The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-02 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR. MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON,. MAY 2.

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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam.
ship TWA. Captain Han, with the above mails in charge
of Lieut. Smith, R.N., has arrived; she brings 49 pas.
engem ; 4 boxes specie, value 1,7301.; one box silver tinsel,
value 721. ; precious stones, value 170/. ; also 610 boxes of
, 261 eases of egp, 437 half chests of oranges, and
potatoes
of sundries.
Her Majesty's ship Adventure, from Chins, with 27
officers and 52. i rank and 81e of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, left Vigo on the 27th for Spitbead.
The Portuguese despatch gun-boat Segni arrived at Li .
bon on the 26th ult. _

LISBON, Aran 27.
The term allowed to the Sisters of Charity for delivering
an inventory of their possessions expired yesterday' but
the pains and penalties laid down by law were not enforeed,
probably in consequence of the strong remonstrances of the
French minister.

The commandant and many of the officers of the Mind-
cipal Guard of Oporto have been dismissed, it is mid for
having embezzled the pay of the soldiers.
Mr. Jeremiah Meagher, British vim-consul, in collecting
stilawaiptions for the le= Famine Relief Fund, which flow
In freely.
Count Thomas has been dismissed from his poet of
minister to Brazil, Latino Coelho from that of director of
the government. Pasette and several others, parties high
in office, have also been dismissed, being now iu opposition
to the government.
The vine disease is again appearing.
Exchange on London at 110 days in quoted at 54 to Al:
Paris, 527 fr. 30c. ; Hamburg, 481; Amsterdam, 421; Gems.
525 ; Rentes Three per Cent., 474 ; Coupons, 471; le.
forted, 393 • Lisbon Bank, 577 mffreis ; Oporto Commer•
dal Bank, 256 milreis ; and Oporto Mercantile Bank, 256

Baron Niviins, so well known on the turf in
France, be. just been married at the Madeleine to Malls.
&sway. The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons officiated.
After the ceremony the couple left for Villebon. depute
meet of the Seineet-Oise, where the heron possesses •
chateau.

A Paris letter in the Inapentiance of Brussels
mays:—" The Emperor, I believe, has just settled the minces
in which he and the Empress will occupy their time dune
the vacation of the great political bodies. The Emperor,
after a short stay at the camp of Chalons, will visitwith the
Empress different departments of the south. His Majesty
will inspect the works of Saint-Saurcur and Baines, and
visit Bagnires-deMigorre, Bagnres-de-Litchon, and the
Landes of Lanmezan, where Martha' Niel proposes to es•
tablish, as at Chalons, a permanent camp. The position
selected is magnificent ; it is a plateau which computed' •
marvellous view of the Pic du Midi and the valley of IA
Neste. Their Majesties will terminate their tour at
Biarritz."

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The lifesaver de Nice says :—" The works of the
railway from Toulon to Nice are proceeding with a rapidity
that does honour to the Mediterranean Company. The
way is complete and ready to receive the rails in almost ail
the level portions ; in some, as at Muy and Cannes. rails
have even been laid down to hasten the completion of
the line."
At Bochum and Essen, places in Prussian West-
phalia, • large quantity of cast steel cannon are bang
made for the Dalian government. An engineer dicer from
Turin auperinteods the manufacture. At ono of the fac-
tories employing 900 men, five hundred more are required
immediately.
THE RIGHT SORT OT " HOLY FATHER."—n•
SiOrte commends to the notice of the ultntroontanists the
following, which has been circulating, in the form of •
handbill, through the workshops of Paris :- -"If the Holy
Father followed the exampleof Christ, sod showed us by lag
conduct that he was the chief disciple of his Master, meek
and lowly of heart ; if instead of talking about his pen-
toony and his Peter's pence he spoke to us of the heavenly
country and the treasures of faith and morality ; if like Ins
Master in the temple he drove the traders out of it that the
whole edifice might be filled only with works of punts
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charity, and pity ; if, lastly, he gave us the Holy Coalwee
fur err sole commandment, then it would be, who should
be first to welcome him ; then it would be repeaeo! •
thousand times, Behold the Pontiff we want! bong heel
the Holy Father.'"
THE MONUMENT TO WELLINGTON IN Livotroot.
—Yesterday (the anniversary of the late duke's birth) the
first Moos of the monument, for which funds were o°e
veers sines raised lo Liverpool, was laid by the mayor. S.
it. Graves, Esq. The situation chosen by the committee
is commanding and attractive, being about equidistant from
two of the finest load edifices—St. George's-hall and the
new Fres Lamy snows* efeolowl by Mr. W. Brown.