOW. during the ten years of it. exidemie and
aid is this vitally important department of their a., • •
hitherto been plaited to t hem by the govenimin it. Ile
ship tereived the deputation in the moist gracious in
and promised to give the important subject t!,`
brought before him his most earnest attention. 'II,
ing gentlemen formed
this deputatiou : -Sir Hope ‘'
;Faish and J. F. Th.assi,
Clarke; Yr. H. Cure Tucker, C.U. ; Hr. KAM 01.
Mt. Mr. A. I Env. C.C. Fenn, Culoarl
sm. sad Mr. Godes.

LONDON AMUSEMENTS.

T111:4 EVENING.)

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T II NATRIti.

1,, . • " A M'LI ttnflP." " KiMt Wshant.t." -4 Weds*.
, • -.• A 00-01,estIVe Movement." " Lomb." " A Pretty
11„,„ ; ituAisuvas."-7
• t'y tut the auk Maw." "Moats Cridlo.-7
14:" '

" A eharuitne Pair." " After Dark." "Master
itoilulay."- 7 o'clock.
•• Married Rake." "Thu Rightful Heir."-7

••• amber 104 Clasher." " The Tiniest of Leave Yea."

The Troubadour." " The Loucuehbe Tom" —7
, For relit/elan we advt.
theterly fkiSiN)." "The Mil of the Cloth el Oold."
• id.rnege at eAy Price." —7.30 o'clock.
TV% II of Atehi !" "flasiety."--Lke o'clock.
• roc. —" Now far Row." " latfoetta Bum* M.D., La
titark• Doctreaie."— 7 o'clock.
y„ v.n.—'•Married Boughton." "The Eke sad Fan of
Leteni "The Migrate at the Milt"-7.M Weise&
Boy." " Lead Bate awl Water Bata."
..lueuttful fat liver."-7 o'clock.
Wsua.—" Two Loy, sad a Life." " The Cullom
Nye "--7 o'clock.
• Asearrim Ana, flotsam. Avolo. &ewe fa the

fie. de.-7.30 ceeleek.
aL Atraaa.—" lindee Binh." " Named Cut Dlaammed."
rut raehoolaze wee advt.
yrtesme.—Poorth Oct of " Tiegiaine" " The OH, Old Rory."

Blarbeeed."-4.46.
precnalw.—" Madge Wildfire." " A Story of Beidail."-7
o'clock.

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OTOSOWS BALL, I.4NGHLII-PLACS.—Xf. Mark LOIMOTI ma

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/6.orrrias HALL. Piet' \Oil-LT.—Yr. remise Norton'. Enter-

tatamnot. —8 o'clock.
Eol AL roLrrucexic. —The Electric Organ. Ike.

,kt-troND TRACIEDTpr BOARD A COOLIE

SHIT.

The Japan Times of September 5 contains the
!allowing: Ca the night of the 25th ult. arrived the
• triiie from Hskodate, with news of the occurrence there
,ingular and someviLst mysterious circumstance. On
ltsh inst. a foreign-built barque. with • full poop,
• from 350 to 400 tons, came into that harbour from
Jrubti. whence Flie had been brought by Japanese pilots.
• , as an old ship and in a very dilapidated condition,
I -,:talhint masts gone, and all rigging in disorder and
i.•:tepair. She -had only two boats. No name,
▪ 't papers, nor other means of identification
• il,overable. Off the quarter the name had been
• i fromtlie boats remaining, it had also been erased.
• tie of the bells was the name Bertha, but this, under
:r.onuitance of the evident intention to conceal her

• ::r.tc, can hardly be regarded as the name of the
:hough it may afford a clue to her
breocacrition
•hi 11.0 side of such a bell be traced. On were
• .two Chinamen. common coolie*, not sailors, all pro-
: -irg goorance of the English language. Through a
• :iwc-e interpreter, the account of the men ou board
a - nisi:e out to be that the vessel was Chinese owned,
t she had left Macao about seventy days previously
chow, with an European captain and officers, to
• I:Lieber of five. and with fifty Chinese sailors, of
1., in they were the
ii remainder, eight having died
ropeans. they raid. had abandoned the ship dur-
;:.: 3 ,ale of wind, tokiug with them two boats, the
for which stood empty. From another source of
salon we are told that they reported themselves as
I..cuip. left Macao for Lima in 1 ebruary or March. It is
I necessary to ,av that this statement was received
a.l. incredulity. A thorough examination of ship and
aas proceeding when the Sunrise left Hakodate on
inst., and the following are the discoveries
which had then been made. Seventeen of the men bad
coolie contracts, numbered irregularly, the highest number
being ffint. They were written in Sinish, and were
nude out for the Italian barque Proridenza. Their
times were from May to July, 1867. Many articles of
European make were found; • trunk nearly
new, with canvass corer marked Lima, Peru,
track as might belong to a supercargo ; some
hildren's boots, a carpet stained with blood, and a quan-
t-y of European clothing of good quality, shirts, guern-
seys, trousers, ice. The Chinamen were using European
i.oking utensils and knives and forks, while of ordinary
Chins* coolies' cooking is very few were found. In
the hold was a quantity of- hoop iron, some gunny
and a little flour. There was no evidence whatever of the
presence on board of any Chinaman above the lowest
clans—no China fittings in the cabin, such as • Chinese
captain, owner, or supercargo would have, nor any Chinese
clothes of value. The floor of the cabin had evidesity been
lately scraped. During the examination it was acciden-
tally dierrovered that among the forty-two men were a
couple of interpreter', though when the vessel was first
boarded all pretended to be quite ignorant of any language
tut their own, except one, who spoke • little pidgm
English. These two were remarked to be laughing toge-
ther at tome observations made in English in their pre-
ethce, and on being taxed with the fact that they under-
?, od what was said, acknowledged that they were inter-
irtters, sad when the Sunrise left were assisting in the
examination, under check of the Cantonese originally act-
ing for the authorities. We dun receive before we
stay again,bro doubt, further information which may clear
up the mystery from this affair. Forty-two men will
hardly keep a secret, if there be one which would bang
any of them ; for men haste to betray, when they fear to
be betrayed, and if the case be properly conducted, there
should he little difilculy in getting the evidence of some
s4unst the rest. Of course the hypothesis is that •
dreadful crime, or perhaps an act of that rude justice
which is called revenge, has been committed. These
Jaen may be the survivors of some frifffitful
stniggle, like those of which too many
coolie ships have been the scene. Their own etate-
e:ent of the European crew deserting them must
be of course rejected at once. Five men would not take
:way two bests, nor would European sailors abandon a
ship in a gale of wind which had suffered so little as this.
Then the Chinamen are not sailors. They helplessly
crited to the coast near Nambu, and were taken up. to
Dukodate by Japanese pilots. The vessel and her ragging
taus in such a state as no sailor would have allowed them
tc, go to, and altogether she had the appearance of a
vessel left, far at sea, in charge of an ignorant set of
landsmen, and which bad by accident of currents
and winds drifted to a shore. The presence of a
quantity of European clothes and other articles unaccounted
for and certainly not likely to be on board a Chinese-
(mixed ship, also makes against the clew's story, as do also
the coolie contract papers. Some seamen's accounts have
also be. n found, made out in Italian, and the supposition
tele:Hug the vessel in Hakodate—• natural one enough
—ice that she is the Providensa, that she left Macao for
WADS port on the West Coast of America some time about
J.ly, 1867, with at least 300 coolies on board. That
the peseerigers rose upon the crew, overpowered them,
and killed them all, losing doubtless a number of
tl.eir own force in the struggle, and afterwards from
sccunes That, ignorant of navigation, they steered the
thiptsck to the east, having noted the steering to have been
r :ways weeterly ; but, set up by currents, struck the coast of
jaw instead of China. The absence of the two boats
may be accounted for either by supposing that pert of the
Chinamen preferred taking their chance in them, or that
they were lost in bad weather. What has to be dis-
covered is China is the recent existence of such a ship as
the Prervidenza, and when and under what circumstances
the lift the China seas.

The following letter in the Overland China Nail gives
additional information : —" Sir,—ln sour issue of this day
;sou refer to the suppo.ed coolie mutiny on board the Pro-
vident*, Captain -Nattini, and conclude by saying, ' 1
have received such information as leads me to think that
there is no doubt that the ill-fated ship is the Provi-
dt mac' I much regret to say such is really the case, and
that another coolie tragedy has to be added to the list.
11. e following are the particulars I have received offi-
cially :—• On the 19th August last, a ship with topgallant
and topmast gone, without any Europeans on board, and
with no flag or papers, and with the name taken away,
tritered the harbour of Hakodadi. The Japanese autho-
rities took charge of her, and then referred the matter
to the consuls ; 47 Chinese who were found on board
were arrested, and they declared the Europeans had,
ccder 'trees of weather, deserted the ship in two boats;
r, me mintracts were found on their persons, which bore
the name of the Italian ship Providenza. On this Mr.
lutzow, the acting Italian consular agent, took charge
ei the vessel, and on closer examination found a
LeU with the name of Bertha, 1836,' engraved
tpna it, and mark. of blood on the saloon and
acme doors. No boats or cannons were to be
found.' There are the particulars I have for the vresent
2toeived. The Italian ship Providenza, Captain Nattini,
r!cared from this port with 28 Europeans as crew, all
told, and 382 Chinese coolies for Callao. The captain,
who 11,th here when the Theresa put back, said he would
take all neasseary precautions to guard himself against a
aimilai tragedy to fiat enacted on board the Theresa. His
,16,1 children were not on board ; they are in
1.12,9• It remains to be seen what has really
hapi teed. From the fact of no boats having been found,
thei sal twin and his crew may yet turn up. The former
Tuactice of ailinwilig a coolie ship to lay in the roads for
two or months with those wretches on board, in
riirlit and yet closely confined on board, allowed
thee' docbqess much time to form their plans to regain,
1,,g1, seas, their lost liberty.-1 am. dear air, your
rlasl rat • BADAO DO CEBC/114 Italian Consul at
Nairn, September 11, 1868.
French ship Henri IV., another coolie ship,
't wi•nk, after the Providenza, with same destiziii.
Lon,"

Camel. PALACM. HALF-A-CUM!, DAY.—
EiTtkLmr, Ocr. 31.—A/hided:es by mem flake**,
ditto cm payment, 713; totalliam, 6,611.