The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-05 00:00:00

THE OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aoocerr 4.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Indus, Captain Weeks, sailed hence to-day with the
mails for Gibraltar. the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden,
Ceylon, India (except Bombay), and China, together with
40 brat and 40 second-class passengers, amongst whom 'are
Assistant-Surgeon Thornton, Captain Alexander, Captain
Moratta, Lieutenant Paske, Surgeon•Majm Johtudone,
Ecsign Grant, and Lieut. Burke, BIC. The Indus took
on freight 358 boxes specie value 98,5451. 10s. Bd.,
con,ci, for thofollomor
,to —viz., Ceylon, sapphires
3501. ; artillery, 8/. ; gold corn, 91119. 10s.
silver co 15e. ; gold thread, jewellery, Ix., 9881. 10a. ;
Went* her silver, EOM. ; sovereigns, 1,4101. ; meta*,
jewellery, kc., 4151. ; Penang, dollars, 4001. ; Singapore, dol.
Lim, 2,600/. ; sovereigns, 5,0001. ; sundries, N. 361. H.
kong, dollars, 29,7611. 1.26. Bd. • seed, pearls, &a, 1,8001.0ar •
Foochow, dollars, 5,0001. ; watches, kc., 2151. • Shanghai
dollars, 33,068/. ; silver coin, 501. ; watches, 2581. • Alex-
andria, sovereigns, 3,0001. ; jewellery, kc., 94.1. The Indus
also took a full cargo of general merchandise. The Union
Corepenv's mail steamship Cambrian. Captain Strata,
will mil hence to-morrow for the Cape of Good Hope, Port
Natal, Ise. She will call at Plymouth to receive her mails.

Poor Orrtcs Sarno Balias.—The Postmaster-
Gemmed has taken the first public step towards the estab-
lishmeet at the Post Office Savings Banks, under the 24 Vic.
cap. 14, by the appointment of the comptroller of that de-
partment. The gentleman selected to fill this office is Mr.
Chetwynd, who for more than twenty years has been en.
gaged in the Money Order Office, and who is known not
only to have taken a very active part in the management
of the Money Order Ofline, but also to have rendered mate-
rial assistance in arranging, in conjunction with Mr. Scuda-
more, the receiver and accountant-general of the Post Office,
the details of the plan on which these banks are to be con-
ducted.
CATTLI MARXIST STATISTILII.—The tolls charged
for tatty in the Metropolitan °Attie Market are as follows ;
neep per seem, 4d.; Waste per heed, 2.1.; calves per head,
ld.; homes, 6d.; donkeys, 3d.; pigs per more, tkl. In 1858
the number of each on which toll was paid was as fellows :
keep, 1,400,150; bea5t5,280,275 ; calms, 35,644; p
ip.
31,340 . • horses, 9,468 ; donkeys 1,903. The dues for
nerviesdoes ballade pens for donkeys,
calves, and pigs, Is.
sick ; ails, to which beasts, calves, sad bones are tied,
user. The duty on hay is 6d. per load ; each entry of
ask, ld. The duty on straw is ld. per lowh and the entry
.al sale ld. The • amount received for tolls in 1858 was
4,006/. 2s. 4d. ; for due., 7,2471. 4s. 44d. In the
working department the officers of the market are ap-
policed and paid by the corporation. The clerk of the
market is Mr. William Shank, whose salary is 3001. per
annum. Previous to the removal of the market, Mr.
Shank was clerk and collector at Smithfield ; and be con-
tinued till July, 1859, to receive the tolls on hay and
straw at Smithfield Market ; "to which." as remarked in
the report of the Markets Improvement Committee, " be
basset been able to give the same amount of care and atter'.
tics that he did when the execution of his duties was con-
hoed eutirely to Smithfield." The tolls received upon hay
and straw during the three years preceding the removal of
the cattle market amounted, upon an average, to 1651. Its.
per &Lamm ; during the three years immediately sumeading
the removal the tolls amounted, upon an average, to ,
111/. 2s. per annum ; showieg a decrease of 541. 9s. per
annum. It is but right to add, however, that the tolls at
Smithfield have increased beyond the last named avenge,
though sotto= amount sufficient to entitle Smithfield tol
considered a contributory to the corporation revenue—City
Press

ACCIDENT ON TAN LANCASHUIZ AND YONNANIRE
BAILWAT.—ShortIy after 12 o'clock on Friday morning an
accident took place at Horbury junetioa, on the Lana-
shire and Yorkshire Railway, of a rather serious
character, though fortunately it was unattended with
loss of life. Shortly before the time named a coal
train ward down the line in the direction of
Mirfield, and oa reaching that part between 'for-
bury junction and Horbury -bridge the bottom door of
one of the waggons dropped, and a large quantity of
lumpy coal fell as the -line. Close after this train
followed a luggage Main drawn by one of those
old-fashioned ovum that, have their cylinders but
a few Mabee from the ground. The cylinders gruck the
coal, and the engine was thereby thrown off the line. The
driver and stoker were luckily on the engine at the time,
modes it ran it left the rails and went into a garden, and
separated itself from the tender. It, however, retained its
upright position ; not so the tender, for it was overturned
on Irving the line, and was closely followed by come
heavgy-laden trucks. One magma was completely smashed,
and the tender was very much injured. Five other waggons
were partly broken, and many of the others were thrown
off the rar3. Both lines were completely blocked up ; bat a
' number of men having been telegraphed for, they careened
cleared away the debris. The down line was cleared for
traffic at 4.15 p.m., but the other was not opened tall after
six o'clock.
Dramizzierlve FIRM. —Ou Saturday morning,
between the hours of five and nix, a most disastrous fire
broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Herbert, archi-
tectural modeller, 242, Euston-road. The engines of the
London Bripile arrived in rapid succession, and soon got to
work, but despite their efforts the premises were entirely
destroyed, and the two adjoining houses cozudderably
by fire sod water. 'The cause is unknown.--On
Stilt:s morning a fire broke out on the extensive pre-
mises Mr. Richam, Lanolown-villa, Peahen.. The dis-
covery was made by some strangers, and nomengem Inn
despatched to Holborn status; as well as to Fernagdea
ob.*" the imMoss from which promptly &Waded, but the
firs wes sot =Wood till nearly the whole of the premium
WWI deettoyed sad comiderabile damp some to the aijoia•
ie. helms.

ETWQPENCE

=PROS PROM PARIS.

WWI 61. .014

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

There is nothing new about the De Goyou and
De Merode business, which, however, still continues
to be the leading subject of political conversation.
We shall soon hear what effect has been produced
in Rome by the publicity given in Paris to the
scandal. Meanwhile, it is to be borne in mind
tkat there are, doubtless, two aides to thii ques-
tion,aud hitherto Edrope has been occupied ex-
clusively with General de Goyou's version of it.
We don't yet know what Mgr. de Merode said to
him to deserve to have his ears boxed. As to the
prospect of De Merode's resignation, it seems to me
probable that since the court of Rome has refused
all Satisfaction during the last three week., it will
be more obstinate still when it comes to know of
the ea. parte statement
The Prune says, as "latest news," that orders
have been sent from Paris to countermand the
preparations made at the Chalons camp for the
reception of the King of Prussia. This maims
the sews I sent yesterday. •
M. Chemin, a young journsMst whoarnatae Was
much upon the tapis a few weeks ago, on account
of M. de Persigny having refused him permission
to found a journal, was tried at Mullioun yester-
day on a charge of eolportage, that terri-
ble offence in the eyes of the present govern-
ment, which consists in making known any-
thing printed without authorization. The
corpus delieti consisted in the fact of some
political pamphlets having been found by Custom-
house officers in his carpet bag, as be was crossing
the frontier on his return from a tour in Switzer-
land. M. Louis Chauffeur, a provincial advocate
of Alsace, has had the honour of initiating a legal
argument at least as sound as ingenious, which
never occurred to any advocate in Paris, and which
obtained the acquittal of his client. What (he
said) is colportage 1 The word is derived from
porter au cot—carrying things round the neck with
the intention of exposing them for sale. 'The
courts have decided—and he did not dispute
the decision—that distributing writings, although
nor for money, came within the purview of
the legislation in question. But he argued
tat the mere fact of being in possession of
pamphlets in a carpet bag did not in any way
amount to co/portage. He showed, moreover, that
there was a special decree of the Emperor against
"introducing" newspapers into France, which,
when contrasted with the decree relative to
pamphlets, showed that the mere introduction of
the latter, as distinguished from their dis-
tribution, was not a legal offence. The
Mulhouse Court, after taking time to consider,
adopted the advocate's view, and pronounced a
verdict of acquittal. If this law be good, and I
think it very difficult to deny it, Madame
Gouverneur, the wife of the Thike d'Aumale's
valet, ought to have been acquittal in Paris last
week, for she was indicted for the offence of cot-
portage of the duke's pamphlet, and the only thing
proved against her was that ten copies were found
by the Custom-house officers, at Boulogne, in her
luggage.

PARIS, SATUBDAT EVIOCING.
The Emperor, Empress, the Imperial Prime and
the whole court, arrived at the Tuileries 'from
Fontainebleau at two this afternoon. A council of
ministers was held at three, and at four the Empe-
ror went to inspect the Elysee: palace, the extensive
repairs of which are now nearly finished. The court
will reside there this winter. At 5 o'clock their
Majesties and the Prince left for St. Cloud.
Immediately after the council of ministers broke
up there were rumours of some great official trans-
formations as being likely to take place soon. The
office of Arch-Chancellor of the Empire is, it is said,
. _ . .

. .
I to be revived in favour of Count de Moray, who in
that case would be succeeded by M. Baroche as
President of the Corps Legislatif, M. Rouher
becoming President of the Council of State. As a
further consequential arrangement M. de Forcade
would become Minister of Public Works, and M.
Fmk' would ramose his old post as Minister of
Finance. I can only give this news as official
gossip, the realisation of which must be considered
very doubtful. It generally happens that as the
15th of August approaches there are a good many
schemes broached which ultimately come to no-
thing.
At St. Cloud the Emperor will be very busy for
the next day or two iu preparing for the reception
of his guest, the King of Sweden, who is expected
on Monday or Tuesday. Five or six days is talked
of as the period of his stay.
An important piece of news current this evening
is that after all the King of Prussia will not come
to the Chalons camp. If so he must have recently
changed his mind, for it is quite certain that at one
time the visit was contemplated.
The Bourse was again decidedly buoyant. Rente
rose 15c. for cash and se. for account, closing at
138.10 and 88.25. There was a little weakness at
the close' the quotation for time having been at one
moment 88.35. Mobilier rose 11.25. The Eastern
Railway rose 8.75 ; Lyons, 7.50 ; Northern and
Orleans, bfr. each ; and Southern and Western,
1.25 each.

The SitWe and the Courrier de Saint Quentin have
both received long cumnissicries, correcting their
statements of the circumstances under which a
protestant was lately arrested at Fresnuy-le-Grand
in consequence of a disturbazustat a Roman catholic
procession. The journals represented that the pro-
testant was struck (by a soldier) in order to make
him take off his hat to the Host, a proceeding
which he considered an act of idolatry, and then
arrested for defending himself ; whereas the
government version of the story is that be need-
lessly and insultingly cruised the line of the pro-
cession when there wail plenty of room for him to
go another way, and that he was arrested and
punished, not for insulting the catholic religion,
but for resisting a military force in the execution
of its duty. The Frew observes that, which-
ever of the above narratives may be the
true one, it is plain that the scene which
led to the coniniu*ues would not have
occurred if the law which prohibits Roman catholic
processions in towns where there are places of wor-
ship belouging to any other religion was put in
force. Now in Frmnoy-le-Grand there is a protestant
church with a congregation of 300. The law against
processions is obeyed in Paris, but within the last
few years the clergy have broken it in the provinces
whenever the laxity or complicity of the local au-
thorities gave them an opportunity. It is time that
the Emperor should see to the law being executed
universally. Roman catholics can make no com-
plaint of intolerance when they are protected by
law in their temples. If they take possession of
the street, they assume a precedence of their reli-
gion over others which the laws of France do nut
recognise.
Father Venture died at Versailles yesterday. His
funeral is announced for Monday.

CATOTAL Pisani. —Mr. Martin, the founder of
the National Choral Society. has invited the mendbera of his
choir to aasemble at the Crystal Palace today l 3 Y), for
the puny., of giving an exporhnestal concert iathegrounds.
of chord marcher sad eche part-seap, .10 addition to a per-
formance of some d thck ranipapalar pieces 4:lathe orchestra
meted for the Gni horse mama