The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY E'

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lives ingleseeLia lie emer-
gency noir places, it is to be rbsreel, weld
not be supplied. The vales of medical mes, arising
from their scarcity, was remarkably exemplified by
the fact that • sages as baud one of her Ma-
jesty's ships, wile was going. home ea leave, was
offered 1001. a month to remain in tie blend on the
day before the latest packet sailed. There absolutely
1 mem to be no perilous to disponi. drugs, if
thees were any drugs to dispense. Bat even ca-
limmelf that which is in most common use in the
imbed pre lee, is so sadly wanting, that a gentleman
bad been despatched to St. Thomas's to try to put-
abase 60 lbs. weight of it. Opium, quinine, and
wear" were also mid-rely wanting. A gent, fig
ems d dime will most likely ere this bus ells
rtl
tabled from the United Sates, but not en I,
anything like the extent in which they are red.
We had hoped, in the interval which bee elapsed
sines our article of Saturday, that we should have
received some intimation that the authorities
d the colonial department had taken some
assures for the immediate assistance of thus unfor-
meat. subjects of Great Britalo. Among the daily ,
Papers the colonial department has a morning and sa 1
leveeing organ. We have looked to both these papers '
in vain for the slightest allusion to this afflicting sub-
' feet. They have been absolutely silent; net do we
hear from any quarter that any step whatever bee i
been taken by Dowsing-street to mitigate the I
dreadful fate of those who are placed under their
care. In another quarter we have heard of a move-1
ment which looks as if some parties were shamed a,
their position, and were anxious to shift the respemible 11
lities. It appeara,from an announcement in the mamas,
of another paper, that two of the island odium sir
Ismaili are in this country with their families; us Isis j
illgultssiesthan the Bishopaad Arcbdeaconof JamaiCes I
Tame were facts quite unexpected and quite ewe
I es. May we venture to ask, what do they do ewe
The post of danger, we should have thought,
have been them reverend divines' post of duty. At',
such a time, bow must not their absence from the
colony be 'felt ? When thousands of the people
committed to their are are dying—when every exer-
tion is requisite to save life—when the clergy are
required to be particularly active in • scene which
Providence has permitted to be thus horribly afflicted;
—how comes it that the two most responsible spirited
officers of Jamaica, Bishop Semmes and Archdeacon,
Snit% are found vegetating in a London suburb? Is
this what they are paid for ? Is this what either the
people of England, who pay them, or the people of
Jamaica, whom they are appointed to serve, have a
right to expect at their hands?
We might go on further to observe upon this sur-
prising circumstance, bet, reserving it for another
occasioa, we prefer to turn to-dav to another topic.
This is Christmas-eve, a day when every heart is I
open to the cry of distress—when every hand is ready
is the cause of mercy, for the sake and in the name of I
Him front whom we all expect it. Let not this day
pus without something being done
, for them
unhappy children of oar nation. M e have many
sad grievous sins to answer for on their account :
let it not be added to the catalogue that we left them
to perish from pestilence and famine. We appeal to
the citizens of London —we verily believe the most
charitable people of any city in the world. Their
LORD MAYOR, a man remarkable for the kindliness
of his sympathies and dispositions, will, we are lure,
willingly open the doors of the Mansion-house for any
movement on their behalf. Their merchant princes—
the West India merchants especially—cannot need
exhortation to form themselves into a committee for
the relief of the island of Jamaica. Do let us be en-
abled to satisfy the public to-morrow—Christmas—
morning, that medical relief and succour shall be sent
to the colony without a moment's unnecessary delay.
It requires only a little energy to-day to organise a
machinery which will receive for this purpose contri-
butions amply sufficient to do all that the emergency
requires.
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GERMANY.

BERLIN, Dec 20.

The Gazette of to-night at law. below; the long-
expected appointments which complete the ministry,
and which are already known to yoo. Mautenffel is
appointed President and Minister for Foreign
Affeirs; Von Hauser Minister of Public 'Worship,
and Von Westphalen Minister of the Interior.
The Ousetfe also contains a royal order accepting
the resignation of Ladenberg, and thanking him
for the highly valued services rendered to
the King and the country in times of the
greatest difficulty. As I mentioned more than a week
-ago Baron Ladenberg is appointed president of the
chief chamber of audits, a lucrative and easy post.
Herr von Westphalen was, until summoned to Berlin,
president of Liegnits. In politics he is a strong con-
sanative with a slight leaning to the new Prussian
party. The remainir g members of the ministry are
Vas der Heydt, Commerce; Simone, Justice; Rabe,
Fiume ; and Stockhausen, War.
Herr von Manteuffel leaves Berlin fee Dresden on
Sunday morning, and it is undentood that the con-
ferences are to commence on Monday. Manteuffel
will, most probably, remain some time in Dresden,
and, it there appears any probability of his carrying
his plans, will remain until the end. It is very wise
on the part of the minister, for it sets aside the pm
sibility of other influences interfering in his absence.
MI public, or at least the small portion, who think
et all on the subject, 10. k forward to the ap-
prea•aieg conferences with anything but hope.
Mast of them consider that the differences
between the respective parties will be so
groat that all hope of any liberal or time-serving
attention in the constitution of Vs Bend will be
destroyed, and that the conferences will terminate in
the restoration of the Bundestag in its former cha-
racter. Nobody knows what the exact details of
Manteuffers plans are, nor what kind of an arrange-
ment was some to at Olmiits between him and
Behwarxenberg, and therefore it is idle to speculate ;
bat it cannot be denied that experience coneemns
bop* sad justifies fear in the minds of all liberal men.
Letters from Vienna now amen that the admission
ef it. 'Miele of the Austrian provinces into the con-
federation will sot be proposed, but merely a suffi-
dent reties to equalise the power of Austria to that
dreads. The province of Galicia is mentioned for
ebb torpor. The incorporation of Posen and Prus-
sian reload. in 1848, increased the extent of Prussian
himilleiss within the confederation, and :therefore
=
will demand a corresponding increase of her
territories. The commercial relations of
Germany will probably form one of the topics of dis-
mission, and it is expected that Austria will propose
the genie plans for a commercial system which Ohs
put forth last year. It is even stated that a provi-
sional arrangement will be proposed which is to last
anti! 1868. when the definitive arrangements are to
ease into existence.

ITALY.
ROME!. _

We regret, nye the Yovrea---ides Dads, to have to
announce new and strange vexatious directed against
the Jews of Rome by the pontifical government. A
letter which we have this day received, dated Rome,
December 12, informs os that one of the most re-
rgermembers of the Israelitish community, M.
iad onsao, raw on the 6.b his house invade:l by the
agents of polios, and was nearly being dragged off to
prison as guilty for having received into his house a
poor Christian woman, aged 60, without resource,
and whom he had employed to get up the linen of the
family. M.Tagliscosio only escaped the humiliation
and suffering of the prison by the devotion of his son,
who constituted himself prisoner in the room of hie
father, and has been condemned to a vicarious impri-
sonment of ten days. On the intervention of the
chiefs. of the braelitish community (M. Tagliacozzo
himself is a member of the coesistory), the Cardinal
Vicar has deigned to reduce the duration of the im-
prisonment endured by the son in place of
.his father,
and on the 11th M. Taglianozzo was set at liberty.
Such see the facts as they are communicated to us,
and which need no long emnsentary that the public
I may form a jest judgment of their value.

NO DAT NAIL' will be sent from or received at
tie Gemara Post-edlas teoworrow (Cbrietrou day) to and
boa obese is the Nora Heat, Beath Western, and Ea-
ters Nestles Railways. The mail pada on thaw lines,
who live la the Gantry, will be allowed to leave town this
Tortiis order that they ae7 be obis to spud Chriewam.
lla their familia.