The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-15 00:00:00

'DAY EVSNING, JULY 15, • 1857.

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

The Pays publishes the following paragraph in
contradiction of some very generally accredited
news from Kent:
"A private telegraphic despatch recently announced
that the Persian troops so far from evacuating Herat
mire occupied in restoring the fortifications of the
town. This news is entirely unfounded ; and we
are enabled, from precise information, to state what
Se facts are. When the peace was concluded it was
agreed that the evacuation of Bushire and Ilerat
I should take place simultaneously, but pending the
negotiations General Outran took possession of
Wobammerah, a place situated at the confluence of
the Tigris and the Euphrates; and it was decided
that this place should be evacuated in the first in-
stance. The English completed their evacuation of
Mohammereh on June 2, and Mirza-Mehemet Khan,
the commander-in-chief of the Persian troops, had
made arrangements for quitting Ilerat about the
middle of June, and handing over that city to the
Affghans."

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THE DELHI MISSION.

The following letter from Dr. Kay, Principal
of Bishop's College, admit* has barn received by the last
inn:
" Bishop's College, Calcutta, June 6.
" Dear Sir, —My last beet, note will have prepared yeti
for my present and tidings. The Delhl mistrten bas been
completely swept away. Humours to this effect were cur-
rent from the beginning of the outbreak, but we kept on
hoping that some of the members of the =sake might have
cusped.
" It is not, indeed, ebeolutely certain even now what hie
occurred. Yet even the uoat sanguine are compelled to be-
lieve that the Rey. Mr. Jennings and hie daughter, the Rev.
Mr. Hubbard, Mr. Pandys, and Chimmum Lail were all
killed. Captain Douglas, too, a warm supporter of the mission, shared their late. Of Ram Chunder and Leah* Koch
(the latter of whom left college only laid January) nothing
is said; they may therefore have escaped, though our hopes
are of the fauccat kind. Two native Chrietiana meeer&l in
secaping to Agra. One of them say. that be new Mr. Hub-
bard fall ; the other that he haw Mr. Sandy.' deed body.
"And Mr. Jeeksuit bee been spsred—' his life given him
for a prey !' Whet a deep interest will now attach itself in
his mind to every incident of his missionary life at Delhi I
Could you get him to tend us a abort naurative of anything
that would illustrate the history of the mission?
" Suety, be plow where they fell will henceforward be •
hallowed spot. May it prove the seed-plot of a future large
harvest of gouts, to be gathered out of that ignorant, Una-
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deal population:
"It must have been a fearful trial to encounter the wild,
unrelenting bigotry of the Mueslilawn crowd. But our
ee•und hope is that our dear brethren were supported by the
power of Ilan whom the first martyr 'saw standing at the
right hand of God.
" I will not say much of those whom Ood has taken
this solemn way to himself. You well know the un-
wearied diligence of the seizetary—l might almost Nay
founder of the inisttion, Mr. liubbard'a subdued energy, and
Mr. Sandy's eager and zealous activity, and Chimmum
Lall's honest integrity were known to all.
"I cannot, however, withhold from you a remarkable
testimony to the character of the mission which was sent to
me by the Biehop of Calcutta only a few days before the
outbreak. It it an ettract from the visitation report of
the Bishop of Madras (who, you know, went up to the run-
.lab at the beginning of the present year). Ile Says:
"Of the latter 111ii.1.11211, viz., those of the Society foe the
Tropteatiou of the Gospel, L have already expressed any
opinion that the one at Delhi is among the most hoWul and
vomiting of our Indian mittion fields. The intelligent and
well-informed converts, holding as they do, high and im-
pudent petitions iodeprndent of the minion ; the superior
refute of the school, with its 120 buys—among the best I
have visited in India, and the first-rate character for attain-
ments and devotedness of the missionaries and sehoolniamtere
are making an impression which is moving the whole of that
city of kings.'
" May we not arty, ' Before they were removed they had
this teAtimony, that they pleased God '
"I will not add anything at present on the general nature
of the crisis we are now in. Only let as feel sure that the
1444711—furions and ungovernable as it neems—ie intended to
work good fur this long unhappy country through liis mercy,
' Whn maarth the clouds Its chariots.
" dames of fire 110 ratoietanc
"I am, dear Sir, yours most sincerely,
W. KAY."

A VISIT TO A CHINA MERCHANT.—In a letter
from a gentleman ea hoard one of our vessels in the
China toes we reed —"Luring our stay at Singapore •
party of Englishmen, properly introduced. paid • visit to
one Ching I sing, the thief China merchant in the town, and
the owner of • very prominently situate hours just outside
the Chinese quarter. The party was received by the China-
man and his mother with great courtesy. Hie house
was simple in its furniture, but adorned with knicknacks
that would fill many an English fine lady with envy. Sweet-
meets and fruit were produced, and Ching Taing was so
obliging as to sty to one of the military that he wished us all
success, for we were going to defend his property. In the
middle of the elfin a eaten package with a sort of thatch
over it was brought in by two bearers and put down
on the fluor —it looked like an exaggerated handker-
chief gathered up at the corners and covered at the
knotted corners by a wicker dish cover. The guests thought
it was probably a dish of meat or a new course of
preserve., when the thatch wee removed and at the
bottom .4 the bundle was seen • small human figure,
squatted upon its haunches. The little thing gredu-
ally picked itself up, came out of its bundle, and
fell upon its knees before the master of the
home, putting up its hands in the posture of a sup-
pliant. The Chinamen rose from hie seat, waved hie band
with dignity, and the little lady areas. As she did so be said
to his European guests, My wife.' 'My wife' made a
slight salutation around, and then retiring into her hand-
kerchief again, was covered up, and was borne from the route
se elm entered. The guests were a little surprised to hear
aftermirde that this magnificent husband wet the chief of the
neent Chinose inaurrectionn, and that one of the guns upon
the Governor's-hill had been laid to command this particular
house."
A SPECI'LaTOtt."—A man, some time ago,
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darted en office in Paris, which he called the " Speculateur, '
for making Bourm operation., and he newel prospectuses
and advertieeinenta, announcing that he had discovered an
infallible plea of always gaining, so that persons confiding
their capital to hint might rely on teeing It doubled, tripled,
and even sometime. increased tenfold within a given time.
The '• Speculateur" seemed to prosper, for the man oeen-
, pied • splendidly-furnished apartment in the hue Vivienne,
gave grand parties, kept horses, had two or three dashing
mistress., rented bolts at the theatre, Le. • and the persons
who ounfidid their money to him seemed deo well satisfied,
OP he distributed amongst them front time to time consider-
able dividends. But the police deemed it advisable to
call on hies to give some explanetione respecting his opera-
tions. This summons so terrified him that he &ramped.
Ilia books having been examined, it turned out that he was
an impudent swindler, having appropriated the money en-
trusted to him to his own purpums and the name which he
had distributed se profits having really been taken frum the
capital. It turned out, too, that some of his dupe. had been
so weak as to confide to him such large moos as 21,0000.,
60,000fe., and even 200,000 fr. In taking to flight the man
maid off with him a eonsidereble amount in batik notes.
It was further diecovered that the inan did nut pare by his
real name, and that in 1812 ho had been condemned to
impri.onsuent for having. in conjunction with • noted female
swindler calling herself the Countess de Minuubo, robbed •
jeweller of a set of diamond..—Galignani.
MANDEL AND raw TIMES.—He was one of the
strong rem of the earth, ahe do what weaker men dream.
With hint the delight in this eaereire of creative power wee
bright, fertile, era-elem., trod unhesitating enough to super-
sede that 5nur1....1 solicitude as to results which belongs to
genius of • less robust order. In his day there was not so
much talk about art, ea art. The sifters, the analysers, the
sof periods, the adjusters of enteciee, the interpre-
t:Orr if
:hat wan never meant, had not, as yet, a sum We
life, or at least blossomed into pen and ink. Enthusiasm
was • little ignorant, and very well bred. Even
Horace Walpole—man of wit as he was,, prescient in
tams, in his associations courageous, in his friend-
ships real, however affected he might be in his dilettantism
and finiealitin of language—has scarcely left • word of 'tilt:
!met concerning painting or music worth reeding.
niehino was his divinity—Buononcini his prophet. Italian
music was one of the curiosities to be -looted for on the
"grand tour" by the Englishman, eupposing. that be was
nut afraid of being lashed fur his effeminacy in caring for
opera singers and their "fine stuff." In the eighteenth
enemy the ancient, practical, and sympathetic interest in
mow, which had diatingumhed an ember period of Eng-
land's history, was almost extinct. Thlettantoem has rupee-
laded honest love and participating knowledge; but it was a
Wring, net a lecturing, diktiontoon—a fully which
i minis-
tered no reel help to the creative artist, yet which was not
enough to mpede any ono bent on cseation, by suer-
s,
ot :It I misgivings or Ppeeiroas counsels. The age of Handel
was a bad time for a composer who stood in need of sym-
pathy, but it was not • bad time for a monarch who felt
within him the vigour of independence in despotism. There was
no one fur him to be compered with—there was no one capable
of • ailing him to amount. The necessities of his position
and of his nature impelled him to work cetinelesely, and if
he failed in one direction to try of another ; it be had not time
to perfect his own worn he would lay bands on them of
other men, and thrust them into his monde, as the first
Christian rhumb-lodides.. were glad to use fragments of
(link ornaments etripped from Pagan temples—as Shah-
mane permitted not petchee, but pas/ages, front
Plutarch end Ilollmehed to figure' almost la their
Morel Widmer. in the midst of the diction of his own
Imagination. With such an artist as this, the day's work
becomes the uppermost object; the means, a secondary one;
and the future fades into • distance too remote to excito
inunedeite curiosity or trouble. Handel knew that he had
an immortality within him; though deferred success tome-
timas mode him peevish, or iuiperfeet execution sometime*
betted his ear for a parsing moment. lie had rages, but
they were healthy, not morbid fits of wrath. Betwixt such
a gmnd, coarse, jovial, and stout nature as hie, and the more
dekly end sensitive organisation..' the productions of which
we are now perpetuslly invited tocoatemphite, compelled to
pity, and for den by compaseion to analyse, there to all
the gulf that lies betwixt truth and seaming, betwixt life and
disease, betwixt achievement and aspiration.— Edinburgh
Amine, new number.
THREE BOYS DROWNED.—On Sunday last, about
helf-past five o'clock in the evening, three boys were drowned
whin bathing, near Otley, Yorkshire. Two of the unfortu-
nate youths were bon hers, being eons of Mr. Thomas
Smith, of Ouiseley, cloth manufacturer, and aged rape,
elegy 16 and 14; thu other wan their inuein, 13 years of
sem end was a eon of Mr. Joeeph Smith, of the same place,
ill manufacturer and fanner. The deoemed, none of
Awn eseuld swim, were bathing in a reservoir between
Miley and ?demon, which is shallow at the adee, but vary
deep about the middle. The younger of the two brother,
net being aware of the danger, suddenly got into deep
water, end hie elder brother, in his endeavour to save him,
was also dragged in. Their cousin, who was using a rail fur
the purpose of learning to swim, bold it out, and both the
brothers mired It, but, unhappily, they pulled him in too.
The boys were not gm out until they had been in the water
twenty minutes, all attempt. to restore animation failed.
SWIARINO IN or MR. GABRIEL AS ALDERMAN
Or VINTRT WARM—Yesterday • special court was held to
swear In Mr. Thomas Gabriel. the new alderman for the
world Vintry. Alderman Gabriel was introduced by Mr.
Kennard, Mr. Higgs, and a great number of the most re.
epectable inhabitants of the ward.