The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

STATE OF SYRIA.

The Seale of the 20th ult. has the following
obserratioas on the recent arrest of Joseph Karma
in Sria
They arrest of Joseph Earns, which has bean ensconced
by telegraph from Aissaedris, is, we think, of a estate to
revive all the mmiSeatimas of the ate* of Syrla. We do
sot yet know to w rinser and under what min pretext
Daiwa Pasha ma have caused the seizure of the Manes
Sheik of Ilmleadisi be had for nom time sought it. What
we, bower*, lIM3W ti that the tree same of the arrest of
Kansas is that he was the sword of the Lebanon—the man
is whom the Mamba bad placed all their web:lmm end
who, is 1860, eared from mmeacre 40,000Chrishans who bad
Wee refuge P the Kosmen. He was also a friend and de-
voted sem* el Preach inflames, aed that has beet fee
his a core of sore than proscription, and that cease
assist foists's* *my Fithelimen is hie fate Miriam has
eke for centime mem a right to our nympithim —he is in
the Lebsim the men of new ideas, and the adversary of the
old feudal regime. repramited by the Fun of the Scheteb
hmily The latter party, for adm supported by Flame,
made memos cam with the Turks through ambition jar
power at any prim and Kamm remained aioM protecting
his oeunkrymea In the name of Miegreat rind*, of modern
equality, mid of the right of D'Alene. The French govern-
ment, as we hare already said, will not allow it. most faith-
fel friend is the Lehman, sod the was of proems ad of
the future, to beam the victim of the rancour of fanati-
cism. We made on this
the Ot is the wagegemests entered
into before the country byMinister of Foreign Affairs in
hk Sae despatch of the lak al May last.

THI 013SWAILD MAMA The Cunard Royal
Mail steamer &t rope wee despatched from Liverpool on
Saturday with the United States and North Aniericse
a Lupe number of pompons, and upwards of 49„3201. in
specie. On Wednesday the Liverpool, New York, and Phi-
ladelphia Company's steamer City of Washington will be
despatched from Liverpool for New York with mails for the
United States ; sad on Thursday the Quebec and Montreal
Royal Mail steamer Jura will leave the Money for Portland
with the Canadian and United Slates mails. The box at the
lAverpoel Post-gam for the receipt of letter, kr., intended
to be forwarded by the Jura, will be open on Thursday un-
til 11.30 a.m. Late despatches may be forwarded rid Lon-
dondeery up to &30 p.m. without, and until 9.30. p.m.
with late fees of Id.
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TIRAYT GALE OT WIND AT MANCHERTER.—Late
flatarday eight a strong gale of wind sprung up in Man-
chaster wad it, neighbourhood, from the west, which by
one o'clock on Sunday morning bad increased to one of the
moat fearful hurricanes ever remetubend there, and did
not abate till towards five o'elock. It was feared much mis-
ehief would malt to shipping on the Lancashire coast, bet
very little damage to property had been heard of in the
neighbourhood of Ilisockester up to Woe o'clock, when our
report left.
&SAY SHlPPlNG.—Notwithstanding the dulness
generally prevailing at this *owe of the year, the past
mouth has whammed continued activity in steam shipping
' Several purchases have bees made, and a am-
ble amoent of tonnage has changed bands. Our
market, however, ni still supplied with useful vessels, and
there sates a steady deemed, which is farther upheld by
the heavy loam recently suffered in steam shipping pro-
petty. Some of our builders have received additional
orders, and no doubt further impetus will be given to the
building of steamers in the spring. The upper Baltic ports
are now closed ; from the large arrival of manage reduced
rates of freight had to be accepted. From the lower porta,
for grain, fair rates are offered. Some vessel, have been
axed, for fruit cargoes, from the Mediterranean, and freights
thence, though not active, are firmer. Better terms are
also quoted from Alessi: aria, Salina, and Odessa, and
forward vessels will command good freights. A large quantity
of produce is offering for the North American States, and
as good rates are offered for grain bons, several owner.
bare already embraced the opportunity for vessels of good
tainage.—Front the Circular of Messrs. Alfred Brett
and Co.
NIGROZE IN TIM SOUTHERN STATER. o: they
sang ; how they laughed and grinned ; bow they
bowed, and complimented you and each ether, those norms
of the cities of the southern parts ot the WM United States.
My business kept me in the tows& ; I was but io one negro
plantation-villsge, and there were only women and little
children, the men being out a-field. But there was
plenty of cheerfulness iu the huts, nuder the great
trees—l speak of what I saw—and amidst the dusky
bondsmen of the cities. I witnessed a curious
inanity, heard amongst the black folk endless sines&
shouting, and laughter, and saw on holidsys Week
Larand ladies arrayed in such splendour and corn-
r:
free-born workmen in our towns seldom exhibit.
What a grin end bow that dark gentleman performed, who
was the porter at the colonel's, when be said, " You write
vosw mains. niaa'r, else I will forget." lam not going into
the slavery question. I am not an advocate for " the outdo.
• as I know, madam, by that angry toes of your bead,you
are about to declareme to be. For domestic purposes, my
dear lady, it seemed to me about the dearest institution that
can be devised. In shoes, in a Southern city you will lied
fifteen iegroes doing the work which Jelin, the cook, the
housemaid, and the help do perfectly in your own com-
fortable London house. And these fifteen oegroes are
the pick of a family of some RO or 90. Twenty are too sick
or too old for work, lot us any ; 20 too clumsy ; 20 are too
young, and hare to be nursed and watched by 10 more.
And master has to maintain the immense crew to do the
wort of half-a-dozes willing hands. No, no ; let Mitchel,
the exile from poor dear enslaved Ireland, wish for a gang
of is fat Riggers ;" I would as soon you should make at,
I a present eta more of Nagai elephants, when I Deed but
a single stout horse to pall my brougham. —Cornhill Maga-
' sine for December.

The following official prohibition of the export
of gunpowder, saltpetre, Ire., ge published in a Londow Ga.
edge Extraordinary of eitanday
NT 1111 Ql7lllll.—A PROCULNATTOW.
Victoria, 13.—Whereas In and by • certain stadia*, made
and pallid In the parlianasat held in the 16th mad 17th
rani if our reiga, and initialed, " The COWIN Orneolida-
tioa Act, 1863," it ia. smog* other thinp, deflated and
enacted as follows—that i■ to my : "The folkuriadgook
may, by proolematioa or order ig ornmail, be prohibited
either to be exported or carried ocastrike ARM, &Maui-
ciao and gunpowder, military and naval stores, am; any sr-
tickle which bre Ralik shell joke capable of being =a-
verted into or nude voaful in increasing the vitality of
military or gavel stave; provisions, or say sort eti Aetna
which may be vied as hod by man, sod if say gooks* pro-
hibited shall bee:ported fm the United or car-
ried coastwise, or be water-bons to be so exported or car-
ried, aholl be forfeited.'

And whmeas vs have thought fit, by and with the advice
of oar Privy Oossail, to prohibit either to be exported or
carried cesstwie, the articles hereinafter easetioned (being
mallet which Os judge espial* of being converted into oc
samle mogul in bwreerias Messiimintity of stilihery sr naval
101114." *waft 4 *al the advise of ear Privy
Cesehlift, wad by tide ear royal proclamation, do order and
direct that, from sad after the date hereof, all gunpowder,
saltpetre, nitrate of soda, and brimstone, shall be, end the
mine are, hereby prohibited either to be exported from the
United Kingdom or carried coastwise.
Given at our court, et Windsor, this 30th day of Novem.
bar, in the year of our Lord, 1861, and in the 25th year of
our reign. God ave the Queen.
At the Omirt at Windsor, the 30th day at November,
1811. Preis* the Quesn's Most Excellent Majesty in
Conseil. Pawls' it haw appeared expedient and news-
rwry to bar Majesty, by sad with the advise of her Privy
Council, to prohibit the articles hereinafter meationed to be
exported or carried coastwise from the Weeds of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and the Isle of Man respec-
tively, except as hereinafter provided. Her Majesty is
therefore pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy
Council, to ceder, sad it it hereby ordered, that from and
after the publication of this order is Oil said
islands remseethely, the following artialee--ameely
gunpowder, saltpetre, nitrate of soda, and brimstone, shall
be and the same are hereby prohibited to be impaled or
carried coastwise from the mid islands of Jersey, Guernsey,
Alderney, sad Bark, sad the Isle of Mss respatively, except
with the Breese of the Lieutenant-Governor or other officer
adminietering the government of such islands respectively
for that purpose toot bad and obtained. And the Lien-
tomat-Ouvernon of her Majesty's islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, and the Lk of Kan respec-
tively for the time being, are to giro the necemsz7 directions
herein as to them may appertain.

Etnicotoomai. Smarm—A meeting of this so-
ciety will be held tomionow, at 8 o'clock, whea the follow.
will be mar-1. An account of the Dyeks or
et Bonne, with a description of the
Sarawak, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of
Lobos& t On the ISMSODISS sI the widen part of North
Americo, by E. B. Tyler, Esq.
CotAnot oa, Pitiecnrroas.—At a meeting of the
mewl of this corporation on Saturday the following
Mnm we eland members of the collar :—Rev.
DM," B. A., Ede:abridge • Mr. Thomas
Emus, Bleckheath ; Mr. Edw. Ewer, Wig Edward
VL's Balsa, Bath. Mr. J. R. Hannsann, Frans-
well ; Mr. T. P. Howe, Ipswich; Dr. Roberlein,
Binondee ; Mr. W. Mills, South**; Mr. H. Nickles',
Beanal.grorn • Mr. W. Pettit, Stratton, Hann ; Mr. J.
Pincett, Briztoge.hill ; Mr. E. Keypads, Bataoft • Mr.
C. Stewart, Altos ; Mr. J. Thompson, Bowdon ; Mr. E.
W,past, Bandsworth ; Mr. G. S. Whiteside, Dowapatrick.
ROYAL 001110 Z 01 SURGEONS 01 ENGLAND.—
emend meeting of the Court of Examinees of this In-
Mitation es the 90th ultimo, Mr. James Edward Fawcett,
of her Majesty's ship Chesapeake, passed his esmoina-
ties for naval surgeon. This gentleman Ind previously
be admitted a member of the college, his diploma bearing
den July 71,1865.
FINSBURY Etzenow.—The only candidate now
is the field for this borough is Mr. Remington Mills.
Mr. Cox, the late member for the borough, has announced
that he " wall be glad to meet" the electors an Tuesday
evening, the object of the meeting, uo doubt, haring some
0011•11.1110111 with his re-appearance as a candidate.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. —On
Saturday the whole of the galleries at the Baker-street
Samar were cleared in madams for the reception of the
agrieultund impleresuts intended for eakibition at the en.
suing cattle show, and Thursday next, December sth, at
three o'clock, in the last hour at which any specimens in-
tended for exhibition can, by the rules of the Smithfield
Club, be received. A. a proof of the increase which annually
taker place in the deemed for space for the exhibition of
inaplementa, the number of stands provided for this year
amounts to 967, exactly 100 more than existed at the allow
of last year. Amongst them will be 22 locomotive apicul.
total engines and 12 with working machinery, and it will
require all the ingenuity of Mr. Haines, the manager of the
department, to acoommodata the applicant.. The last hour
at which the cattle and other stock will be admitted to the
farm yard will be eine o'clock on Saturday evening next,
after which time no specimen will be admitted. The
judges will make their awards, rod the private view take
pLee, on Monday, the 9th, and the show will open on
y, the 10th, to the public, continuing open the three
following days.
CHURCH CONORESS AT CANDILIDUE.—A olorital
and lay conference of some importance closed on Friday
seesaw at Cambridge, having commenced its sittings on the
preview Wedeesday. Among the notabilitim present were
the Bight Rev. Bishop Chapman, the Very Rev. the Dean
of My, Mr. Beresford Hope, the Rev. Lord Alwyn()
Orioptom the Hon. Oohs Laidsay, the Von. Archdeacon
Deraion, the Rev. Dr. Hems, Mr. J. R. Mowbray, /LP.,
Mr. J. 0. Hubbard, M.P., Mr. R. A. Cross, I.P. Re.
Ups the vexed question of church rates, Mr. Cross, M.P.
for Prestoci, took se his theme, " What scheme is now
practicable," and the conclusion at which he arrived
was that persona on stating thaqthey conecieutiously objected
to pay the rateasedd be excused from doing au in a con-
ciliatory meaner. Mr. Henry Hoare brought forward what
was styled the Leaden ehucchwerden's scheme, which ap-
poem! to be that distorters should be excused paying the
rate, not by the vertu generally but by such members
thereof as had actually paid.
_The Rev. Dr. Home con-
tended that the church of England was essentially the poor
man's church, mid tnat church rates were a neuesity for the
poor. The Veuerable Archdeacon Lennon expressed Iris
opinion that churchmen should merely assume an attitude
of passive resistance and leave matters in their present
state; for his own pert h« would go for abolition rather than
compromise. No resolution wu adopted on the subject.
RELIGIOUS MOVEMY.NT ANIONOPIT RAILWAY Elf-
' PlOTOL—Yestenbay morning, the Mat of a series of novel
and interesting "Breakfast Meetings" amougst employa,s
of every trade in the service of the London and North
Western Railway Ckampany took place at Easton station,
the object being to induce them to listen to arldreases from
persona of celebrity, with a view to inculcate religious
and moral feelings amongst them. It was announced that
Mr. W. Cawkwell, the general immager, would preside, but
in consequence of unforeseen circumstances he wan unable
to be present. Mr. David Stevenson, the goods manager
of the London division of the railway, occupied the chair,
and at half-past 8 nearly 400 of the emploi,"ii mat down to an
excellent breakfast, which had been prepared for them in the
carriage department, and amongst the gentlemen present
were the Rev. Canon Champoeys, vicar of St. Pancras ; Mr.
Joseph Payne, Mr. J. B. Smithies, editor of the British
Workman • Mr. Hugh Owen, Mr. Bull, the railway mis-
sionary, Re. Mr. J. B. Smithies first addressed the meeting,
enforcing the necessity of temperance as the stepping stone
to all moral sod nodal advaucement, in whatever station of
life a man might be placed, hut more especially amongst
those to wham care in the management and carrying out the
details of a railway the lives of thousands of their fellow-
creatures were intrusted. The Rev. Canon Champneys
took up the religious part of the subject, and dwelt upon it in
appropriate terms. Mr. Joseph Payne tied the Rev. Hugh
Owen having also addressed the meeting. a hymn was* sung,
and the proceedior closed as they were old nod, with prayer.
THE DI:POSIT RINE..—We understand that th sol
citors fur the official mansger have applied to the Master of
the Rolls to take the examination of the directors of the
National Arconaee and Investment Association in open
court, and that en early day will Ire fixed for that purpose.
A contemporary dates that Mr. J. H. Cutterell, chairman
of the Bath board of directors, has voluntarily conveyed the
whole of his property, except the home in which he resides
andlthe furniture, to the proper parties for the benefit of the
pourer of the Beth depositors Mr. Cotterell, who is a
member of the Societ of Friends, has had a large practice
se a hod surveyor for many years, and is • member of the
Bath Town Council. The property which he has thus
devoted arsenate to several thousand pounds in value. The
liminees dose by the bank in Bath was large, coseequent on
the esteem in which the directors of the local board are
held, and the confidence reposed in them by the public.
ORE OF LONDON HoarrrAL FOR DISEASES or
TEE CHEST. VICTOELL-PAILL—The number of patients re-
lieved at this institution during :aet week was 1,013, of which
181 were sew cams.