The Express.
London, England, 1861-07-09 00:00:00

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY.
The West Afrioan Mail steamer Athenian bee
oared Len. Rim dates an Bora, June 6 ; tornado Po,
Juan 3 ; Cameroon; May 31; Old Calabar, Seib ; Brass
River and Non afar, Bth ; Bossy, 7th ; Britton Lsgo
10th ; Aorta, 12th ; Cape Cart Orals, 14th ; Cape Palma,
16th ; Sierra Leese, 21at ; Bathurst, 25th ; Tenant', 30th
ultimo ; Madeira, 2nd instant. Rho brings 3,000 canoes o 4
gold dust and 3,000 f. in specie. There is no ;sews of im-
portance.
The rivers were F.:. Oil was tether MOT* plentiful
era hitherto. but were still Toy tight.
Mr. Poor, her ajesty'a Consul at Lagoa, died of fever
at Imes, after the attar r Porto Novo.
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Zraoof Hassety, mooed King at Old Calabar, died on the
IA May.
Bar Majesty's ship Falcon had captured the alsver Flight,
of Bastes, United States, with rM slaves on hoard. Th•
pdse was at Sierra Leone on the Nth of June.
The Sunbeam, below'. to the Niger expedition, was at
Nua River.

" We are compelled to admit," says the Moniteur
Miskolc, " that the emetienance of the =favourable
weather which has prevailed for the last tea days begins to
give ea some uneasiness. The constant FICOSIWOU of cold
showers, and the low tionperatere niceniog and eveniog,
are threstesing for the crop of grapes, which appeared so
promising some time nom. Oar wine-growers have always
coundered the appearance of a comet lie a peonage of •
superior vintage ,• we earnestly desire that these traditional
hopes may be realieed this year ; but up to the present time
there is so appearance of any such result."
The Sentinele of Toulon states that, three even-
imp beak, in the Rue de flavoonieres, in that town, • girl
about seventeen year. of age, after sterne angry words from
her mother, threw herself out of • third floor window into
the Amt. She fell oo the pavemeot close to some persons
who were sitting out to enjoy the fresh air. They hastened
to take up what they supposed must be a dead body, but,
owing to the young person's ample crinoline, which had
scud se a parachute, she had received neither fracture nor
wooed, though she was rather severely bruised and greatly
shako&

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!MIES& PROM
(ao' aow coaaascommairr.)
. PARIS, MONDAY Ida.
The Mires trial went on to-day without produc-
ing any remarkable incident. M. Lion Duval
spoke fur Count Simeon, senator, who, as a mem-
ber of the council at surveillance of the Mires'
wine, is charged as "civilly responsible" for the mis-
deeds imputed toltires imilSolar. M. Duval stigma-
tised the indictment as "infamous," and indig-
nantly repudiated all the charges made against his
client ; but as the argument would only be intel-
ligible to those who have followed the trial from
the commencement, I abstain from giving any

sketch of it. I only notice, as an illustration of
the funny manner, according to onr notions, in
which French trials are conducted, that IL lA@
Duval—by way of a crowning proof of the inno-
cence of his client—read a letter from M. Trop-
long, a brother senator, and the highest judge in
France, telling Count Simeon that he had no doubt
that the court would acquit him.
Mires, who has his own shorthand writers in
court, is about to publish M. Pimple's defence of
him in the form of a pamphlet, which will be sold
for two sous.

The Pays says, with provoking mystery, that it
knows who is to be the French minister at Turin,
but it does not give the name. Immediately under-
neath this reserved intimation appears the announce-
ment that the Marquis de Lavalette is shortly
expected in Paris from Constantinople. Now it
appears from other sources of information, that M.
de Lavalette is to leave Constantinople on
the 11th, and that from that day Count
Lellemand, his principal secretary, will take
charge of the affairs of the embassy. It is,
moreover, rumoured that M. de Lavalette, whose
appointment to that post has been often spoken of,
and as frequently denied, is, after all, to be the
Italian minister. But, inasmuch as M. de Lava-
lette has the rank of ambassador, it is supposed
that the French government must have revoked its
determination to be represented in Italy only by a
minister plenipotentiary.

The elevation of K de la Guerronnidre to the
Senate, which I announced to you four days ago,
L wetted in this morning's Afortiteur. The name
of his successor in the direction of the press is not
Imon, but Imhaus, or if the spelling of the latest
news of this evening's Pays be correct, Ymhaus.
The new Cerberus of the press, whatever his name
may be, is no longer to be called "director-gene-
ral," but simply "director." Let us hope, from
the cutting down of his title, that be is intended to
"direct" the expression of public opinion in a lees
degree than his predecessors were in the habit of
doing. K Paulin Lin:Layne say; in the Pays,
that K de la Guerrounikee's entry in the Senate is
"the highest possible honour that could be paid to
the political and militant press." This apprecia-
tion, of course, implies that the Pays regards a
censor, not as a wolf in the fold of letters, but as
a benevolent shepherd.
Almost all the French journals (including the
Opinion Nationale) state that Prince Napoleon and
the Princess Clothilde (who have either arrived or
are expected at Lisbon) are to leave that city about
the 16th July for America. This news will give
rise to many conjectures ; for it was reported some'
time ago, and the journals recently arrived from
New York contain the statement in large type,
that the Emperor had ordered his cousin not to go
to the United States.

' This evening M. Thouvenel gives a grand dinner
to the Siamese ambassadors. " Covers" will be
laid for eighty people, and the entire Corps Diplo-
matique is invited.
M. Magnan, a merchant captain—who made for
himself a name during the Crimean war, by proudly
taking his vessel up the Danube, in the teeth of as
Austrian battery, and thereby set on foot the ne-
gotiations which led to the free navigation of the
river—has just come out as a pamphleteer. His
production, published by Dentu, is entitled
" Les Derniers Jours de l'Empire Ottoman." He
considers the Ottoman empire as on its last legs,
and proposes by way of a solution of the knotty
Eastern question, without a European war, that
the Turks and Christians, subjects of the Sultan,
should be allowed to fight among themselves, the
other powers looking quietly on. The Christians,
this Eastern traveller sasserte,are all ready for fight-
ing, and, if let alone, would assuredly drive the
last Turk out of Europe before the end of a twelve-
wrath ; and then, when mass should have been cele-
brated in St. Sophia without opposition, diplomacy
might step in and sanction the new state of things.
The four centuries during which, according to an old
prophecy, the Turkish empire was to last having
now run out, this jolly tar feels oonfident that the
fatalist Mussulmans would oppose but a feeble re-
sistance to such a general rising of the Christians
as he would provoke.

The Bourse was doll and weak. Rente fell 150.
and 10c., closing at the lowest prices of the day,
67fr. 50e. and 67fr. 650. hlobilier fell 2fr. 50c.
The Lyons Railway rose 2fr. We. Western and
Southern fell Ik. 25c. each ; and in, the other lines
there was no change.

M. Isaac Pereire leaves Paris to-night for Bt.
Petersburg.

POLAND.

(raom • COBRICIPONDICTT.)
WILNA, CAPITAL or Lunt/may Julia 21.

The attention of Europe should not be limited
merely to the doings at Warsaw. The revival of
the national spirit does not belong to any particular
spot—it is the resurrection of the whole of Poland.
Though we have not electric telegraphs at our dis-
posal to influence unity of action by a rapid trans-
mission of necessary instructions, though the Rus-
sian authorities are stretching their efforts to
isolate each locality and keep it in perfect ignorance
as to what may be taking place elsewhere, yet a
strong current of thought and sentiment seems
to have set in, and is fast rising into a mighty tide
that bids defiance to all measures of repression.
We cannot account by what means the people as
Wilna as if on a sudden were seized with
a spiritual contagion, and the national hymn
became a favourite hymn in the churches, nay, it
became also a popular hymn even in the streets.
This occurrence is the more strange, as Wilaa,

being placed at nearly four hundr;tl miles from
Warsaw, its inhabitants, iu a large majority, could
not be acquainted with the spirit that has shown
itself in the latter city. Thus facts concur to show
that the whole body of Poland feels the approach-
ing time of its resuscitation. Her pulsation is one,
her wish is the same, to be a nation among nations ;
to recover her rights, of which she was so unjustly
and cruelly deprived. You can easily imagine
that the Russian authorities here frown furiously
at this pious madness of the people, whom they
hope to bring to their calm senses by severity.
General-Governor Nazimow issued an order pro-
hibiting the singing of this hymn at any place
or on any occasion. He sent a peremptory com-
mand to the clergy that this official document
should be read in all churches on the same Sunday
at the end of the sermon. The Sunday arrived--
the churches were crowded, but when the usual
time for • sermon approached, no preacher could
be found in any church to ascend the pulpit,
though there are more than 60 churches in the

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team ..This unanimity of horror felt by the clergy
at giviirg publicity to a measure so repugnant to
So tailings of the country, is a strong evidence
that dl classes identify themselves with the na-
tional spirit '1 sarcsis seed add the time usually
alaupied by the seance was converted into a sub-
Nib scene of intense emotion. The people, after a
short suspense, as if under the influence of a sudden
flash of clairvoyance, threw themselves upon their
kneeA, and with more than ordinary fervency began to
sing the very. forbidden hymn. Again, General-
Governor Nartmow caused a warning to be communi-
cated to the students that if any one of them should
be discovered singing that particular hymn he
would be expelled from his college. There are
already many put on the list of such criminals, but
will their fate intimidate the rest f I believe that
it will not ; for what is considered bj, the Russian
authority as a punishment becomes in the eyes of
youth—and even in the eyes of the country—a dis-
tinction. There is also a visible improvement in
the legitimate exercise of public opinion. It vented
itself lately agamet • high civic official, Mr. Do-
mejko, the Marshal of the Nobility, who is justly
very unpopular. Be was served with a notice, nu-
merously signed by the land proprietors, request-
ing him to resign his duties, that their wants and
wishes might be represented by • person possessing
general confidesoa These farts contain in them-
selves sufficiently momentous indications, to which
the statesmen of Europe may well direct their se-
rious consideration.