The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PERTH, J. 17.

At the general amembly of the representatives
of this city, held to-day, M. Desk opposed the im-
mediate assumption of the judicial power by the
Hungarians. He said, "At this moment we have
only to choose between Austrian laws and anarchy."
The proposition of M. Desk to preserve the
Austrian laws until the Jude' Curie shall have
ordered the transfer of the offices of justice was
agreed to by the assembly.

MONTENEGRO.
CATTARO, JAN. 17.
No attack by Montenegrins on the town of Spuz
has really taken place.
An attack was intended, and was only prevented
by the representations made to the Montenegrins
by the Austrian, French, and Russian consuls.
The Prince of Montenegro withdraws his troops
from the Turkish frontiers, expecting the satisfac-
tion promised to him by the Porte.

The government of Victor Emmanuel has de-
termined to issue a new bronze coinage, which is to be
struck in Milan. The number of coins required is far
greater than the amount of our own coinage of bronze now
executing. Messrs. Ralph Heaton and Sons, of the Mint.
Birmingham, have obtained the contract, and haul to pro-
duce 732,000 pieces per day, commencing on the lot of
April, NW..
A letter from Rome of the 12th. in the mule,
says :—" General de Cutrotano leaves this evening for
Paris, on a mission from Francis
A letter from Padua of the Etb, in the Opirtione
of Turin, mentions the death of one Antonio Nicolai, eget
23, in the prison of Padua. He is stated to have been
one of the 79 prisoners whom the Duke of Modena took
away with him on his flight from his states. Of them
Nicolai is the third that has died, and the survivors are
still kept in prison.
. . . .

A dramatic story about the unfortunate loves of
a French corporal and a Mollie. Denise was lately pub-
lished in the legal journals of Francs. A restaurateur of
AsniZrea bearing the curiously appropriate name of Cease.
grain, now writes to the papers to say that if the military
authorities and the rel►tions of the parties will combine to
viable the loves to marry. he will supply a wedding dionrr
gratis. This is an amusini, instance of the advettiiing
genius of French tradesmen.
The Lerma Herald of the 10th says :—" Two
days ago a son—the seventh—was born to his Majesty the
Sultan. Immediately after the auspicious event the palace
band played a 11111eCOM1011 of lively festal aim in the ante-
court of the barrio in hcno• r tf this addition to the imperial
family."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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EVENING.
The legitimist and papal journals—Gazette de
France, Union, Ami de /a Religion, and Mande—
loudly express their disappointment at the witL-
drawal of the French fleet from Gaeta, and, not-
withstanding all their hectoring about the valour
and determination of Francis H. and the strength

of his fortifications, they evidently look upon his
cause as lost, and are prepared to fix the responsi-
bility of his fall upon his late " best friend," Na-
poleon 111. They affect to be most especially
shocked at the blunt avowal of the Afoniteur that
the only object of the obstructive intervention was
to "cover the retreat" of the " unfortunate "
King, thereby showing that the French Emperor
had a settled opinion from the very first as to his
chances of success. The Gazette de Prance " blushes"
to hear the unoontradicted assertion that remon-
strances by the English government have had some-
thing to do with the recall of Admiral de Tinan's
fleet.

The Prase, though having the explanatory
paragraph in this day's Monastic before its eyes,
writes is the following doubtful and curiously
cautious manner about the new system of recruiting
recently announced by the Monitear de rAr„,se

The question is here and there discussed whether this
new combination, which, in point of fact, calls the whole
contingent into active service, is more warlike than pacific.
It would be difficult for us to give our readers any detailed
explanation on this point. All that we can now say is
that the tand,Thr system, praiseworthy in an eeooomical
point of view, is not necessarily more menacing in France
than on the other side of the Rhine.

The Havre journals speak of a new order for
200 gunboats having been given to private
builders.

Mgr. Saoconi, the Pope's nuncio, who some time
since left Paris under circumstances which were
thought almost to imply a diplomatic rupture, is
now, they say, coming back. The Pays gives it as
positive that he will be at hia post on January 25 ;
but the Pcdrie, less affirmative, says "it appears
to be thought that he will quit Rome" about that
time.

Both the above journals have received the news
that the electoral circular of the Sardinian cabinet
appends to its pacific programme a solemn promise
to use every effort to obtain a favourable solution
of the questions of Rome and Venice by diplomatic
negotiation.
The French papers state that M. Hall, the
Danish minister of foreign affairs, has sent three
identical notes to the representatives of Denmark
at Paris, London, and St. Petersburg, with a view
to call the attention of the three great powers, par-
ties to the protocol of London, to the direct threats
contained in the recent proclamations and speeches
of the new King of Prussia. I am disposed to
think that this is the only foundation for the news
that France, England, and Russia had actually
espoused the cause of Denmark against Germany in
the Schleswig-Holstein question.
The Bourse was heavy, but a little firmer at the
close than during the greater part of the day. The
Rente fell sc. both for cash and account, closing at
67fr. 20c. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. Railways were
a shade better. The Louis Napoleon Docks were
quoted to-day for the first time under their new
name of " Magasins Generaux." Eight old shares
go to form a new one.

The 3fr. per 100 kilogrammes differential duty
upon sugars abolished yesterday was the last yes.
tige of the protective colonial system. This duty
had been found by experience to be a complete
failure, even in a protectionist point of view.
Nevertheless, the Union pathetically exclaims,
" What will now become of the colonies l "

THE INUNDATIONS IN HOLLAND.

(IRON .1 CORRIESPOND/C(7.)

ROTrERDA-11, JAx. 15.

If the diitrehr of the homeless poor in London
is great at this inclement season, that of the inhabitants of
the district through which the river Waal wends its course
to join the Mame is frightful to an extreme. In the be-
ginning of January it was observed that the vast accumu-
lations of snow in this district was musing the rise of the
river to a dangerous extent. With anxiety and dread the
inhabitants' watched the daily increase of the invading
waters, now laden with immense masses of ice, and strenu-
ously exerted themselves to strengthen the resistance
offered by those artificial beeriers by which alone Holland
is preserved from total submersion. But still the flood rose,
and the ice.masses formed themselves, as it were, into huge
battering-rams, pressing with their irresistible strength
against the dikes and dams. The sound of the church
bell, clear and ominous in the frosty air, kept telling
the sad tale of imminent danger, and warning all who
could labour to aid in tho good cause and those who
could not to prepare for the worst. Higher and higher rose
the waters, and soon the surface of the ponderous shifting
ice-man stood within half an inch of the dike-level. Good
God ! should it rise that half-inch higher, their cottages,
their cattle, their provisions, their all would become a prey
to the unsparing havoc! Then rose to heaven many a
prayer for help—for mercy ! At last a bulging out in the
dike directed the anxious gaze of all to one spot—for the
waters were pressing bard upon it. With the strength and
energy of despair they tried to stay the progress of the
flood as it sought egress from its narrow channel into their
fields and dwellings. Xerxes as well tried to bind the ocean
in chains. Suddenly the dike yielded, and the
waters poured through—the ice-masses end the flood rose
above it, and swept on in their terrific course,
submerging fields, haws, and cottages, drowning the cattle,
destrm Mg all. The aged and the sick, the women and
children, sought a refuge in their attics, where, benumbed
with cold, without bedding, elothes, fire, or provisions, they
had to pass days of inexpressible terror—of horrible starva-
tion. For a long time it was impossible to approach them,
mid it is feared many 44 cottage has been swept away
in the flood, and its inhabitants frozen to death on the
lee-elusive. One family of seven persons was roamed from
the attic in which they hail eought shelter, so thoroughly
exhausted by cold and hunger that they could not even
answer the questions of their deliverers. A poor mother,
with her infant, to which she Lad given premature birth,
was lying in bed in the bleak attic of her homely dwelling,
while her husband, from as aperture in the roof, sought,
by cries and signals, to attract the attention of
a few brave men, who at the imminent risk of their
lives were endeavouriog to make their way between the
ice-blocks in order to rescue some of their perishing fellow-
creatures from destruction. They went to the poor fellow's
help, descended into the attic through the aperture in the
roof, through which they returned, bringing with them the
mother and her babe. It With time, for the waters had
already risen to within two inches of her bed.
The distress and alarm of these districts ern great, for the
evil may have only commenced. Should a sudden thaw
set in, or the wind blow fiercely from the north-wear, God
knows what additional misery and destruction will
ensue. Subscriptions are pouring in from liberal hands
for the relief of the suffering thousands, cast by this
calamity in penury on the world. But it will
require the expeuiliture of barge sums to provide for even
their more pressing necessities. Even as I write, fresh in-
telligence arrives from the inundated districts detailing
additional scenes of wretchedness—people dying from
hunger and cold ; their houses cut away by the ice, as cora
is mown down by the harvester's scythe : a church which
had stool hundreds of years swept down, as • puff of wind
sweeps down a house of cards ; and the prospect is even yet
mare fearful. IfolLsiel has often suffered much from inun-
duties* but never within the ...eirezy of living man has en
inundation beeu ivevainatied eith as reach dietress eau sk•
struction —with so much heartrending grief and drsapar.

464NDONMZNT OP TH. SHIP HIACCLTS.

Yesterday Captain Halsted, the secretary of
Lloyd's, received a despatch from the Board of Trade, an-
sauteing the absadonment of the British ship Hercules:

" British Consulate, New York, Dec. 31st, 1800.
"Sir,-1 have the honour to acquaint you, for the infor-
mation of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade, of the wreck and abandonment at sea, on the 18th
inst., of the barque Hercules, of London, Captain Thome
Hoehn' s, meter, bound from Quebec to London, with a
cargo of timber and deals. The master and crew were res-
cued and taken from the wreck by the ship America. of
New York, Captain John E. Satter, master, bound from
Liverpool to this port, and were landed here and pitued in
my custody this
" The Herculesa=rlrom Quebec. on November 15, and
after a succession of heavy gales became completely water-
logged on December 10, the crew retreating to the
top, where they had secured some provisions for two or
three days. Notwithstanding the decks were completely
swept, boats and spars carried away, and the deck
burst up, the master succeeded in drifting the ship with
a chain table, and made sail standing to the eastward, until
the 18th, when the American was fallen in with. The greater
part of the Hercules crew insisted on abandoning the ship,
notwithstanding the entreaties of the captain, who offered
them rewards to stand by her, but they would not. From
the reports of Captain Santa, as well as of Captain Hoskins,
I consider the men behaved in • cowardly, tf no: is a mu-
tinous manner, sad I have refused to subsist theta at the
publi expense.—l have, fee.,
(Signed) " E. M. ARCHIPALD A2ting-Consul."
The Hercules was insured at Lloyd's.

Among coming entertainers, M. Musard,
Paris, is announced to hold promenade concerto in St.
James's Hall.

The first conversazione of the Musical Society
will take place on the TM, at St. James's Hall.

On making up the accounts of the last Norwich
Festival, it appears that a surplus of 916/. is the result.

The new opera house in Paris is to be designed
in competition, open to all the world. _ _

The first meeting for the season of the members
of the Royal Institution took place yesterday evening, on
which occasion Professor Tyndall delivered a lecture " On
the Action of Gases and Vapours on Radiant Heat."

M. Menlet, since the foundation of University
College, London, Professor of the French language and
Literature, and well known ea the author of many educe.
tional works, has resigned the put he ham held for ho many
years with honour to himself and benefit to the college.
The council expressed, at their session on Saturday last,
their extreme regret at losing his services.

Mr. Hawkins is now retiring from the keeper-
ship of antiquities at the British Museum. Mr. Birch, u
senior offloer, will succeed him ; but great changes (says
the AtAenauss) in the administration of this department
are expected.

Mr. C. T. Newton, who left the British Museum
to made in the Levant, and whose researches at Nitylese,
°Woe, and kialicarnaams are so well known, has quitted
the Comdata at Rome, sad returned to settle in Loodot.

Mr. Holman Hunt's picture " The Finding of
Oar Reviver in the Temple," lam been removed from the
German Gallery for a period of about two months, in order
that it may be placed in the hand, of the engraver ; ►t the
expiration of that term it will be again exhibited.

"These are early days," says the /thistrfik./
Times, "to speak of the next Exhibition, but, from all
sides, we bear news that promises an excellent picture show.
Mr. Hook bas been in Cornwall and has three pictures in
hand, of which those wko have seen them speak in the
highest terms. More of these ►non ; safficient for the pre.
sent to say that the subject of the principal picture is 'The
Departure of the Cornwall Smacks for the North Sea Fish-
ing.' Mr. E. H. Ward has shaken off the apathy which
seemed to beset him, and is at work on a picture which will
not only restore him to his former position in the eyes of
the public, but will greatly increase his fame. Mr. Phillips
is away in Spain, and Mr. O'Neil is going, it is said, to
Australia in no emigrant ship, for the purpose of studying
character on board. But the greatest news of all is that
Mr. David Roberts, instead of dying away,as is his wont, to
Spain, or Italy, or the Holy Land, has been spending the
autumn in London, and employing bin time in painting our
giant metropolis as seen from the river. London from the
Thames (at least, modern London) has never been painted.
and Mr. Roberts is said to be as delighted with his subject
as there is no doubt the public will be withl his work."
The first liampatead conversazione was held on
Thursday. Sketches:were exhibited by Messrs. C. Has&
ke. ; paintings from the hands of both the Mein".
Chalon, T. Feed. Nicol, and others; and many drawings
contributed to the Old Sketching Club by Messrs.
Chalon, Stanfield, Roberta, Ac.

Mr. Frith bas undertaken a commission to
point • picture representing the departure of a railway
train - to contain an immense number of figures and inci-
dents ; this is to be upwards of ten feet long. The price
to be paid for it is unprecedented.
Mr. A. Solomon (says the A thsnrrusi) has
brought, as fruits of his tour in the Pyrenees, six pictures—
one representing some English artists sketching the peasant
girls of a place visited by the painter ; next, the visit of a
Sister of Mercy to an old woman who is spinning; another,
showing a girl carrying • large sheaf of box-tree boughs on
her head fur fuel ; • fourth represents a girl with a distaff.
Two others are of Iles importance. All have been painted
from nature. Mr. Simeon Solomon is eagaged on a picture
of Ruth and Naomi.

It baa been stated that various objects found by
M. Lenormant in Greece and Syria had been *lint to the
Louvre. Among them is a marble bust of a priest of
Eleusis, wearing the hair in sacerdotal fashion—such as is
described in books, but never before seen represented in a
work of art ; se% end bas-reliefs and inscriptions ; some Pital.
Indian articles of jewellery; and lastly, the arms of a war-
rior of the hordes of Mark, which were found in an exca-
vation at Eleusi%. The }Wile dee Beaux Arts has also re-
ceived from M. Lenormant sixteen large boars containing
model.' of ancient sculpture, and among them one of the
principal fronts of the eastern frieze of the Temple of
Theaeus, representing the expulsion of the Pallantides from
Attica.

A memorial, very respevtably signed, has been
(meanie,' from this town to the Duke of Newcastle fear
the Leieratv Afrecury) as colonial minister, on behalf of
Anderson. the fugitive slave, who has been recently tried
be/on-the Canadian Court of Queen's Beuch, and sentenced
by that court to be given up to the Southern slaveholders,
praying the duke to give immediate instructions to the
Canadian authorities not to surrender him without an order
from her Majesty's government.

. _
DEATH Or TELE DEAN OF EX ETER.—The Very
Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe, M.A., Dian of Exeter, died at hie
residence, it. the Close, Exeter, on Thursday morning, about
7 o'clock.

DEATH Or MRS, STANLEY.—Mtn. Stanley died
of acute bronchitis on Thursday morning at l o'clock:, to
the and of her daughter, Miss Emma Stanley, who had
been throughout unremitting in her attention. Mrs Stan-
ley via. in her eisty-ninth year. Ac an actress she en-
joyed for a considerable psnod the favodr of the public,
and fur many years remained a member of the Haymarket
company, where btu) held an important position as
the representative of matronly eliart,tent in tragedy
and comedy. Mrs. Stanley was the granddaughter
of John West Dudley Diggs, a member of the
noble Lunar of De La Warr. Her maiden name was
Fleming, and in her early life she gained a prominest statics
on the boards by her fine Her
appearance, as well se
by her histrionic talent. Her husband, Mr. George Stan-
ley, has been dead eene year,. He wee an excellent actor,
and at one time divided public favour with Mr. William
Murray, of Edinburgh. Mies Emma Stanley, since Monday,
had been compelled to suspend her representation of "The
Seven Ages of 'Vomit," at the Egyptian Hall. The im-
portant all that her mother, Mrs. Stanley. tendered is
facilitating the rapid changes of costume dulling the enter
tainment, constituted her, though unseen, a moat indis-
pensable adfunet.—Ere.
AN OLD AsTRIAN IN THE WOKKHOVIE.-111 the
Blackburn aorkhouse are 82 inmates whew, united ages
amount to years, or an average age of 75 years, and
13 dale. Tin oldest female, born iu 1772, is named Miss
Ann Slaiuley, who, for upwards of 50 years. delighted the
busy thousands a‘sembled at the country fain, else having
bean en actress at Mr. Wild's Travelling Theatre during
that king period. The old lady is comfortably homed mad
well taken ears of.

ST. PHIL' Ps, BrrliltAlsOßEEN. —For several
vesirs the poor of thin district parish and the children of all
the schools have been entertained by the incumbent, as moo
after Christmas Day as possible, with the fare which custom
has consecrated to the season. On Tuesday evening last the
children of all the schools, national, hsga.eilolay, Sunday,
and evening Khoo); after plummiko and tea, and Port'
singing and speeches, received prizes (which had been sus-
pended all the evening from Christmas trees before them)
according to their merit*, and when, no prize had been
merited each had a little presents ()s the evening of New
Year's Day 503 of the destitute poor sat down to a dinner of
beef and plunipodding, with the etceteras, in the new
schools In Oub-row. After the dinner severs! speeches
were delivered on I.llbi cts 1.1 m nort,-1 with the none stir life
and daily duties of the hearers.