The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1861.

furtho down to inveigle Mr. Conlon into the trap thus I
kid for his destructicie. Mr. I:onlonlredt neifortunatedy,
sent all hi. boys away to gather grans ix the roof of the
new house, and wad unattended, when Nan-be-lent waked
up to him, and asked foe eorne calico for b insult and the others
of the party who, be raid, were waiting at the Illiision-
houle. Mr. Gooks took up a piece of board, and wrote on
it with a piece of charcoal, " Give these men a yard of cot.
tee each.' This be gave to the savage, and told hint to
take it to Mrs. Conlon, who would give him what he wanted.
This, however, would not have suited the intentions of Nara-
he-feet. He told the missionery that ova wished particu.
lady to sam hint, :toil to ;;et some medicine for a sick man,
and that be had. therefore, better go up to his own house.
Mr. Gordon, pointing to a plate containing some food which
Mrs. Giallo.) had scut lola, " 1 hare not yet eaten,
but sever mind ; I can tie .o a. well at the house." And
wrapping up the plate in his handkerchief, he started up
the 1.111, hillowed by the native. On arriving at the am-
bush Narn.litt.leet buried his tomahawk in Mr.
I Zmoloo's spine. lie immediately (ell, uttering
a lowl rry. Naru-liii.leet gave him another stroke on the
ri,;Nt ..10 of the Deck, which almost severed the heed from
the laxly ; and the others, rushing from their concealment,
quielly cut their poor victim to piece.. While this tragedy
was being enacted, another native, whose name was
" ttuhen," ran towanbi the mission•house, and Mrs. Gordon,
who ha,l been alanotd by the &•slash yells and laughter of
the savages, had run out, and was standing near an out-
house. She askol °Own what all that Dons war ►bout?
He laughed ■o-1 said, "Nothing: it's eddy the boys atnusing
thenoels ea." She said, "Where are the boys!' and turnol
round. t totem then, with the tomahawk, which he carried
eourealeil heliind !us back, struck her a blow below the
Amidst blade ; and, on her falling on a heap of grams, he
tautly cat the head off, and otherwise mutilated her io
miens Faris of the holly.

It is perfectly clear that Mr. Gosnox, the vic-
tim of this fanatic hatred and revenge, was a most
conscientious and devoted missionary. He not only
preached to the natives, but went about amongst
them doing good, and supplying their wants to the
utmost of his power. During the prevalence of the
disease holabourtd incessantly toarrestthecontagion
and relieve the suffering of its victims. Even
this, however, did not in the least disarm suspi-
cion. And it is quite certain that, with the
utmost prudence and circumspection, his position
amongst such • people was always one of great
peril. But we cannot help feeling that this coura-
geous and devoted missionary needlessly aggra-
vated the dangers of the situation by his ill-timed
denunciations and repeated warnings of Divine
' judgment against the alarmed and excited natives.
Had such threatenings and denunciations formed
an important part of the message he had to com-
municate, it would still have boon in the
highest degree impolitic to urge them at
such a moment. But so far from being an essen-
tial part of the Gospel message, they seriously
misrepresent the spirit and meaning of Christianity.
Outward prosperity and adversity, physical good
and evil, were no doubt, to some extent at least,
as Lord BAcIIN suggests in his celebrated essay,
the rewards and punishments of the Old Testa-
ment. But surely the New Testament nowhere
justifies the assertion that the rejection of the
Gospel message will be followed by definite tem-
poral loss or direct physical suffering. No doubt
inch a doctrine would be intelligible enough
to the idolatrous natives of Entmanga. Like all
savage, superstitious tribes, they implicitly believe
in witchcraft, incantations, and evil influence, in the
existence of • malign supernatural power, which
their priests can move at will for their own
purposes. Mr. Gosnox's threats of Divine judg-
ment would thus accord pei:ectly with something
already in their own minds. They would regard
him as a priest uttering hostile spells to move
the unseen Power over which he had control.
But however intelligible it might be, such
a doctrine would convey to the native mind a
most erroneous notion of the new religions truth
propounded for their acceptant*. To their dark
minds it would naturally appear simply as another
form of the paganism withwhich they were familiar.
In their view it would appeal to the same motives
of terror, and produce the same physical results.
Probably no amount of caution could have averted
the 'Mal result. But it would certoinly have been
better for all concerned, for Mr. Goabox, for the
Mission, and for the natives, had the Missionary's
dogmatic statements been more strictly confined to
that charity which is the essence of the Gospel, and
which in his life and death he so well illus-
trated.

IDt Court.

BALMORAL, Barr. 29.

The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by
the Prince's Alice and Prince Louis of Hew, left the Castle
yesterday morning at half-past 8 o'clock, and drove by OW. le-
ton to the Derry Bhiel, at which place pools, were in wait-
ing ; the royal party rode thence op Glen Derry by Loch
Dulochan and Bohm na Main to Loch Ayes. Iler Majesty
returned in the same manger, and reached the Castle at a
quarter past 8 in the evening.
Princess Louise rode out attended by Lady ChurehilL
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold, attended by Baron
Westerweller and Major Elphinstone, drove to Loch Bulig.
The Earl of Dalhousie arrived at the Ceatle on a visit to
bet Majesty.

Then was no addition to the royal dinner party.
sen. M.
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The Qum aad Plisee Ceased, Primers 11401114 a, Prin.
sees Alin. and Prince Loa/ of Hew. attesdad by the
Ladies sad Oasitiamse is Waiting, attended Dirios Servies
I the Pasish Church of Crathis.
The H.,. Mr. Muir officiated.

Comsat Rodeboale had an interview with the Duke
411 Nomads yesterday, at the (At:pia-office.
Mr Douala Daly had an interview with the Duke of
N•weastle.

Mr. Am ple& hed elm an iuterriew with his Grace
yesterday. at the Co!coal-office.
Despatches were wet yerter,:ar from the CalovistoMee
to the thwereere of the West fedi. foisted., British
Culumhia, sad to the Lord High Commissioner of the
Imam Wands.

Lady Edith and the 3fartinia of Hastings have
wired as CbuddiesHeeel, from St. Leonard&

The HI/n. diaries 111urray has returned to Cla.
ridge's Hotel. from So3t4xl.

The Hon. Mark and Lady Gertrude Rolle have
arrived at Clarldge's Hotel, from Stevenstope, Duero.
Bir Henry Balwer, English ainbssaador at Con-
stantinople, has just pawed through Paris op bin way to
EaglaiaL

A paragraph in the papers lately stated that
Bishop Bming.in • farewell address to the clergy of Glossae
ter. expressed his hope that they would get on better wit►
their new bishop than with him, and that be would do his
best to keep ia with and plowman parties. The reversed
prelate writes :—" It is r much due to the clergy of my
diocese as to myself that I shook' positively deny the accu-
racy of this statement. It has bees my constant wish and
endeavour to act wit► fairer' and consideration towards
all pities ; sad the peat kindness and hearty support
which I have ever moved from my clergy, accompanied at
the present time with strong exprorions of regret from all
parties at my leaving, fully justify me in the belief that my
endeavours have not been is vain. Nor do I doubt but
that my successor will fully deserve and obtain the earns
' confidence and cordial co-operation which I gratefully ac-
knowledge to have been ever manifested towards myself."
DEATH OF MIL Alain' IL SMITH.—Wu regret to
announce the death of this gentleman, brother of Mr. Albert
Smith, whom he has only survived some eighteen months.
Mr. Arthur Smith was well-known in literary and theatrical
rectos as one of the clearest mi oded and most practical men of
the day. Be had the management of his brother's entertain.
meet, sad all the burner arrangements of Mr. Charles
Dickens' Readings were entrusted to his care. He was one
of the Committee of the names Fisheries Primarration
Society, and the mother of • clever and witty little book
called "The Thames Angler " Mr. Smith was is his thirty-
seventh year.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELTARASPI.)
FRANCE.
PARIS, Ocr.
. .

The Mweiteur of this morning contains an im-
perial decree, dated Oct. 1, according to which the
ports of Marseilles, Bordeaux, Nantes, Rouen;
Havre, Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais, and Dunkirk,
and the custom-houses of Tourcoing, Roubaix,
Lille, Valenciennes, Mulhouse, and Lyons are,
dating from the Ist inst., open for the importation
of cotton and woollen yarns of every description,
either of English or Belgian manufacture.
By the sante decree the following articles of
English or Belgian origin or manufacture cannot be
imported into France, either by land or aea, except
through the custom-houses appointed.
The articles referred to are :—All goods paying
a duty of more than 20 francs per 100 kilo. ; also
coached', playing cards, chicory roasted or ground,
cutlery, .-.kin and leejlier work, articlea made of
horse or cow hair pure or mixed, chemicals, ordi-
nary soaps, drinking glasses and crystals white
and coloured, window glass, coloured glue
polished or engraved, watch and optical
glasses, and all other glass ware not mentioned
iu this category, sea-going vessels, hulls of sea-
going vessels, river craft, Alpaca, llama, and Vienna
w0.,1 awl camel's hair yarn.
The Meailear also announces that the Emperor
presided yesterday at a Council of Ministers at St.
Cloud.

The attack was to be renewed the following (lay.
Meanwhile the Federal' had been reinforced by
4,000 men, and other reinforeementft were rapidly
approaching. It was expected that Ceacral Price's
retreat would be cut off.

Six hundred Coniedenttes hare been routed, with
heavy loss, at Blue Mills Lauding (Missouri), by
1,500 Federal*.

COMMERCIAL DITELLIGk:NCE.

Cotton buoyant. Middling Upland, 214 to 22.
The breadstulT3 market is excited, and all quali-
ties have considerably advanced.
Provisions dull.
Stocks quiet. New York Central, 73i ; Illinois,
6r4 ; Erie, We.
Exchange on London, 109.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(moo on ow] COBRIMPOYDEIT.)

PARIS. TIYISDAT EVE-YURI.

On the eternal question touching the " Eternal
City," the Opinion Nationole this evening indulges
in some plain speaking, which is worthy of all com-
mendation. After declaring, with a fineness of
distinction the exact meaning of which I fail to ap-
'tedium', that he is neither the " enemy " nor the
"adversary " of the government, M. Gueroult, the
principal editor of the Opinion, sake how much
longer the provisional state of things in Italy, which
daily threatens intestine anarchy and foreign war, is
to endure, under the protection of the French flag ?
—" To prevent a oountry from organising itself,
and to perpetuate in it a state of revolution, is
neither wise nor moral."—" We do not wish to
harm Italy, and yet we do harm her. Once more,
we ask why ?" "If we are really for the
Pope, it must be admitted that we have
taken a very odd way of supporting him ;
but if we are really for Italy, a like observa-
tion occurs."—" The clerical party amuses us of
being insincere, and the liberal party taxes us with
cowardice ; there are whispers of our want of fore-
sight, of irresolution, of a drifting policy."—" We
desire nothing so much as to believe that all these
suppositious are false, calumnious, unjust ; but we
hear them, and are at a loss for an answer. We
foul humiliated that such things should be said of
french policy."—" This provisional state which
we deplore has already loot for France a portion
of Italy's gratitude ; and if it is prolonged it will
hurt our reputation in Europe, and at home
will alienate from the Emperor's govern-
ment thole sympathies which were gained by the
Italian war, the amnesty, and the decree of Nov.
24."—" Even assuming that the government policy
is at bottom excellent and irreproachable, it is at
all events so unfortunate as not to be understood ;
it is a policy which encourages adversaries and dis-
courages friends."—" It is but lost labour to try to
conciliate the clergy; they are as inimical as it is
possible to be, and nothing will rally them ; but the
clerical party ban no other strength than that which
it derives from the hesitation of the government.
Let us withdraw our troops from Rome—let the
temporal power fall—and within a fortnight the
clericals will cease to aflect surprise, while the true
friends of the Emperor's government—those who
do not look to a revolution, but to au existing con-
stitution, susceptible of improvement for the real-
isation of progress—will rejoice and feel re-
asaured."

The expectation which I expressed two or three
days since that the settlement at the Bourse would
be "disastrous," has been fully realised. The
panic to-day was worse than ever. Rents fell 50c.
for cash, and 40c. for account, closing at 68fr. 16e.
and Mfr. 10c. Mobilier fell 22fr. The Italian
Loan fell 35fr. The Orleans Railway felll7fr. 60c. ;
Southern, Mfr. ; Lyons, 121 r. 50c. ; Western,
Bfr. 75c. ; Northern, 6fr. 25c. ; and Eastern,
Ifr. 26c.

The marriage of the King of Portugal with the
Princess of Savoy is stated to be now quite settled.
Several provincial journals complain that, not-
withstanding the assertions of the Constitiaionnel,
the impertinent inquiries of the police into the
private history and affairs of journalists continue
to be made in a most offensive way. The Chrmaque
dr l'Ou est has been asked for the names of its Paris
correspondents, and whether it has any connexion
with the legitimist committee of Paris.
A "hero of Caatelfidardo"—one of Lamoriciere's
papal Zouavea—who has just keen tried at Oran
for rubbery and desertion, made some curious dis-
closures as to the system of recruiting at Marseilles
fur the Pope and his young friend Bombs 11. He
was enlisted under a false name as au Austrian
subject, and furnished with a false passport. De-
sertion from the Roman army is, he declared,
punished with bard Libonr for life and dogging,
but for which, be naively added, "everybody would
desert." When he got back to France, after his
service in a destitute condition, the Archbishop of
Aix gave him and his comrades Mr. ea:h.

A great volunteer sham fight and review took place
on Saturday last in the park of Sir John Maxwell, at Polk*,
between two and three miles from Glasgow. At the termi-
nation of the review Sir John Douglas delivered a short
address to the officers. He said, "I hope you will express
to your regiments how very much gratified we feel at the
appearance of the volunteers. Sir Hope Grant, who has
just left the field, said be had been much pleased with the
display. The only thing wanting is strict discipline. If
attention bo poid to that, the volunteers this day reviewed
will form as tine a body of troops as any in her Majesty's
army."

The Ami de la Religion announces that the Count
de Clisniberd is about to undertake a voyage to Casten.
tiaople.
The lialio of Twin announces that the difficulty
which had arisen between the cabinet of Madrid and the
Ijaliaa government respecting the archives of the old Nea-
politan amoebae.' has been terminated through the media-
tion of France. The archives are to he delivered op to the
latter, who will in her turn hand them over to Italy, Spain
being thus relieved from the dilemma in which she was
placed by her non•recognitioc of Italy.

The pamphlet of Father Passaglia against the
temporal power of the Pope is written in Latin. Its title
is " Pro aural Itediang ad Epiecopos Catholics, auctore
Preebytero Catholico." One of the paseages is as follows :
" Who can be so blind (says the reverend author) not to
see that the Italians an reduced to that deplorable ex.
tremity that there is not distant but imminent danger of
the greater number among them seceding either openly or
in their hearts from the communion of the church, and that
that affectionate mother runs the risk of losing those of
her children who are most dear to her. See what is now
taking place. The greater portion of the cler,•y stand out In
violent opposition to the greater portion of the laity;
several bishops have abandoned their flocks, and the pastor
of pastors himself—the successor of Peter, the august Vicar
of Christ upon earth—hurls censure and excommunieltion
on the Italian nation. One might think that of the double
faculty of punishing and forgiving the shepherd of souls
retains only the power to punish ; thus we see all the
priests busily engaged in blaming, in opposing, in ascending
that all in Italy ardently desire and embrace—all, both the
great and the lowly."

A letter from Berlin contains the following
The numerous councils of ministers held at Coblentz
prepare the ►iberal measures which the government will
adopt, after the coronation, against the reactionary party.
They are said to be • new batch of peers, the removal of
high reactionary functionaries, and also that of • large num-
ber of superior officers in consequence of the great
maw envies. Also the reorgaslatioo of the Berlin police,
the bulk of which ham relapsed into the old tormenting sod
brutal system, is said to be decided upon, and truly it is
high time."