The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1857.

is sufficiently obvious. The great fault of the Com-
pany's Government in India, according to the writer
from whom we have quoted, has been its attempt to
adapt its modes of administration to the actual cir-
cumstances of society. Such a mode of procedure
has been deemed by our greatest statesmen, and by
our greatest philosophical exponents of the principles
of government, an indication of political sagacity.
The truth is that in no other way can
any country be wisely and justly governed.
If the object of the change about to be
proposed by Lord PALMERsrox in our Indian
policy is to be the abandonment of such
principles of action, we may rest assured that India
will be wretchedly misgoverned, and that there will
he a constant succession of insurrections. There is
little danger of our ever losing India by a mutiny of
&pops, but there is certain danger of oar losing it
by a high-handed Government of VERNON SMITIN.
It is sufficient at present to point out the atter
frivolity of the only reams which have u yet been
assigned for Lord PALMERSTON'S projected coup
d'etal. The consequences of such a measure for
India must hereafter be discussed in all their bearings.
But there are inevitable consequences of such a
change, even for England, which Englishmen will do
well to weigh carefully. By vesting the administra-
tion of India exclusively in the Imperial Govern-
ment an immense addition will be made to the patron-
age exercised by Ministers. The proposed transfer
of India to the Imperial Government would add im-
mensely to its power of political corruption. Again,
under the Company all classes have had the field of
employment in India opened to them. The Company's
civil and military services have been emphatically
middle class professions. If Cannon-row is to be
substituted for Leadenhall-street, the LAWRESCEs,
NEILLS, and Ntchoisoirs will have no chance in
future in competition with the Lte.txs and CAR-
DIGANS.

No time will, we are glad to state, be last in again
bringing the question of the admission of the Jews
into Parliament under tho consideration of the Le-
gislature, Lord John Russell having undertaken,
with the entire concurrence of Lord Palmerston, at

once to lay a Bill for the removal of this host relic of
religious intolerance on the table of the Ilouse of
Commons.

NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM
DISTRICT BA 'K.

NEWCASTLE, FRIDAY EVENING.
Since the suspension of the business of this Bank
was antinunted, on Thursday, there has been an
almost con.tant attendance of the principal share-
holders at the flank premises, The result is an im-
proved feeling respecting its affairs, particularly as
it is understood that some of the heaviest accounts
which were most dreaded are found to be amply
secured. A document expressing the read;ness of
numerous influential sharehoqiers to make an
immediate payment of It. per share, in order to
enable the directors to resume business, has been
signed to-day, and there seems every prospect of
such resumption being immidiately carried into
effect.

Irk Court.

WINDSOR, Pamir.

The French Ambassador and Countess I'crsigny ar-
rived yesterday on a visit, sod dined with bee Majesty la the
evening. Major-Gement the Ron. Charles end Mrs. Grey.
the Hon. Mrs Biddulph, and Sir James Clark, had the
honour of being included.
The Prince of Wake went to London in the afternoon of
yesterday, attended by Mr. Gibbs. His royal highness
honoured the Priscose's Theatre with his presence, remained
at Buckingham Palace all night, and rettuned to Windsor at
a quarter to three o'clock this afternoon.
The Queen and Prince Consort, accomyenled by the
Princess Royal and Prin. Frederick William of Prue,*
walked to the Rome Park this morning.

rririce Frederick William of Prussia visited the Duchene
of Orleans to-day at HO hmoud. His royal highness visited
the Dueness of Cambridge at Kew on Thursday.

A Cabinet Council wu held yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Trea-
sury, in Downing-street. The ministers present
were—Viscount Palmerston, tho Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby,
Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secre-
tary Labouchere, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith,
the Duke of Argyll, and the Right lion. M. T.
Baines.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. The appeal from Bengal, " Brindesoondery DOOM) v.
Rooderpersand Mookeers" (part head), was concluded ; and
an appeal from Benpl, " Choatorya Run Murdon Syn v.
Saheb Purhulad Syn," was commenced.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-Ace yesterday to
the Ooventor of Canada.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

The ifoniteur of yesterday contains an official
announcement that the session of the Corps Lees-
latif will be opened at tho Palais Bourbon on
Saturday (this day), at two o'clock in the afternoon,
when a communication is to be received from the
government.

The letter of our Perim correspondent, dated yes-
terday evening, had not arrived when we went to
press.

THE MONETARY CRISIS AT HAMBURG.

(IT 1193/SAILINI AND DBMS" TELEOZAIoII)

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HAMBURG, FRIDAY Enigma.
At en extraordinary meeting of the Civic Council
held to-day, it was unanimously agreed to accept the
proposition of the Senate, to create Exchequer Rills
to the amount of fifteen million marks banco, to be
lent on the security of imperishable merchandise,
state bonds, or railway shares.

HAMBURG, Nov. 25.
The Board of Commerce has posted up the follow-
ing notice to-day in the Exchange Rooms:
"It would greatly tend to allay the excitement, and
contribute to restore commercial confidence, if those
merchants who have already made their arrange-
ments for the immediate future, sod arc prepared to
meet bills of exchange on them falling due in the
next few days, would express their readiness to pay
such bills immediately, after deducting the disommt.
Those houses inclined to follow this suggestion are
requested to send their firms to the offices of the
Board of Commerce in the Exchange. Hamburg,
25th of November, 1837."

HAMBURG, Nov. 26.

In consequence of the energetic measures to rc-
here the violent pressure and restore public conf.-
dence, taken by the authorities and our large capi-
talists, the phyeiogonomy of the exchange was of a
much more cheerful and buoyant description to-day
than it has been for a long time, and I am happy to
be able to say there are no further stoppages to re-
port by this post.
I mentioned, in my letter of yesterday, the notice
posted up in the Exchange rooms by the Board of
Trade, inviting merchants prepared to take up their
bills immediately, though not due, to write their
name in a book opened for that purpose at the
offices of the Board. That measure was at-
tended with considerable success, and the following
firms have inscribed themselves as ready to pay
immediately their acceptances falling due up to the
middle of December Wile and Co., Adolph
J. Hertz and Soma, Weber and Shaer, G. H. Kaem-
meter and Sons, Nothebohm and Co , Hildebrandt
and Co., Martin M. Fraenkel, J. Berenberg Gosaler
and Co., Iteisig Sloman and Co., E. G. and T.
Cordes, Bruckner and Albers, Ross Vidal and Co.,
Hearts and Co., J. H. Nagel, the Agency of the
Bank of Brunswick, G. F. de Vow, Groner Albert
and Co., Schiller Brothers and Co., T. Ph. Ree, H.
C. Bock, Tiedgena and Robertson, David Jaques and
Co., and Bauer Brothers and Co.

But the most important part of my present letter is
to communicate the fact that, yesterday evening, a
deputation from the Bawd of Trade and the banks
and principal merchants, had an interview
with the Senate for the purpose of obtaining
their consent to a fresh measure, obviously
calculated to assist in restoring confidence
and relieving the pressure occasioned by the present
crisis. The proposal is to empower the Finance
Department to make advances on imperishable mer-
chandise,on state bonds and railway priority shares,
to the amount of fifty per cent. of their present
market value, by means of bonds bearing
interest and similar in principle to the
Exchequer-bills in England, to be guaran-
teed by the state, and not redeemable before the
lit of May next year. The deputation further de-
manded an immediate convocation of the Burger-
schaft to obtain their consent to the measure,
which is absolutely required, u it is a money
question. The Senate has suggested some altera-
tion, in the original plun, and the matter is still
under consideration, whilst the negotiations are being
carried on in the most energetic manner, and there
is every reason to expect that the Senate will con-
voke the Ilurgerachaft for Saturday.
When Mr. Charles Heine (the head of the emi-
nent firm of Solomon Heine) appeared on 'Change
to-day, he was received with three lusty and ener-
getic cheers from the assembled merchants, as
a mark of their respect and gratitude for the noble

manner in which he has come forward to assist
houses in temporary difficulties, and in proposing
and executing measures to neutralise the extraordi-
nary pressure of the crisis. Every head was unco-
vered, hats and handkerchiefs were waved in the air,
and the building resounded with loud cries of " Long
live Charles lleiuc, a pillar of the Hamburg Ex-
change, and the worthy son of his revered father !"
It is to be hoped that we have now seen the worst
of the crisis, and that better days are coming. But
ever since the great fire, in 1842, there has not been
so mach excitement on the Hamburg Exchange a.
during the last few days.

CHINA.

(►IoY OWL CIAX COARTATONDENT.)
HONG KONG, Ocr. 5.

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer, Norna,
leaves this day at 2 p.m., with a fall cargo of silk
from Shanghai, and will sail direct to Suez, calling
at Singapore and Galls. The mail steamer will not
leave until the 15th inst., so that it is quite possible
this will reach Europe some ten days earlier than
the regular mail.
We have had another typhoon, the severity of
which was chiefly felt in the neighbourhood of
Macao, extending nearly two hundred miles. More
than five hundred trading junks have been destroyed
and several hundreds of persons mast have perished.
The Norms, on her passage from Shanghai, had
a very narrow escape, having passed between Macao
and Hong Kong a great number of junks that were
total wrecks. All the vessels at Hong Kong pre-
pared for the typhoon; but, although the wind blew
fearfully for three days, the violence of the storm
kept off. All the steamers kept up steam, so as to
relieve their cables of the severe strain which they
otherwise would have sustained. The Ava also had
her steam up for the like reason, and some of the
shore folk were under the impression that Lord
Elgin intended to proceed in the Ave to the Peiho
river, but this was an error. His lordship
will not start for Pekin before the arrival of Baron
Le Oros, the French plenipotentiary ; and no
operations are expected to be undertaken against
Canton until large reinforcements of marines and
regular troops are received.
The small steamer Lily has returned from Cochin
China with intelligence that a Roman catholic bishop
bad actually been put to death, but that he was •
Spanish sod not a French prelate.
His Excellency Sir John &wring is at present at

Macao, on a short visit, and will return here in a
few days.
. . . . .

There is a delicate inquiry going on at the Rogue
fleet, connected with the melancholy misconduct of
one of the officers of the gun-boat Dove, which cir-
cumstance has occasioned an unusual gathering of
the naval forces in that quarter.
The Emperor steam-yacht, intended for the
government of Japan, arrived here three days ago,
having left England in April last; the gun-boats
Leven, Algerine, and Blaney, also arrived here two
or three days ago.

COMMERCIAL.
HONG KONG, Ocr. 6.
Here the stocks of manufactures are very light, and
prices show a further advance. Skirtings, grays, 6.12, sold
at 3 dole., and 7.4 at 3 dol.. 10c. ; cotton yarn, Noe. 16
and 24, have been sold at 30 dole. per picial; Turkq opium,
560 doll. nominal. Exchange, 4e. 11d. to de. on England;
on India, 224 r. to 228ir.; Sycee silver, 6 per cent. prem. ;
gold, 22 dub. 60c. par Mel. Tonnage is plentiful.
At Macao purchases of scented teas have been made at
rather higher rates; no country teas have been received.
From Amoy our dates are to the 29th ult. Teas had ad-
vanced in price. No sales of ahirtings reported. Cotton
yarn had been sold at 29 dole. 10e. for Na. 1G and 24.
Foo Chow advice' are to the 29th ult. The pries of tea
was somewhat lower, as foreigners were holding off. The
Fist scarcity of Foo Chow dollars was causing difficulties in
miffing for teas.
Shanghai advice' are to the 26th
Shirtiogs were rather lower. 6} catty grays quoted Ts. 2.3
to Ts. 2.3.6, peklries of all kinds only 33,000 pieces.

Lead quoted Ts. 6 to Ts. 6.2. .
Tesa.—Tho finest kinds of black teu were fully ea dear as
weviously, but the medium and good kinds were Ts. 1 to
Ts. 2 cheaper. The second mop of teas was arriving freely.
Settklasats ohm the 16th ult., 14 chops black tea and
39,000 packages green, the latter at about previous rates.
ea WWI! Mat leading for London and fivc for the United
Stet's.

--EN.—This find :and second qualities Tsatlee were en-
changed in prioe, but the lower sorts had given way Ts. 10
to 20. Tarawa§ were not mach inquired for, and had given
way. Sottlements, 3,000 bales. Arrivals, 46,800 bales, of
which 30.000 bales had been settled. Quotatione were
Teethe, No. 1.... T 5.470 0 Tayssaras, No. 1 Ta. 376 0
2 360 0
3.... 420 0 3 340 0
4 320 0
Inferior 370 90 Inferior 290 300
Exchange on Engisnd, 6e. bd. to 6s. 90. for six menthe'
sight bills, on India, 306 re. to 309 rs.
Freighta to London, 31. for tee, and 61. for milk.

ITALY.

THE TWO SICILIES.

(room Goa owx

)11tr.)

NAPLES, Nov.
The gore nment has invariably ntisxl pecmissicn
to visit our fellow-subjects in the prisons of
Salerno to Mr. Acting Consul Barber and to
all private individuals; but a few days since,
the Itevez end Mr. Pugh, chaplain of the British
Legation in this city, applied for such a per-
mission to the Minister of Grace and Justice. The
Minister being unable to grant it, referred Mr. Pugh
to his Majesty, and a request having been made ac-
cordingly, an order was sent in compliance with the
wish. On Wednesday last, therefore, Mr. Pagh
went down to Salerno, and was of course received
with due courtesy. His report is that he found the
men in good health, comfortably and cleanly housed,
and that they themselves made no complaint of ill-
treatment. They dwelt much upon their incar-
ceration as a great hardship, on their being
cut off from all communication with their
friends, and I believe on several other things which
may be regarded as national peculiarities. In strict
impartiality I tell you this, but admitting it all, it
does not touch the question at issue, which is that
British subjects have been imprisoned almost for
five months without trial; that they have been de-
nied all intercourse with their friends or country-
men ; that this privilege, not denied, and therefore
accorded by the law, has been refused even to the
only British authority in Naples, and at the special
request of the British government ; and that after
eleven of the crew have been liberated, the two Eng-
lish engineers are still detained, though the circum-
stances under which they were taken on board the
Cagliari were precisely similar. Such are the real
points at iodine, and not whether they dino well or
sleep well, or are clothed in clean linen.
Amongst the gossip of the city it is said that a
soldier lately, and most earnestly, requested permis-
sion to see his Majesty. The audience was granted,
but on condition that the man should be dressed in
the presence of his captain, who was to inspect him
from bead to foot, and be responsible for him.
Sir Charles Lyell, who has been to Sicily, and has
been examining many points of interest about
Naples, leaves to-day by the Marseilles steamer.
Since writing the above I have received other in-
formation connected with Mr. Pugh's visit to Sa-
lerno. As his visit was strictly professional, he ab-
stained from entering on subjects which another
person might have touched upon : still the conversa-
tion was unreserved and in English, and one of the
men said, that " they had met with much kind-
ness, and had plenty of what was needed, as the
Genoa steam-boat administration had sent them
money through the Procureur-General." I refer this
acknowledgment of kindness, therefore, to Sardinia.
In fact nothing has resulted from this visit to inva-
lidate my previous statements ; they are substan-
tially true, and the case as between the two go-
vernments remains just in the same position.
The captain of the Cagliari, who
.was present, and
is an old man, was greatly depressed, and wept
much.

Five per Ceuta, 1141 ; exchange on London, 616.

TUE NAwAB Or FCRROCEABAD.—A correspondent
of a contemporary writes:—" Public opinion seems to have
decided the question of the Nina Samb being a moot out-
rageous reoundrel. It seems questionable, however, whether
be is worse then his neighbour the Newab of Furroukabed,
whose ruffienion. I think, has hardly been Appreciated. The
Nana had, or pretended to have, a grievance; the Nawah
deem not even make that pretence. Brine year. ago the im-
maculate government of Oude tried to annex the Newith's
dominion., and to ignore his exietenoe ; our government
stepped in to hie &existence. He was brought up among the
English, professed far greater effection for them than ever
his rival in eroundreliern, the Nana, professed, and offered to
merry the daughter otn deceased English officer. The young
lady enbesquently married en °Meer who we. Atationed at
Fnttebghur at the time of the mutiny. The officer himself is
dead. Where the young ledy is may be stormieed, for her
name has not appeared in the list of sufferers but her mother
was one of tbree English ladies that this ferocious monster
wantonly blew away from his gone."
eltitiorlANlTT IS ISDIA.—When Nelson, in the
heat of the fight at Copenhagen, wished to send a totter to the
Crown Prince, some one offered him a wafer to fasten it.
" No," said he, calling for sealing-was, " it must not be
Imagined at such a moment en this we were ton flurried
to stand upon ceremony." Such ought to be the epirit
in which we deal with the mutineers Whatever effort
it may cost us to punish them, let it be made
to appear that we " take it in one stride," and
ere not Co flurried or discomposed as to forget our usual
nenchalente and rigid observance of law. Lit no think
rather of what is due to ourselves than of what is dee to
them, end so &ell we etrike the greatest terror into their
heartr, and estAblieh the surest safeguard Brined a recur-
rence of the like horrors. We cannot quit the subject with-
out entering a protest against the language which
is now too often Indulged in on the subject of
heathens in general. We now see, It is said, what
oven refitted heathens are at bottom, and how worthless is
human culture separate from Divine tenth. Worthless in
one MUM) no doubt It le; but we cannot allow that Nene
Sahib and the Princes of Delhi shall be clamed with Secretes
and Cicero as "refined bretthene." The difference of race
and circumstance is entirely overkoked by there who make
this resertion; and we sincerely hope that ore raisrionary
exertittne ea. the future will not be conducted in any inch
spirt. ot this.—Pau.
Itr.crturriNo.—Recruiting proceeds very favour-
ably. In etaturo and genera health sod appearance the
men are All that could be dentred. The distress In the
manors' hiring districts end the grippers in America have
no doubt driven many young men to take service, and they
will, we are of opinion, benefit by the exchange of ppereeccaannOne
labour fur a settled employment with pmapecuve advantages.
We wish come plan could be devised for sparing recruits
the usereiSeetion of rasing through the streets of Louden
and ether town in a state of tag and dirt. It must be ex-
oeedingly disagreeable to them to hear the observations
which proceed from the lips of uncouth pemengere as they
walk &lont the heels of the recruithog eart. Respect-
able you/ rather than encounter the to tive jokes al
the multitude, have been known to part with thek better
clothing and invest themselves in the coarsest attire Wore
going out with the sergeant. A slop dress of sawn kind
might be allowed by the government.—United Service
Garette. _ _

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