The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

WNW-THIS DAY.

Two o'Cloca.
In the home mining stock market to-day, one of
the features is a decline in Sortridge Consols shares,
which are marked 2k and 21. West Basset have
met with some inquiry, and have been dealt
in at 241 and 241. Most other home descriptions
are quiet, with little change in price.
Foreign and colonial mining shares remain
inanimate. Those of the Mexican and South Ame-
rican Smelting Compsay are still offered, and have
been sold at 7s. enl. per UM share, fully paid.
Subjoined is the official list of closing prices in
the Mining Exchange on Saturday
Chancellorville: 4a. Gd., 6s. ;*. East Alfred, 31. Ge. ; East
36a. 6d., hits. fid. Kingston Down, 6 I-16 ; Kelly
Bray. 2i; Lady Berths, 24.. 9d.. 255. 6d.; 64=4. Con-
sols, 21. vr 4s. 3d.. 21. 6s. ; Treetha, 21c, 23a.; Gren-
ville, 2/. 64. 34.; Wheal Ludoott, 32a., 334. rd.; Wheal
Trelawney, 251; Wheal Wrey, 41, 5.

SATtIDAY i'vannto.

Business in home mining stocks to-day was
limited, and the market shows diminished firmness.
In a number of cases, including North Frances and
Wheal Basset, prices were quoted rather lower.
The following may be given as the closing quota-
tions for some of the descriptions currently dealt in,
viz.:—Wheal tiny, 7 to 71; East Alfred, n to 3 ;
Ke!lv Bray, 21 to 21; (inwton United, 245. to 265. ;
East. Rosewarne, 171. 6d. to 20s. • Wheal Edward,
9t09! ; and Wheal Trelawney, 241 to 251.

According to the hist accounts from Persia, con-
siderable damage has been mused by shocks of esrthgnake,
particularly in the Adherbidjen. The small town of Tesoog
bat been almost entirely destroyed. In Georgia the Kans—
as stint Cyrus—left its bed and inundated the rogatry
and several towns on its banks.

The Hon. Mr. Sumner, of the United States, passed
through Ineernew last week, on his way from fillmmuomh to
Donrobha Cud..

A circular has been addressed by Lord Clarendon
to the British ministers at maritime courts, directing them to
call the attention of the governments to which the are ac-
credited to the facilities afforded for merchant rhino of all
nations to make known their identity when meeting British
vesicle at sea, or parsing signal stations on the coast of the
United Kingdom. To effect this, application must be made
to the Ilegistrar-General of Seamen, who, on receiving par-
ticulars of ns.me, tonnage, port of registry, and national Bag,
and horse-power if a steemor, will appropriate a dirtiest
net for each vessel,' comprising four of the fleee used in the
Commercial Code euthorised by the Board of Trade.
THE CABINET. Lord Palmerston remains at
Broadlande. Lord Lansdowne has recovered from his recent
indisporition, and is expected to leave Bowood directly after
the arrival of the Indian news for London, to be present at
the re-assembling of the cabinet. Mr. Labouthere is at
Stowey, Sir Geerge Grey at Falledon. Sir C. Wood left
town on Saturday for Mickleton Ball. Lord Granville, the
Doke of Argyll, Sir G. C. Lewis, and Lord Stanley of Alder-
ley, are also ab ent front town et transit.
MR. HASTIE, M.P.—We (North British Mail)
understand that Provost Brown has received a letter this
week from the hon. member for Paisley, apologising for his
being unable to Trait his constituents in his urinal was this
year. The health of Mr. Butte has for a coosiderable time
hem preotrieus, and great caution on his part 61 enjoined byhie
medical adviser. In the letter to which we have alluded,
Mr. lisstie comment• upon the Scotch busfnees brought be-
fore parliament lan resizon, and particularly alludes in con-
demnatory terms to the New Lunary Act.
THE BEDOFIN.—It is it curious fact that, whilst
the Christian tuissionary has made his way to almost every
pert of the globe and has taught with more or leas sucrose,
be has never succeeded in mixing with the Bedouins. They
wander over a region which, from physkiti causes, ma be
inhabited by none others but men following then mode of
life. From the earliest times every effort has LOCI made toe
rednoe them to subjection, and to render their haunta, by
human skill and labour, fit to receive a settled population.
Ca eels and watercourses wee, as we have described, carried
at for into the desert es human inrannity co cad devise; and
where water cull reach, there the land wee conquered. Bat
there remained beyond a vast region which the Bedouin could
call his own. There he is to be found still curb as we tee
him represented on the walls of the Assyrian Werra riding
his swift dromedary ; at we read of him in sacred history,
soddenly er nearing as a robber in the midst of the quiet
cul-
tivators of the soil, end as suddenly returning to his wilds •
emi se he defied the Roman% and direppeered unharmed be:
fore their well-trained legions during the hoicht of their
power: he remains to this hour unchanged in his runners.
his lentruege, Lis arm'. and his dye.. It i i'henschenseeble-
new which render, the Bedouin or interesting as a study. Ile
is the only existing link between the earliest ages of man-
kind and the present time, like a eionlo strange animal con-
no nog the actual world with some geological period.—
Quarterly Eerier, new number.
THE MONTHORENCT.—We leant from the char-
terms of the .hip Montmorency of the Black Bell line, that
the annoesionrent that she had been taken up to convey
troops to India is wholly incorrect. The Montmorency is
now in die London Docks, completing her cargo for Welling-
ton and Cantettury, New Zealand, having taken a great
to
of her cargo an baud at Liverpool previous to coming
to this pert, end will meet with very quick dispatch.
BOARD OF TRADE. WRITEILALL, OCT. 23.
The Right Hen. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Coun-
cil for Trade and Plantatinna hero received, through the
Secretary of Stile for Turin Affairs, a copy of a deepatch
from her Majesty's Amburader et Perla, incising copy of a
French Imperial demise, prolonging the exemption from navi-
gation duce accented by the decree of the ith Oct., 1856, with
respect to Yemen lad= with cargoes of grain, flour, rice,
potatoes, end dried v egetabkis, until the 30th Sept., ISM.—
Guerra.

TILE KING OF PRUSSIA.
DEI.I.(..kTION OF THE ROYAL POWERS.

The fo.:ou.ing te!egraphie despatches haws been
received from Berlin:

sAxe.sorci, FICIDAY, OeT. 21.

A cat order, resulting from the formal opinion
of the 14,),:elans, who mate that the king must ab-
Main for at lisst three mouth* from all affairs of
government, mutt rs upon the Niece of Prussia the
direetioo of the supreme affairs of the state foe the
said reresl of tt.ree son•".•. im'cin, contrary to all
espectst.oo. the king's health sho.ild Le r.-esta-
bltand *Goner.

The order of the cahitut ins `ace the Prince to take
upon himself the execution of its provisions.

BERLIN. wr• Itt.tY, 0e,.24.
To-day at noon the taineAtr, or *Ulf* assembled at
the palace, and the Prince nt Prussia reeriird the
delegation of p,wtr for three Laonths, in virtue of a
cabinet =the signed yesterday by the king, and
countereigned by Baron von AI inteuffel.
The bulletin of the health, dated from
Bans-Suuci, this morning at 11 o'clock, states that
daring the last twenty-funr Lairs the state of his
Majesty has been most satisfactory.

BERLIN, RATVIDAT Eirtsmo.

His Royal Ifiglutees the Prince of Freesia has'
addres,ed to the ministers a statement, in which,
after announcing his aceep:ance of the royal powers
conferred upon him, he declares it to be his firm will
to conform faithfully to the constitution end laws of
the )untry, and to direct the stairs of the govern-
orient a. cording to the King's intentions, known to
lt,m, so iong as Majesty shall think fit.
The Prime adds that he expects from the army.
the furctiinaries, and the subjects of the King, that
they w:11 pay him due obedience. The ministers
collectively, and each of them inejvidnally, will re-
main charged with the same responsibilities a. be-
fore. The liai,try of State and the several depart-
ments, together with the military .nd civil adminis-
trations, wili be maintained in the same conditions.

The &verses of the Prince will Lea: the signature :
—By dele:Ation of his Nlajesty the King : the
Prinze of Prussia.

The l'rioce ',raja Cod to grant him strength and
grace to exceute his mission to the King's satisfac-
tion, and for the good of the country, and hopes that
the re-estahliblaneot of his Majesty's shattered
health will soon put an end to a mission, which he
has accepted in deference to the King's orders, and
from love to his country.

TIIE FEARFUL MORTALITY AT LISBON.

CRON OON OWN CONAMONININTa
LISBON, Ger. 19.

I regret that I am not yet able to notice a change
for the better in the course of the deadly epidemic,
which cantina:is to ravage this capital. The disease
now appears to be sprteling, instead of confining
itself, as at first, to the parishes of the Se and Mag-
dalena. The movement everywhere, and among all
classes, is to get out of the town and into the open
country. So many people have left Lisbon, that the
altered stvte of things is obvious ta everybody. There
is no appearance of life, no business, the shops are
shut up—no carriages alike the ethers of the silent
streets; on 'Change it is the same, hardly a dozen
merchants are to be found at the hours
of business, few bilis are n:gotiated, and
tveryt'iing is the shape of trade is ;iarulysed. The
govsrnment has begun to provide encampments in
squares and open places for the gal:egos, or water-
carrisrs, who ►ive in close dirty houses, where they
are greatly overcrowded and unable to ply proper
attention to cleanliness. The average mortality is
about 60 daily, and the upper and middle classes of
society have hitherto suffered most. The Count
tfw Casal, the Baron de &uncle, and Signor
Seazedello arc among the victims of note who have
recently been carried off. The faculty still continue
divided in their opinions about the nature of the
fewer; and are by no means unanimous in classing it
as yellow reser. There can, however, be no doubt
that many ease" of yellow fever have occurred, but
the balance of probabilities seems to turn to the aide
of th...4e who ,nsiutain that the disease is a species of
typhus, highly contagious, and very (idol in its
sffects.

Among other things may be mentioned the fart
that the Cardinal Patriarch, the bead of the church
in Lisbon, has wised this time to visit Santarem
where he pcnists in remaining—praying, but at a
distance, for welfare of his flock.
I hear, beside-, of some cues of husbands aban-
doning thCir wives and children who are attacked
by the frier, ::nd flying away into the .pen country.
But in opposition to this we may Kt the conduct of
many members of the medical profession who man-
tally maintain t'eir post., al:hpugh many of the:-
number have soccumbed to the destroyer. The
King is also assiduous in doing everything in his
power to calm the terror of the people, and is fre-
quently to be seen riding about the streets.
.1s a natural consequence of the stoppage of buil-
sus, three is a great scarcity of money, and a mo-
notary crisis is fears 4 in the commercial community.
1 hear already that bills upon some of the wholesale
Portuguese houses in the dry goods line bare been
protested, and that tiro Bank has refused to discount
paper.

ASSNCIho. —The British and Nct th
Americas maid mail Mean-.hip Captahs lan',
milea ea Sathrdn• for Ilalifaa and Wove', 'Rh 164 pass
aemtems, 241,13.1 inversion's, and a full and mew.
I tx. ti,t•t lu M aut.—The Nit insular and Orienta I
ColltPmf • of.- F".'ht; fimeodn. Captain Tregenr. °Vim-
minity west Ltr Visaed Irwin, asrived at Southany-
t a yesterday I.;th the Proinsalar m.tla. Her &tea son---
Gttnhu. U.
t a. !7; Lists, Oct 19. She
tanasht Si nnn rm. Aleut 10 ym..4 o,t. 14 the Rhone
f IIV •I, al,. is aria Ilse barque
adslibia et 1. min, fr. m Mantillas, alth a reamel mean fof
Itmore Aln a. atom the latter am Inward to have enne
tibiae with ,irs .4 ths crew , the mot. nmrte.a in Mil, 61.
inalnliay the etas.?. ant on hoard the Rkoss the latter
tat cal! her l'hhouta. fifftfrlClS had left the rook on the 1.501
to mat, h of tbs miming ahty„
OrTWAVI, Milts —lt is more than pm"sble that
at the faellieliCvu..fit of the mkt yaw there sill ba a weekly
t`i labs by the nartharl rotate. Ihe
Rip a will'.:;: ;nt the coil of the tastrosimo. Ihs nor
Captain Trearar, sill ham on ths 31.1
mat. fro In,. the Caro. The sew army areatnahin
K,aiaaia, t, as mil 600 home-prier, in rays-MS t 0
Oa. weak toms Glasgow She ha.
hers Ludt b 1 T. sari hl'Oraror, sae s. a nllsirk •
ably See &Lop. S'ae wtll b. aides the commawl of tarots
K iflo:k..ail rill make one image ap ihe Niffhlerflm
flew ,bla ahe Fronted to India In. lbw Cape, and nibs
the Maths latwe::.ealcutta aad Snit.

STUN 10 I flu till —The steimiki p
Cat/eats 130. k, el the Ilettehttre ash fletztliea Nevi.
•sti••• Coe.• +fly. I, ft ,h..,`tan,,,,et yeeteettoty f., Liston.
P.naambee:. Balmy mad Kin he Juletre., with • .lip's letter
awl. 230 peet.t.ieee, '2o,4httl. in epee,. sad 1,000 teas t.,1
r

EttlCllett w Irltob Tilt UNl7rit K tertftWW.—
Frew VA eidal recent 4 061i.111100 from r stem the relta
agosi at which then IMP 110•WIIII1•11• ,111,271itanl nM an
kw germ, 'Meer lbe beh of sreteniher, ..:whet. the
peels:Am —Tbr oral reerrstion for the quarter
woe 31.991, egeleet 60.2?tt d”rittlf the ronetTorailiee speller
of Wet year. The daporiere. foot the prod* ports were—
VOWS the lavetiv,i. SAO 110Z0 1.40 2,996 tom
fly. orb, sad Lie 7 from eouthasr peon, from Olergew,
ebd 1.101 from. tho minus Irish ports. Of thew
abwohwe we led that 32.044 embarked for the Crated Stair.
14.266 for the Asetralartee Coksiee, 4.679 fort Meta North
Amelia, rid 043 fee other placer,—/frornefiew Besent.
A learn from Coposhagen, of the 15th, annotroas
thet the lietiabel Beek of Drucciesk had iscreered its robe if
ellecewel fru& 6 le S par web

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

THY. AII3IOIIT.TY, OCT. 24.—The following iW
p ate err,. leek to4ty :—Lieat. H. Davie*, to Ow
Vortrant Lieut. C. 0. G. Contivol, to dot HMS; IMO-
J. H. Coke, tr tho awake; Mr. lived F. Crows. to ho
mete to the Crakes; Mr. J. 0•1111 st gawks, sevsl ariet,
to the Valorous; 111 r. H. A. Stmou, some= woPerbale*
drat, to die Led, Ilersoughtea weviet dap, Mr. H. C.
A Lim,, ouster's ereetast, to the Haas; Mr. H. Lisdgekt,
u.tottet awiessat, to tLe Ponies.