The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-23 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

neoesearies of life were maintained at a high point, and
even rose above it. The great labouring sad seam
clesned were reduced almost to beggary. That this was not
coneequent upon the' great lend levee' is plain
enough, when it is known that ids in
years
afterwards, were sold and bought prodtablyst prices above the
highest point of speculation prices daring the 'land fever,'
and the same is certainly known of property In this city.
The south, at that time, was perfectly bankrupt. Lo ok et
the contrast. To-day the foreign debt of the United States
is absolutely less than then. The south is not only out of
debt, but absolutely rich. She owns her own cotton, sugar,
rice, and tobacco, and adds nothing to the harden of indebt-
edness,. The north is in debt, but the immense surplus of
her productions, from harvests hitherto entirely unknown,
are amply sufficient to meet it all, and yet the prices rule
lower than at any period for four years. Then, again, the
vast majority of our indebtedness uof such • character as
really to amount to little. It is railroad loans, and times
once confined to the railroads themselves in the hands of
their creditors, nearly all of our debt is ' wiped out.' The sus-
pension of all our banks I. a
notofonate circumstance,
and it is to be hoped they will resume until they are
beyond the necessity of another suspension. The bank
currency will term
t.e equalised throughout the northern
states, and exchange will be as abundant within sixty
days, between the east and west, and rule at as
low prices, as in any prosperous year. Another erro-
moms idea is, that luxurious living, extravagant dress-
ing, splendid turnouts and Ana houses, are the causes of dis-
tress to a nation. No more erroneous impression could
min. Every extravagance that the man of 100,000 dole. or
1,000,000 indulges in adds to the minus, the ett, the
wealth of tan oe a hundred, who had little or nothing else
but their labour, their intellect, or their taste. If a man of
• million spbein.dsurincipal and interest to ten eon, and finds
himself at the end of that time, be has actually
made a hun red, who have catered to his extravagance, em-
ployers or employed, so much richer b 7 the diviskm of his
wealth. He nay be ruined, but the nation is better odf end
richer, for a hundred minds and hands, with 10,000 dela.
great
far more productive than ona with the whole. The
ruth apparent in all this mine is, that it simply what is
called& 'panto.' It is universal distrnst—evety man double his
neighbour's means, and has hie doubts returned. The
moment madames returns men will look into each other's
faces and feel ashamed that they allowed this pink to disturb
the public mind to the extent it has. The distress is
merely temporary and urgent beano se many have been
suddenly thrown oat of employment; but ampie
can be made for the deservlag at 0.0 thaw end tr=
may rest assured that the Common Council will take such
measures as may be deemed needful la tha prenness; bat the
unemployed must forbear until such provonen am be mad*,
and remember that the macs and goodordar et society must
be maintained throughout the aide.'"
In conclusion, the board pointed out some public weeks on
which the unemployed might be engaged. The City Comp.
troller had advertised for 100,000 dollen, as an instalment of
250,000 dollars, which was to be appoprinted towards the
employment of the &Abate.

Tag AUSTRALIAN OVERLAND MAIL.—An un-
happy fatality seems to await the Australian overland mail
service. The usfortanate dimmer which has occurred to the
Ewen steamer, with the hornewerd mails of September from i
the different colonial, &pia throws the postal intercourge into
Irregularity, for It appears that she Is rendered quite unfit to
return with the Octs r outward mail, gad which mast se- ,
ceeterily wait for the snivel if the Simla, ex that the October
and November beg. will have Suez together, while it is
=t!' possible that the es Wen, per
will mum forward with the advice', per
Simla, which will be due at Sum November 23; and It is
Por'bin that telegraphic intelligence may be received next
Thursday rid Malta end Cagliari. It will be remembered
that the Soren went out from England to take tho plum of
the Oneida, and, strange to say, she likewise, on her Int
=ll4226e,twanit
.the Auswtrallan
frolonise.
the and Stem, has
so that until the is :Wed to resume polio"Zeor moth;
steamer Is deepabeted from England to take her place, the
webs to end fro emit be alibied to disernageoreat. We
understand that one tem left cm beard the Elam, supposed to
contain newspapers, peeves to be letters. The whole Eddie
mails, with this fortunate Aden,me with the Arab
packet-boat, end aumeg width am e- no Ire than 11000 nee-
geed letters, the delay in the remipt of which, in them times
of monetary mew% may be of mem than mniel, East of
serieves, orosocarsco.—Meson, loom al of Nov. 21.
THE LATE DISTURBANCE Is LzwEs CHURCH-
TAID.—The Rev. J. K. Neale, warden of Sackville College,
who w. 4 together with the Sheen of Mercy, at fit. Mar-
garets limes. Nee OriaMead, the victim of a cowardly and
disgreretul stack la the LIMO churchyard the
tem other day,
has forwarded • Narrative of the proceedings to a con-
porary. Mr. Neale believes that the attack wee precon-
Meted. Is the vault, when the mob were growing fierce,
Mr. Neale mid to the incumbent of All Saints, " Mr.
&obeli, you see how threatening the mob fa ; will you
not mitect ths Sisters?' lie bowed, and pared
died
" and that, be it remembered, when his daughter had died
in their arms only five days previously. While this wee
purring the lights were either extinguished or so dashed
in our faces as to make a confusion worse than dark-
ness There was a cry of 'Do your duty ' Now
the performance Is to come off l• and a rush was immedi-
ately made upon us. The impression of all of us is that
some at but of the beaters and light-men were the ring-
leaders of the mob. But the strangest part of all was that
men decidedly in the garb of gentlemen, could stand by and
me tidies dashed this way and that, their veils dragged off,
and their drams torn, sad, far from readeriog the least
seeletance,oonid actually excite the dregs of the rabble to fur-
ther violence. I was myself knocked down, and for •
moment, while under the feet of the mob, gme myself np
for loet. Ws were borne along into the street, Mr. Scobell
having okay game home, sad taking no farther interest in
the easetir." Mr. Neale further says :—" I use It stated in
• paper of yesterday that I had attempted at the vault to
reed some oddities.] prayers at the coach:Moe of the service.
This is theoltitely and totally Wee. There is sot a shadow
of truth in it ; and I should have been the very last to have
for one moment contemplated so very indecent an inter-

pttenlCTlON OP DEATIL—A Lancaster contempo-
rary prints the following Sir,—l see occasionally in your
=predictions about hom certain e race*, mad as to a dog
a certain bitch. lam going to predict a more im-
portant affair. On the 24th December, 18.57, a lady will
alight at the Barton and Hokin Station. for the purpose of
visiting some of her friends resident in the neighbourhood
At the station she will be met with a carriage and two. The
coachman will drive towards Burton, but be shall not have
travelled more than two hundred yards from h statiou,
when the csuriage shall be upset, fell into a field about two-
ani-a-half yards below the level of the road, at the right-
hand sibs, and alighting In • brook, the lady will
be kilted, end the coachman have his thigh and head
broken. Twelve men will meet together at the Royal
Oak Inn, Burton, on the 25th Dec., at the •
summons of
the coroner, and they will bring in • verdict of Accidental
death ; ' they will hesitate a long time before they decide
what shall t,e tacked te their verdict, at last they will split
the differetue, and add, the jury find no fault with the Sur-
veyor dike Roads, but they recommend him to get them
I mended.' The jury will then sign their names, call for
gleams, and each man observe ' she woe a vane &coot lady.'
ill any einsible person doubts the accuracy of these predtc-
theorist him go to the spot indicated in this prophecy and
there lady the course of the planets. Yours truly, R. 8. T.
N.B. The place is just at • Lend of the road, and the edge
lead nil have fallen down into the field at the right trend of
the rood leather; from the station; the Mar reflected in the
brook is very bright."
DARING ESCAPE.—On Saturday morning a con-
vict, named Thanes King, alias Kelly, mode hie wage at
Chatham to a vary daring manner. For several weeks past
large gangs of convicts from the new convict prison recently
erected at Chatham have been employed in repairing the go-
vernment roads at Chatham, closely guarded by warders, all
of whom are provided with a loaded ride. On Saturday
morning, about nine o'clock, the convicts were employed
stone breaking in Ike military road, when King asked leave
of his warder, a man named Jackson, to be allowed to retire
for a few minutes. Permission having been, as usual,
granted, he wee followed by Jabots, when the convkitniade
• trodden dart through the railings near the soldiers' burial-
ground at the foot of the Haas, and although fired at and
followed for some distance by Jackson, succeeded in
effectiog hie escape. Shock, a polies constable, and
several of the other wardere, followed King, but, although
it was broad daylight, end hundreds of persons about, its
succeeded in gaining the woods at the outskirts of the town,
whore all traces of him were lost, and, not wirbehading num-
bers of men wee all Saturday sad yesterday enesged in
searching for him, his retreat could not be discovered. The
convict, when he escaped, had on the prison hawsers, but
was without • jacket. He is a vary &Torah ebasteeter, and
wea under sentence of transportation for a robbery with wh-
im*. The convict is a native of Northampton; his height
is 61t. 7in., and rage 2.5. A reward of 6/. has bent offered
for his real:prehension.
Tile. EXETER HALL SERVICIIB.—Lest night the
Rev. William Brock, minister of the Baptist Chspe4 Moms-
bury, conducted, at Exeter Hall, the first of the new striae
of services instituted by • committee of neatemfonelera, after
the incumbent of the parish had interdicted the Wien= nes
of that building to the clergy of his own cirri lir. Brook
used the liturgical form of prayer which bad ham prepared
for the use of the clergy, if they had beestaßowed to efltelate.
The words on the firm page of the petaled IM/fOO/0 Dada
the sanction of the Lord Bishop*, Leaties"—Aerre Wreck
out. Hr. Brock preached ea animated and impressive ser-
mon from the Ird and 4th venire of the 16th eartar of Si.
Paul's Ist Epistle to the Corinthians. No enileciien was
reads, nor was any announcement made as to who would be
the preacher next Sunday evening.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Boxing after taking out troops to Alexandria, will, it to
understood, ran between that port and Xaresilke, carrying
ties Wien mail, under the new arrangements.