The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-05 00:00:00

THE PROPA,:ATIoN OF pIeANDAL.

•
The following elpia.natiou td the rise and 'Tread
of tlie r tnot.lipm, tin: oar in reference to the Maropous of
lkownsliii, awl hi, snot: ,e which has atiorded •
such beet for the wood-r Wei 64.41141.11-11.401gretion of the !
puldte (..r i.t,t art., or two, ie by the London tone.
+pendent of the Ma. os'.• .ser who, we believe,
was the first so cause it to appear in print :
" I hest. erre an agent in giviag publicity to the
' Sylptoiole sysiehor vita such olio:rum of lames '
as would have prevented identilicatioa of the penoraulges of
the story, laid nit Lord Amherst thought lit to give the
Marquis of lAiwnshin:'s name in his letter to the Times,
contradicting the report—l have thought', it my duty
to investigate the made in which so utterly on-
hounoled a sway should base obtained such extensive
creoleuve and wide eirsulatioa, as well as that
extramolonary eircunistantudity of detail, and parade
of authority, which completely took me in, as it did so
many .theta. Every honest man who has helped to pro-
pagate a false report however free he may have been from
stouter intention in so doing—wind be =Moue to do his
utmost that any contradiction sod explanation he can sup-
ply should spread as wide as the report. Acting under this
feeling, I sus okeirous of now infornoiug your readers that
theretoretort on question without!anv,tuore substautisl founds-
tent than .. q4under mums, by tlie literal interpretation of
a tignmt:ve expression. Whit lam further in a position
to explain is the mode in which this blunder grew into
the scandal that for so, many days formed the most
exciting topic of .:tab and west-end comment in Lon.
don. The Marquis, it appears, had a passenger sad
guest on leant hi. yacht, who either grew tired of his
nompsey, ot his company of him. In consequence, the
guest was put ashore at emits Vecchia ; and some one
on board, in wraith; an account of the matter to an ae-
quaintance in Turin. used some such common phras as 'D.
and E. hale had a row. and 1). has thrown him overboard;
meaning, of corame, has brought his cruise on board the
Sylphiik abruptly to an end. The unlucky figure of speech
was taken literally by the pent= to whom it wax addressed.
He, naturally, acting under the impression that the unfor-
tunate E. bad Meru thrown overboanl, lamented anion, his
acquaintaoce the tragical catastrophe. The Pialmontere go-
wenimeot, +bowleg in the mistake, telegraphed it to their
minister here. The Marquis cl*Azlio took the study to
the Foreigtoothee. ft spread like wildfire through the staff
of the office From the Foreign office to the Travellers—
from the Travellers to any other club in Pall-mall and St.
Jatioes'sstreet, from the clubs to west-end diuuerdables
awl draw-ingrooms —are easy, and indeed inevitable, stages
in the progress of a report. Very soots every button-holder
was busy with the startling tale. As it spread it gathered
ineasistetice. Supp.sitioat grew into circumstances, and
the surmises of one narrator became the facts of the pro-
of the story. re There we men just returned
rarersitoll'isples who could couch for the truth' of what,
however widely spread. needs must be met with incredu-
lity at And. ' The Marquis was in custody? 'No ; the
Marquis had tled, and was in hiding.' 'The Poreign-otrnae
had received a teligraim inpuiring what course was to he
takes.' Men were speculatiog on the chances' of getting
places for the trial in Westminster-hall, Ac., ke. Of course
the report Doom reached the ears of the relatives and fries&
of the family. They, who knew that the captain of the
fotylphiele was a respectable. mature, weather-Lades com-
mander in the navy, the father of a fatools who had ex-
changed the unromiustic duties of a osastgUardstation for
the corismand of the volt, were mete irumethately sensible
of the gross improbability of the story, is Mai had by this
time acquired all its plumage, than thole who, heard it in
ignorance of the yr -son nil4,f the party aboard the Sylphide.
But when those Lets as to the captain were urged 01
disproof of the report —ingenious gossip shifted its ground
—`l4o, it wasn't the captain, that was a mistake, it was
the doctor.' Ati hat a member of the late administration,
and one of the moat intimate friends of the Marquis roof
Dowealiire, heard the report. nod set about probing it. He
towed it back sad back, till he sane to its Foreign-office
fountain head. From the Foreign-ootfice he was referred to
the Sardinian Minister, who showed bun the original de-
spatch from Turin. The keen legal mind pierced at owe to
limo tact. It Sall the niisintsrpretatioo of a figure of speech
--and au it turns out to have been. I eel bound to say, ID
hostas the subjeet,that even when rumour was moat inventive
sad most tragical, she showed a certain tenderness for her
victim, for she was careful to add the circumstances

showing the probability that the catastrophe was acct.
dental—the resale o( an exertion of micalculating
s h -and that the assailant did all ha could to save
the life of the unfortunate subject of his sudden onslaught.
I was careful to mention these circumstances in my nor.
native of the facts, and it is some, though • poor satisfac-
tion, now that the report turns out not to have • leg of
fact to stand on, to think that I suppressed the Marquis
of Downshift's name, and that 1 described the el:cam-
eleerw in the light of • miemlventure, and not a
murder. At the same time, I would infinitely prefer
net to have repeated the story at all. Yy justification
must he that, like many older and wiser beads, I was
completely taken in."

LORD PALXIIRNTONNI Vist To SorrICAMPTON.—
The arrangements is menerdies with Lord Palmerston 's
visit to Southempton ea Tuesday next, the filth instant,
for the purpose of laying the comer-stone of the
Hartley Institution, a budding to be devoted to
literary and scientific purposes, are now nearly coin.
dated. It is understood that the noble viscount will
waive at the Town-hall from his seat at Broadlando at baff-
les% 12 o'clock, where his lordship will he received by the
seepee, sorporatioe, borough =quintal, and other gentle.
M • procession will then be formed and proceed to the
Meet W building, accompanied by the Volunteer Rite
(epe as • guard of honour, the fine band of the
sew bending the earue. On reaching the site the volum
Ism will file off in open colamo, and close in on the pro-
emirs after it has passed into the area. An address from
the tows council will thee be prriminted to Lord Palmerston,
alter which the mayor (Mr. Alderman Cole') will formally
rpwst his lordship to lay the stone, and present him with
• isadeome silver trowel manufactured for the purpose.
The stone having been laid by his lordship, Mr. J. R.
litslibing, one of the magistrates of the borough anclopresident
II the Southampton Polytechnic Institution, will deliver a
Wet address, thanking the noble viscount for his attend-
sad delailiag: the leading features of the scheme
eft wbkh the hietitutioo is to be carried out, end of which
We gestleeme was the author. The benediction will then
be prosouesed by the Rev. G. Bradshaw, and the me-
ets:" will harked by the band playing "God Save the
.enesi" Galleries are to be erected for the accommoda-
ting' of iOO persons, mid the whole space covered in with
mod Irdopagion's capacious alarroaa, to protect the visi-
ble ben any unfavourable weather. Lord Pelmerston will
eshessesetly honour the mayor and corporation with his
presence at a dejeaner at the Audit-house, for which about
• hundred invitations have been issued. The Hon. R. IL
Dutton, M.P., sad °then are expected to be present.
Sums° or • Srs•mLa WITH iGovssariuncr
Brows IN TR. THAN/M-11e Zebus NOM IHIRRNI, hied
by the governors* for commyasos of shot, shell, sad guns
to Mahe and Gibraltar, has loseows a week is timi
wear the Royal Victoria Victvalliaglard, at Deptford. It
that in coming down river • mew or bolt in
str sew steering gear and the pilot rise her ashore.
Je. doisig so, it is supposed that the steamer struck on some
Oise sod damaged her bottom, a. it has been found impos-
sible lie 'sore her. At high tide only her stern is to be
sere. het at low water she is high &ad dry, excepting bed
balielmr, which is then filled with water. 1 asterciey, at low
tikk, kw numbers of men were ia taking out her
stems, the damage to which I.
THE OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA
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SOUTRANNTON, JAN. 4,—'1100 PeninSllllllr NOd 06•31141 Corn-
pulls steamship Pera, Captain Jamieson, sailed hence
to-day, at 2.30 p.m., with the math far Gibraltar, the Medi.
ter:amen, Eaypt, Ades, Osty/on, India (accept. Bombay),
sad China. _ _ _

TiU Rs 7 INIIIA MAIL SEZVICL—PLYHtiVTH,
]amass.—TM West India mail steamer Trent coaled
to-day. and left for Southampton tonight. Nothing further
is known here respe.tiag the Shannon.
We extract a few out of the many thouaand
expressions of gratitude from Invalids cared without medicine
by Da Harry's delicious Reialents Arabic* loot—Cure So. 71,
the Right Hon. the Lord Stout de Decks, of many years dye
papal* and all It. horrors Cure No. 40.432 "Fifty yeas* lode-
setibable agony from d,ystiepata. nertuasnees, asthma, conah.
owast;lon. flatulency. spasms. aickneas at the stomach, and
youth . have been removed II Hu Harry. excellent Food.—
Marta uty, 'Northam ling, near Na., Norfolk."--ears
47,121. Miss laizateth Jaiubs. of Nixing Vicarage. Waltham
Cross. Herts. A cure of eidreere nervousness, Indigestion, gather.

lia—ind nervosa Imam—Cali
'simian, flatcars. soar Liman* a ewe of
Ism pima embirsia. and all be anon of nervous Irritability.
amid OM amil madicinss . they bearishly aitraesto and same-
Mai thibannoyanes illsappoistment, asd e easy
Waived. nalsidlisten' an.i apothecaries' MU avoided, 'Dynan
Ds Disey's rad. ukieb. It a leo pence per day. laves to times
east a physic aft and .‘tbir retnedim Ca liente N 0.111,418
—We end It the sired retried:. Am,:mam lit N.D.. Dr.
/brwy. Dr. Warier. Dr °llan& Dr. Vanipball Packed In tins,
welt fall lastructi.ha Its, 941, . !lb., ea. Id.. Sib.. Ils. ; Iflh.,
iilb . free of ...arrifir. 40e, BM Du Barn sad Co.. 77,
amend street . also. Yortn.aa. Nano. and Co , Piccadilly. Lon.
don . sad thrash all amen and awaits in this distrkt, and
all parts the kingdom --LAdvartiaareat.l