The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 21.
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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Tagus, Captain Ball. with the above mails, arrived this
afternoon. She brings 10 passengers, 7 packages sFecie,
value 2,200/. ; also 2.2 half chests oranges, 22 boxes pome-
granates, 206 boxes eggs, 18 live oxen, and 24 packages
sundries.

On the 20th the Tagus spoke the steamship Iberia and
the Peninsular and Oriental Company's. steamship Ceylon.
The Itoyal flail Company's steamer 511uplalena, with the
outward mails of the 9th, arrived at Lisbon on the 14th,
and sailed for the Brazils at 8 a.m. on the 15th inst.

The despatch gunboat Segres railed from Lisbon on the
17th for Tangiers, with presents forth. Emperor of Morocco
from the King of Portugal.

The war ;tenser lillendilla had sailed for St. Antonio (a
province of Algarves) for troops.

LISBON, OCT. 17.
The Kin has returned from his tour in the provinces to
the Palace of Neceeeidadee.

A rumour is very prevalent to the effect that • marriage
is arranged between Dom Pedro V. and the daughter of
King Victor Emmanuel.

The ports have been opened for the admiseion of foreign
cereals until the mouth of April next. Two shipment' of
pain have already arrived, and no doubt the market will
soon be glutted, inasmuch as 'etch hos every year been th-
an, owing to overepeculation among importers.
It is said that the Portuguese government has con-
cluded to exact no more taxes from British resident"' in
Portugal than the terms of the treaty admit. In this
manner no British merchant or resident can be called upon
to pay more than 20 per cent upon the rent of his house,
°thee, or warehouse.

The weather continues to be extremely boisterous,
attended with heavy rains and thunderstorms.
Made is dull in Lisbon. Manchester goods are difficult of
eels, on account of the enhanced price. Sugar and team in
tile maw manner, on account of the rise in the English
markets.

Exchange is quoted on London, at three months, 531;
Paris, 528; Amsterdam, 42.70 ; Hamburg, 48i ; Genoa,
526; Routes, 3 per cent., 481; Deferred, ; Coupons,
471; Lisbon Bank, 586.000 mania ; Oporto Mercantile
Bank, 260.000 =Leis ; Oporto Commercial Beak, 260.000
mania.

Prince Napoleon, it is said, is about to leave
Paris for Switzerland, to visit his estate in that country.

The Aemod6o steam frigate, having on board the
Siamese Ambassador; arrived at Alemodtie on the 16th
from Civita Vecchia. They are, it is mid, to pay a visit to
the Viceroy of Egypt, and thee embark at Suez for Cochin
Chios, which they propose to visit before returniog to
Sam.

.
An ingenious inventor in France,uatnett Basin,

has produced a new mode of communication between the
PINIKAgerI and the guard of a railway train. Each canine
is provided with a bell and a rand; when a cord is palled
the latter is set free, and, turniag rapidly by the peerage of
the train through the air, works the clapper of the bell,
and at the same time brings a coloured flag into view. The
person who pulled the cord is indicated by the fact that the
latter is displaced until the alarm is nest.

A Rat misfortune seems to be impending
over the magnificent old ruins of Heidelberg Cud', in
oensequence of, the railway tunnel whirl is being taken
through the hill upon which the ancient building stands.
Susie the commencement of the works several relate sad

floured, some of them serious, have made their appean•oe
along the whole len4th of the castle walla. In the lower
parts of the structure, as in the ch►pel, and especially in
the cellar with the peat tun, the injuries are toms con-
siderable than in the upper apartments. With • view to
inquiring into the muse and extent of the damage, and the
prevention of further mischief, • eornmiesion has been
convened by Herr von Bayer, the conservator of Baden
antiquities. . . . .

Pastor Harms, a protestant missionary, at a late
meeting in Hanover, treated his Hanoverian hearers to as
animated description of the negro chiefs of the coast of
Guinea. A short time ago, it seems, an immense slaughter
of subjects had been indulged in by one of these native
heroes on the death of his father. The occurrence an
worked upon the heart of the pious orator as to sense the
delivery of the following wonderful effusion —" There are
men (said the Hanoverian Gamaliel) who say, 'We do not
want a king any longer, we will have no more kings ; and
if you ask them, ' What have you spinet your kings?
than they reckon up ► whole catalogue of crimes and offences.
Such people should be seat to Halllrlasid, to be put in the
hands of these men-slaughtering chiefs; then they would
sow learn to appreciate the benign treatment which they
receive at the hands of our kings." A Hanoverian journal
remarks upon this :—" There would seem, however, to be
still something very dreadful in the state of things here, if
ens must be mat to &Arland in order to recognise the
beasnowscs of the present race of crowned heads."