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garded in itself, is too severe. It is almost
equally impoolible, however, not to perceive that
'it is relatively diapropertioned to the penalties
awarded by the law to adage of mercantile offence*,
certainly more mischievous to the community, and
quite em certainly not implying a greater moral
turpitude in the offender. Compare the offence of
BRIGHT, to the offence* of CAMERON, Or IIUIirtIREV
BROWS, or &means+. la the mischief done to the
individual owner of the forged stock to be compared
in its extent to that done to the thousands and tens of
thousands of duped shareholders and defrauded de-
positors? And yet, until the Fraudulent Trustees
Aet of last motion was pealed, the wisdom of the
English law left the more culpable, because more
asischievoas, of the two claims of offences beyond the
pale of criminal jurisprudence, and even now only
awards a maximum of three years penal servitude
, far ideates lem venial than that which, in BRIGIIVE
ERN, it punishes with ten.

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WOE WATS& AT LONDON RAMO&

ZONDOII4 FRIDAY, DECEIflia 18.

busman jut sow an Alba ail lands or the
ssnodn a esed by the seamed spirit of
= is
• —the enslaving puns >kbiatiodai
asibisely rich. It is cal, the new min= urn
that prominently names public ablation, jut en
in periods of epithetic isionene it is the deaths only
that are recorded by tie Registrar-General. But

short of absolute ruin mai positive transgression of
law, than suite a out IN= 01 so fferi og, of tempta-
tion, and, it may be weed• of guilt, the knowledge
of which will mini* mews extend beyond the
homes it has doeolded mei the hearts it has seared.
Throughout Ensiond. thmegboet the world, how
many victims of the all but universal money-
worship are sow mein in secret bitterness
the hose idolatry to w►ieh they have bowed
down. This Juggernaut of oats maws
oat wet lives than is at all creditable to
oar Quietists ciedisatisto. In some it only kill.
heart aad hope, in other, it produces flat despair,
madness, and seltssorder, varying through all
degrees of horror op to that frightful Sntrutu
tragedy at Croydoo, which is aa yet ths as plus ultra
of ruus-produced crime. These sudden parelyeals
of guilt startle and appal ; but it is the life-ion
wear sad tear of spirit, the stealthy sapping of
principle, the gradual habituation to evil : this it is
which saddens.
Among the recent

of this latter

form of the speculation malady—the low faces
stage of the disease•—we know of wee awe outlaw
choly than the ease of It CYST SMITH 3120/1?, the
late l'resident of the Hull Flax Mill Crispany,l
who wee on Tuesday last convicted and sentenced to
ten yews penal servitude for the crime of forgery.
From all the internal evidence of the case, this
seemed to have been originally a men of probity and
waselence ; but he was led in 1845 into a vortex
of railway speculations, the losses arising from which
his whole after life was miserably spent, per Jul et
esefile, in straggling to retrieve. In 1840 he was
takes into partnership by his uncle, Mr. JOHN
TATLOI, a large corn merchant, of Hall. Mr.
TAYLOR went into railways, and induced the nephew
to fellow his example. The result was that the latter
realised alas of some 10,00 W. In order to make
up this' low, BLIGHT embarked with carious Elect.
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in fresh schemes of speculation. He has told his
own story, in a document which wee produced at
the trial, with all the impressiveness of sincerity
and suffering. In this angular paper, drawn up by
him in 1831, under the impression that he should
not outlive the year, he gives the following striking
picture of • speculative career Circumstances
" hare compelled me to do that which I would not
"do again. Mr. iIrD3O:I, three or four years ago,
4 knowing our hews by rails, kindly offered hie
• matietance to retrieve as somewhat. I went to
London, and when there received Mr. T tYLOR'S
sanction to follow the recommendations of Mr.
a IiCDSON. I did so ; but I went beyond them,
"so infatuated was I with his judgment and
" SO desirous to retrieve Mr. TAYLOR'S position.
*a dying man, I declare my own advantages I
"never thought of; but when Mr. HODSON recom-
mended 100 shares, I took 200 through other
" channels, and then • reverse setting in, I was worse
"and worse. I then struggled on. One Midland
"and some other shares I was obliged to pawn, and
"then sell to meet engagements; and so I agonised
" on—aye, agonised is Me word day arid night
" has ken icy misery. Then the corn conjuncture
came; I went into it, made money, and should have
"kept it, but health felled me, and I took nerve to
" may, ' Sell everything; as I had always aimed at
"doing," Sic.

" Agonised on," aye, that ie the word. How many
are there in this rust City—bow many even of
those who now read these linen—who will feel in
their inmost hearts that no weaker words will ade•
quately convey a true statement of their everyday
emetaisen. It was in July, 1833, about a year before
this memorandeun was drawn op, that BRIGHT
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committed the forgery of which he has been just
convicted. There were then 48 Newcastle and Ber-
wick Er tension sham' standing in the name of
Ito BUT JOHN TA I LOIL (the eon of old TAT.
t on% at that time a clerk in the House.
These shares BatonT sold secretly, without Ids
partner's authority, forging the name of ROBERT
Joan T T ton to the transfer deed. Of the 1,0001.
which wen the peon& of the sale, 6001. we

applied to pay loans on a corn speeslation. and lb*
same mount wan wink in a cotton speculation.
Baton? made so annate of the sale in the partner-
ship books, and continued to pay the divideuda to
young TAT Los in bank poet bills notead of warrant&
Things west on thus till the death of the slew
?Acton in wben investigation took plan*, sad,
of emu, discovery.
Minors oaletisatiated against the prisoner wu un-

THE HEAVY INDIA MAIL.

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THE WEST INDIA AND
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01•14ei1y 400 dlargry. Far his own purposes and
with • view to the 4001146 et Ids own speculations, be
bad drralaisatly and anotirsr We same is order to
sot Mid d ateary *bilk did sot belong to Ida.
la dis pressat lam meted mercantile morality, it is
impseibie isr the law to paw over wittiest sigma
pwsiehasent sash an offence as this. The eleee to
0104411 HOIST SWIM BaIGRT belongs is precisely
the dais spa which the deterrent efficacy of poi-
!debated is mut operative. A sentence of ten yews'
penal serfdom ameamet the vilest refuse of society is
to a sea la sash a position a terrible sentence. too
desirable. however, is it to keep up at any price the
strict integrity of neresntile deslinp, that
it is impowible to say the swam, ro-

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1857.

The Nemesia has arrived with the heavy portion
of the India and China mails. Her dates are—
Alexandria, December 3; Malta, 9; Gibraltar, 13.
Amongst her cargo arc 1,280 bales of silk, and
specie to the value of 11,3391. sterling. The
Nemesis ham brought home fifty-six passengers,
amongst them are Rajah Sir James Brooke, Colonel
Hark Hely, and fourteen children.
The Nemesis spoke the Australian steamer blot
on the 15th inst.

Tier Majesty's ships Royal Albert, Ilibemia, Con-
queror, Princess Royal, Centurion, Vulture, Despe-
rate, Vigilant, Coquette, Harpy, and Caradoe, were
at Malta. The troop steamer Sultan was to leave
Alexandria on the 6th instant.

TUB ENGLISH PRISONERS AT SALERNO.

The Parana has arrived with the West India and
Pectin mails. Her dates are :—Jamaica, Nov. 27 ;
Trinidad, 23; St. Thomas, Dee. I. She brings
home fifty-three passengers. Amongst her cargo is
specie to the value of 688,181 dole., of which
128,131 dole. are in silver, and the rest in gold.

Her Majesty's ship Imaura was at Jamaica. The
Leopold was to leave Jamaica for Colon. The Tartar
was at St. Domingo. The Atalanta was at Demerara,
and the Brunswick was at Colon. The Monarch

Mr. Watt, of Namossea, the father of one of the
British engineers confined in the dungeons of
Naples, has received the following letter from the
chaplain to the British embassy at that place:
Naples, Dec. 9.
flip —t received your letter on Monday, the 7th, and,
bowing how nucleus your son wee to hear f all his dear
miatives at home, I took the very first opportunity (i.e. yew-
teeday) of going down to Salerno to show it to him ; though
It was •Jars, or holiday, and I was in danger of going for
nothing, as all officials are generally absent from home on
those days. I found that the Procurator-General was from
how, but, after sending for him in various directions, I
gains& admittance to the prison. The delay, however, was
On cause of my being longer with the prieeners, as it made
me too late for the afternoon train, and so I stayed for the
intoing one, and spent considerable time in conversation
with them. Your eon seemed better in health than he was
bee:ire—though he Made no complaints to me then—but he
sow looks stronger, with more colour, and more cheerful.
This, I suppose, arises from their having been re-
mend Into a larger room, where they can take enr-
olee, sad have the company of all their fellow-prisoners.
Indeed, they all seemed quite cheerful, and conversed freely
with the °Soar who accompanied me as well as with myself.
Your son and his companion Parks, assured me that they
acted by my counsel, and oenatantly prayed to God to sup-
port and relieve them, and reed their Bible every day ; they
deo returned fifteen religious tracts I had lent them, and
desired to have some more. Be I really tenet that their
deletion may, with Ged's pesos, be turned to good account,
and that they will for the hews be more sincere and ear.
nest died*, of Christ than they have hitherto been, and
be able to my with the holy psalmist, Blamed is the man
0 Lord, whom thou chastened; before I was afflicted I
wont wrong, but now I bare kept thy statuteiL" I paid
them a second visit the week lifter I wrote last (Thursday,
26th ult.), and found they hod been moved two days to the
larger apartment. You perhaps have seen In the news.
ppm • report that one of the prisoner. had attempted
diddle. I heard this after I returned from my first visit
to them; and therefore, on my second visit, I thought it
right to question them about it. Your son contened that
he had done so, and, n fur as I could learn, ho was induced
to make the attempt by a melancholy feding of darn-
dewy, which led to imagine that was against him.
His companion told me it non from misunderstanding what
wee maul about him by his compenioos through his not un-
derstanding the Italian hinging° thoroughly. On the 26th of
November I talked very earnestly and serenely to him upon
the subject, and he enured me he would never attempt any-
thing of the kind again, and I have good reason to hope he
seta it In in true light, and will keep hie promise. I talked
to him spin about it yesterday, and he said cheerfully that
there was no danger of such a thing again. He is evidently
of a silent and nervous disposition. I suppose they did
not like to confess this sad thing, and so said nothing about
It on my first visit. Being permitted by the King of
Naples to visit them as a minister of religion, when nobody
else was allowed to see them, I did not eroe.coquestion them
about anything, as it would have been dishonourable to act
In any way as • spy. I merely desired them to tell me scy-
thing they wished voluntarily ; and their statements I gave
you the general summary of in my last letter. Berries, my
object was chitty religious, to lead them to take their aflios
tion patiently, and bear up courageously, ha dependence
spin God's help and protection; whereas, it I bed spent my
visits in questioning them about freemen, they would
hese fancied theniaelvee perhaps, worse treated than they
have been, sad been irritated and more net down in spirit,
instead of being calmed or cheered. I therefore, I repeat,
only beard and have written to you what they told me of
their own accord. Yesterday your son laid he was very
much comforted by your letter, and then of his friends,
which I let him read for himself. He begged um earnestly
is write Creed , and send von all his love, and tell you he
wee well and . I. obtained leave fur him to writs
and send a letter by me, and I promised to wait In the town
boon for him to send UM me if he chopo to write.

was at Valparaiso and was about to leave for Callao.
The Nereus was at Valparaiso. The Alarm and
Cockatrice were at Islay, watching a Peruvian [CVO-
latiomary frigate. The Retribution and the Naiad
were at Callao. The Magician was at Penang, re-
pairing ; she had been ashore.
The Royal Mail steamer Conway was disabled.

From Jamaica we learn that Governor Darling
was popular. Much sympathy wu felt there for the
sufferers in India.

The monetary distress in the United States has
seriously affected Jamaica. The provision market
was scantily supplied ■t Kingston. The banks
had refused all discount transactions. The north
side of the island was suffering from drought.
At the Windward Islands the young crop is
going on well. The money panic in New York has
acted on the provision markets.
At Santa Cruz the yellow fever is raging fear•
fully. _ . .

The cholera is raging at llonduras and the ad-
joining republic.

did not get any letter from . him? and indeed he gore me to
understand that he could not write. Pother be did not like
writing with so many in the room, as he is rather shy and
nervous. As I haverm much to occupy my time and
thoughts se a minister, and so cannot go thoroughl into the
gelation, I hare made little inquiry about the legal part of
your son's ore, or about the justice of the wren, politically
and taternationsily. It was not my business, and 1 should
do no good by interfering in it ; but for your sake. I asked
the Procurator-Crneral yesterday how their trial wee going
oa, and he told me it was proceeding ea quickly r pop-
debts. The forms of justice are slow in this country, hatI
think the utmost will be done for them, as the British
government have exerted theorems very much on the
subject, and her Mmery's acting-ward at Boyles went
down to Salerno last week and the week before. I cannot
think now of anything more to tell you, but I will always
write when I have any particular inniation for you, end
let your ar have your rases.
I bar written In may great he ate, and bar not time to
look over my kart, in i wish to save the post to-day,
earldom I cannot send my letter before Saturday; but
bops I have weir= in ea to he understood by you.
To faithfully, O. PCOII, Chaplain.

A large remittance has left Mexico for England,
by way of Acapulco.
Nicaragua is still in an unsettled state; war has
bees declared by Nicaragua against Costa Rica.
The Panama Railway Company have ordered all
payments to be made to them in American currency,
which has given much dissatisfaction.
At Chili the project of a foreign loan of 7,000,000
dollars has been approved of. The money market
is still unfavourable.

At Islay the revolution wu still masuppressed.
At Lima the National Convention has been dim-
paned at the point of the bayonet.
At California the news of the loos of the Central
America causal a total suspension of business for
two days.

THE UNITED STATES.

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NEW YORK, Dsc. 1.
The Thirty-fifth Congress of the United States
_wembles next Monday, in Washington. The Pre-
sident will have a nominal party majority of 23 in
the House of Representatives, and 14 in the Senate.
These majorities will enable him to carry through
any measure which does not divide his party. Bat
the probabilities of dissension and disagreement are
growing stronger every day. There is not likely to
be any unusual delay in the organisation of the
house, as was witnessed two years ago. Then
parties were so evenly balanced that the struggle
for the speakership listed 66 days, and consequently
the business of Congress was for the same period
suspended. Now, however, the Democrats can elect
their officers on the first ballot, and most likely the
President's message will be sent to both houses
before three o'clock on Monday. The character
of the message is already well-known in certain
quarters. To-day it is being read to the cabinet,
to-morrow it is put into the hands of the printers,
and the day after it will be despatched in sealed
packages to all the chief cities of the Union, to be
opened and delivered to the newspaper press as soon
as the Washington telegraph announces that it is
being read to Congress. All one late presidential
merges are long and verbal* productions. This
one will be prolix from neeeseity. The whole ques-
tion of finance will be thoroughly discussed, and
doubtless with great clearness and ability. There
are abundant materials for disquisition in currency,
trade, tariffs, the wide-spread monetary revolution
throughout the world—Utah and the rebellion of the
Mormons—the admission of Minnesota as a new
state into the union—the unsettled state of the ter-
ritory of Kansas, and the affairs of Central America
—these are but a portion of the items which are
touched upon in the President's menage. We shall
not be surprised, therefore, if this should tarn out to
be one of the longest messages we have ever had.

Cram( oca OW

GENERAL litiyEI29CIES DESPATCH

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