The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-02 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MALLS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Auoverr 1.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Alhambra, Cept. Steward, with the above
trails, has arrived. She brings 18 passengers, 5
specie, value 1,487!. ; also 403 half chests
packagesii lemons, boxes grapes, 332 boxes apples, 100
boxes tomatoes, 11 packages onions, 4 quarter casks
wine, 196 boxes eggs, 12 packages sundries, and 12
live bullocks.

The schooner Tagus sailed from Lisbon for Liver-
pool on the 24th.
Her Majesty's ship Marlborough put into Ferrol
for fuel and water on the 27th.

The steamship Minto, from Liverpool, and the
steamer Dr. Bens, from Glasgow, arrived out on
the 23rd at Lisbon.

The Spanish steamer Neista went asbore during
• thick fog on the 20th, after discharging cargo
she aga►n floated, and put into Vigo. She was
bound from Barcelona to Liverpool.
The British brigantine Fanny, bound from Car-
diff to Lisbon with coals, was abandoned on ch.
24th, in a sinking state, 40 miles from Vigo. The
master and crew have arrived here by the
Alhambra.

In lat. 43.30 N. lon. 9.8 W., on the 29th, the
Alhambra exchanged signals with the Delta stand-
ing south-west. . ---.-

LISBON, Jett 27.
A meeting of British merchants has been held to
ooneider their position under the new law of
taxation.

Mr. James E. Harvey, the new American Minis-
ter, has had an audience of the King, and presented
big credentials.

The War budget has been discussed and carried
in the Cortes.

It is said that the King will visit the coming
exhibition at Oporto, for which great preparations
are making.
The Italians in Lisbon are about to have a
solemn high mass said for the repose of the soul of
Count Cavour. The ecclesiastical authorities have
put every impediment iu their way, and have alto-
gether refused to allow the ceremony to take place
in the Loreto, the church of the Roman legation.
Exchange on London, 53f Paris, 5.30 ; Ams-
terdam, 421 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 5.28 ; Routes,
481 ; Coupons, 481.

A letter from Hanover, 28th ultimo, says :
"Count de Mootalembert has been staying Doom days at
Hildesheiro, in the vicinity of this capitaL We are hi-
formed that the contains Dot seen either the bishop or the
clergy, and has only visited, in company with a learned his-
torian of that town, the convents and memorable places of
the diocese, to collect materials for a history of the reli-
gious orders of the west, on which he is now engaged. For
this purpose, the count is also going to Corvei, near Min-
den, to captors the rich treasures in the library of that old
isouvent."

Tae CAMP Of CHALON& —The visit of the Ring
of Amnia to the (tamp of Mikes is now looked on as certain.
The time designated for his Majesty's corniug is the Stth
August, the Emperor of the French arriving, as already
stated, some days before It is also thought by no means
improbable that the King will pay • visit to the Free&
capital. The King of Sweden is also expected in Paris in
the mune of the seam

BrioLe. Roittriams. —The En/vino/wire
Goseffe of Stettin contains the following :—"The extensive
meadows on the banks of the Oder naturally induced many
fanners to keep bees ; but these wise insects seem to
prefer obtaining their honey with as little labour as
possible, and have for years past been in the habit of fre-
quenting two sugar refineries at no great distance. Coder
such favourable eirenuManess, the yield of honey was very
raad the fanners cease at last to keep ten or even twenty
introore hives than formerly. The sugar-refiners, however,
after beg finding the bass very troublesome, made the
discovery that they were not only annoying bat rather
expensive visitors, and accordingly adopted means to de-
stroy them. This was effected by suddenly closing all the
doors and shutters, and then opening one small window,
to which the bees immediately flew sad were killed in
thousands by • jet of boiling water. The deed bees were
afterwards thrown into the boilers to extract the sugar
they had appropriated. It has been estimated that as
many as II millions have been thus destroyed in • year,
and that about 1,300 fr. worth of suer has been extracted
from them. It is a remarkable fact that the bees would
sever touch beet-root sugar till refised, owing to the pun-
gent smell of the plant, Init cane sugar was equally aceept-
able to them whether refined or not"