The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-14 00:00:00

ATTEMPT AT POISONING IN CEYLON.

The °old •blood persistcuoe of an Oriental bent on
revenge—the utter recklessness as to the consequences to
others—the absence of all idea of tha sacredness of life, are
well known, and were very near having a fatal exem-
plification amongst us recently. Oa the evening of
Friday last Mr. Shand entertained • large party,
including General and Mrs. O'Brien. After coffee had been
*served they all became more or less sick, some violently so,
The Goner.' suffered very severely, and we understand that
Mr. Pennefather continued to feel the evil effects of the
dose, more or less, until yesterday evening. No suspicion
attaches to the cook, who having partaken largely
of the coffee, after a day of fasting and fa-
tigue, himself suffered frightfully. A considerable
number of native servants belonging to the house and in
attendance on the guests, also partook of the coffee, and
suffered in consequence. The symptom.. and the ladies-
time, as fez as tests have been applied, all point to arsenic
as the poisonous agent employed. We regret to say that
the old question " Who is she!' applies to this case. A lail
in Mr. Shand's service carried on a liason with the
ayah, • married woman. The cook denounced
the guilty parties to the husband, and it is supposed that, to
be revenged on the cook, the lad referred to mixed the
poison with the coffee, nearly sacrificing the lives of twenty
or thirty persons who partook of it. This is the suspicion
at preemie rod the supposed guilty party is io custody. Mr.
Shoed is about to issue notices in the native languages offer-
lug a reward of 50/. for evidsece which shall lead to con-
viction. —Culortsto 0/wryer, Oat. 18.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THDI DAY.)

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:PLANATION.

ll.—Fkarptaster

»dam! to p! gig. atme,n ses

Irrel ; each 10 feet, of vertical vise, causing about Ohs-hundredth
of an loch dimloution , and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., causing
nearly three-huodredtla inerrant. L—Espoaed thermometer
In shade. 11.—Moistened both (for evaporation and dew
pointi. 11.-11trection of wind (true—two points kit of mag-
netic). I. Yorce (1 to 12—estimated). 11.—Cloud (1 to 9). I.—
initials : b, blue sky : c. clouds (detached) : f, fog ; b, bell I,
lightning: m, misty (hazy) ;0, overcast (dull) r, rain; s, cow;
I. thunder. IL—dem &Parlance (1 to 9). Z.--Calis.

PITTIOUT TO TIM &SPORT. PROBABLI BRFORII SATURDAY.
N. Britain—S. to E.
,and N.-- E. to Northerly—Gale, rain or
Gale, mow, rain. snow, then fresh.
Ireland—E. to N. and W.— N.E. to N.W.-Btrong, then
Variable, moderate, rain, moderate.
snow.
E. Coast—S.E. to N.E., N. and N. to W.— Strong to fredi and
W.—Strong gale, rain. clear.
S. England-B.E. to E.., N. and N.W. to S.W.—Strong.
N. W. Much rain, gale,
strong.
'N.B. Warning signals on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Victorian Industrial Exhibition was to be
opened at Melbourne on the let October. Great prepare-
Mons were being made for taut, event, and the Exhibition
building was being fitted up in a style calculated to du
justice to the large number of contributions which had been
forwarded.

Yesterday afternoon, Admiral Fitzroy telegraphed
to Mr. Morton, Hull, to "hoist drum," indicating that a
storm was to be expected.

The barristers of Marseilles gave a darner to M.
Berryer on Saturday last. Covers were laid for 100 persons.
M. Berthon, bdtonnier of the order of barristers, proposed
the health of their distinguished guest.

Since the abolition of passports, and since a
treaty of commerce was concluded between Great Britain
and Franco, the communication between the two countner
has greatly increased. During the first ten months of the
present year 108,758 travellers panned through Boulogne,
going to or coming from England. The number of tra-
vellers during the corresponding period of last year was only
91,785.
THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS is Ht'NOARY.-.•
The Peas of Vienna hos the following :—" We learn from
good authority that among the arrangements made by the
Chancellor and the Lieutenant on the occasion of the estab-
lishment of military tribunals, they agreed that every
journal not appearing in Hungary, which shall be drawn
up io a sense incompatible with the maintenance of order
and public tranquillity, may be prohibited and prevented
from entering Hungary by the post-office, whether the
journal be printed in Austria or in • foreign country. In
oonsequence of the new powers given to the military
tribunals, a particular section hu been reamed at the Court
of Military Appeal to take cognisance of the appeals of
civilians against the judgments of those tribunal'.