The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

THE HAWS 111M.486r.

WINDSOR, TAVIIBDAT.
The Siamese ambassadors and their attendants
arrived at Window at helf-peat 12 o'clock to-day, by the
Great Fitment Railway, In the splendid carrimwe ef the
company, kept for the use of the royal family. no Milan
were conducted to the Queen's sawn by Mr. Shim TM
cation wan crowded with spectators, who WNW the 4a-
rollers with Cher's. Three of the Qom's', earrloges,
@resent. in soviet Beak., being to bedlam., esaverd the
ambassadors and their suite limn the rsliwery it the Cast
where they ware received in the dumdums% a sash
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E IN MADEIRA.

" co rue IDITUO OP TICS ZIPIII.III.
Sig,—We beg to transmit to you the details re-
ferred to in our letter of the ttad inn.
We left Southampton in the Royal Mail Steam Company's
steamer Tyne on the 9th Inst., and reached Lisbon on the
14th. There we learned that on the Bth inst. the port had
her officielly declared infected," and that on our arrival
et Funchal we should have to undergo quarantine. On the
evening of the 16th we anchored at Fanchal, delivering
mils and pamenger list, Captain Loegden informing the
health Gears that be would be ready to land his passenger.
at 12o'clock next day. Owing, however, to mach unnecessary
sad vexatious delay on the part of the health ofilotr, we did not
lend at the Laserato till 6 p.m.; all this extra trouble and
fatigue being particularly trying to the 30 Invalids of our
pray. We found our term of detention Seed at Attain day..
Oar grievances may be stated under three heads —our
illegally prolonged detention, the insufficient accommodation,
to., end certain arbitrary end unnecessary restrictions. To
understand the first, we need only state that the Central
Board of Health at Lisbon is rapreate, all local boards of
health being subordinate; that the preadult of each local
board is a delegate or commissioner from the Lisbon board ;
that all sanitary regulations passed by the local beads require
the sanction of the central board before they become law ;
that the central board has as yet Bud the maximum of qua-
rantine at eight days, in wee such as oars, not deeming it
necessary to bean= it in the very despatch to the local
board brought by no from Lisbon ; and that therefore the
unauthorised act of the local board at Funchal con-
demning us to fifteen days is illegal. This act has,
however, been defended, on the ground that extraordinary
circumstances justify extraordinary measurer; but we
deny that In our case any earsordinery circumetsmis
existed. We merely touched at Lisbon—very few landed.
We brought no asp from that port to this. Not one of the
rare= came from residence ht Lisbon ; not a symptom
of liver wee on hoed ; end at the end of the eight days three
medical men (our fellow-passengers), who nobly went'
throng* the cholera last year, and who certainly rank
highest is this place, seat In a written certificate, In the
strongest terms declaring that we were entirely five from
any approach to =Meade or emnegiolue diatom. In such a
caw surely the mildest quarantine w.. alone required. The
truth is, as has been plainly avowed, we have been impel-
soned—illegally Imprisoned—for seven extra days, u victims
to a panic which the medical men and the pram should lave
allayed, instead of exciting, or to the apprehension of an out-
break which the government might not be strong enough to
suppress.
Next, Insufficient accommodation. With the situation of
the Lazaretto no great Wilt can be found, ocasidering the
conditions that require to be fallUied, though Dr. Bilis, are of
the authorities employed to fannies it, declared It unsuitable
from Its want of ventilation, because hemmed in by moue-
, tains ; and the conduct of the officials within the precise:to
bee been most courteous and obliging. At the wane time
little bar been done to improve the situation. There is only
• level of 60 yards; little or no shade, though fadeg the
fell blase of the southern sun, end with but ow scatty opting
of impute water. Drainage absolutely nose, and the most
sozloui and pestilential odours from various sources. There
ere et: detached buildings, one • wooden shed or "lean-to,
the roof covered with tine, sloping to the south, and without
ventilators, so that when, on account of the invalids, •
thorough draught esanot be admitted, the heat hes
rhea to 87 deg., though the average heat of this month is
68 deg. This is, moreover, the only room for meals for
ourselves end servants, and our only Bitting mom for 63 per-
' sou, In the wet weather (such as the autumnal reins we now
have) quite intolerable. But this is loamy lentil compared
with the sleeping arrangements. In one barrack there are
sixteen cabins or dens, 7 feet by 6, end the ceiling so low es
to be soircely two feet clear of your head ; each literally con-
taining but • straw mattress, hard, thin, and =cat, on the
bare door, not even a chair, table, drawer, or wash-hand
stand. In media building there are three roomy, one with
a lady and gentleman end two grown up daughters; the
second with six ladle., servant, and child ; In the third, ten
gentlemen, separated from each other by wooden partitions,
forming a series of stalls worse than horse-boxes; in each e
strew bed on the door, and =thin else. Ventilation ls so
utterly =provided for that the hat during the night becomes
shoat hurupportable: we, of the rooms ere not weather-
prooL A lady, fend by weererewding to change her quer
Ism, bad so alarsodee bet a cellar with unboarded door,
=shad wbakow, sal hop, mouldy walls. And these are
tbsswagunsebmadby the local board, the sanitary antho-
ddessi Meshed, dr gad with the preservation of the pub-
lishes" or. ems/ by the government with full power and
rib errs to awry out a perfect plan ! These era the
sotemensisdeles afforded by • civilised nation to those who
seek Its area for the restoration of shattered health; and
to whom they profess to extend their . hospitality," calliag
them their" grata I" No one, of course, expects luxury,
but ordinary comfort we are entitled to, and it Is disgraceful
to charge fully 12a. a-day, of which government has Ss.,
while condemning ladies end gentlemen, mod of them in-
valids, to straw beds and to amoremodation worse than that
of paupers or aiminala.
Lastly, ae to restrictions. If there Is to be quarantine, no
one desks the necessity of proper reetrictions. But on our
arrival here we found an unprecedented amount of rearaint.
We were not allowed to bathe, nor to have sea water for our
laths, nor even to walk on the narrow spot of shore at our
feet, though within musket shot of the sentries. Our inter-
course with our friends (though standing on • bridge 40 feet
from us) wee restricted to two hours • day for all of us : the
first hour (11 to 12) treeless, on account of the heat; the w-
ooed (4 to 5) newly so, from the crowd end coninsion. In
some instances oar families, whom we had not men for
months, were rudely driven away by the guard, after but a
few minter' converted= ; end In another cue the clerks
of an influential raident, our fellow-prisoner, were not per-
mitted to speak to him, though they had come on business
of great imputes= On the evening of the 19th inn. we
were deprived of ell drinking water, the barrels containing
it being sent away by the guard, and not admitted till nine
next morning. In consequence of this, one of our number, a
highly-respected clergyman, in the last stage of =Dump-
lion, and whose death was undoubtedly hastened by all he
was made to undergo, would have died asking In vain fur
water if • little had not been found in another person's room.
Another morning the bread for breakfast was for some time
ref med admission; sad, in short, columns might be filled
with the petty annoyance, as well se greeter grievances, to
which we have been neelkuly exposed. Now, it may be
aged, have we appealed to the authorities ? W.
lave; and though several of the restrictions hare
been removed, the greatest—the want of intercourse
with our friends—has received very little modifica-
tion, so much so that If erring prevents our families from
caning at the precise hour no convenstion is permitted. Can
snything be more puerile than this ? As if contagion, sup-
posing it to exist mooed us, could he oraimunicated at as
bear sad sat at rather. Ifes, we have repeatedly appealed,
esd the vice-stased, Mr. Hayward, acting camel In Mr.
fitaideas absence, has lebeured most energetically on our
behalf ; but In vain. Meek °Mehl correspondence hie
&ilea place, the substance of which Is that the Board of
Herth, lathed by the acting dill governor, Is au-
tesestie, mikes laws irrespective of the central board
and of its own home government, end enforces there ca
r and others by imprisoning us in the strictest
mom under a guard of soldiers. A portion of the
"Woks prem., too, (a excesaicely indignant bemuse we
warn to pretest against illegal detention and unoalkd-for
reelialises, and MORNS us of ridiculous pi ;de, insubordins.
tisk Issolasee, dietatice, unreasonable discontent, selfish la-
Ildheemee to the paddle health, &c., sad talks so loudly of our
gait their hospitality, that anyone in England might
limagire we were the guests" of the Portuguese in Oa,
lagiblt sense of that word, whereas the plain fact Is we pay
end pay well, for all we get, and it is no exaggeration to may
that the vieiters here =end manually 40,0001. la the
I Wend The hospitality, then, is simply that of the
landlord of en hotel, and the Portuguese and English
Illiterate In this respect ire merely those of convenience. We
guilefully acknowledp every era of courtrey—and they ere
sway—that we have received from our Portaging, friends
we gall not boast of eras of kindness we haracesferred. We
shell is pries suppose that the editors, who thus ralarepre-
met dais and descend to personal abuse, are rather the ague
of the mob than representatives of the sentiments of the
Portuguese nation; and that as Portuguese ladles and gen-
tlemen treated in Southampton es we have been treated in
Fanchal would es loudly and es justly complain, so it Is
unjust in the extrema to blame us for doing what any
would moat certainly have done under similar circonstences.
—We hare, de., OS QUARENTENARIOB."
Lacerate et Farr; Oct. 80.

Mr. Juan Cosayn, who has for many years reply-
melee the Spud& government at this wart as Giorgi
&stigma bas torn egeointad Under erscretsry for Foreign
Affairr, cad will lays Loam to commeaco his functions at
Madrid is a few days.